CPH Assistant Director for Advancement and Partnerships Ashlyn W. Hand (Southern Methodist University) joins the CPH to discuss her new book Prioritizing Faith: International Religious Freedom and U.S. Foreign Policy. This […]
Professor, and 2025 CPH Book Prize Award-winner, Susan Gaunt Stearns (University of Mississippi) joins the CPH to discuss her new book Empire of Commerce: The Closing of the Mississippi and […]
What are the limits of presidential power? Listen and Decide. As questions surrounding executive power dominate the news cycle, many Americans have been left wanting to learn more. CPH can […]
Professor Hunter M. Hampton (Stephen F. Austin State University) joins the CPH to discuss his new book The Gridiron Gospel: Faith and Football in 20th Century America. This event will be hosted by the Center for Presidential History and Clements Center for Southwest Studies. From the game’s early days, college football and a strain of muscular Christianity […]
Professor Ronald Angelo Johnson (Baylor University) joins the CPH to discuss his new book Entangled Alliances: Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy During the American Revolution. In Entangled Alliances Ronald Angelo Johnson brings to light the fascinating story of American patriots and rebels from Saint-Domingue (later Haiti) allying against European tyranny. The book is a reinterpretation of […]
Professor and former CPH Postdoctoral Fellow Paul M. Renfro (Florida State University) joins the CPH to discuss his new book The Life and Death of Ryan White: AIDS and Inequality in America. This event will be hosted by the Center for Presidential History along with the Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute and the SMU Women and Gender […]
Professor Katherine C. Epstein (Rutgers University-Camden) joins the CPH to speak about her new book Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State. At the beginning of the twentieth century, two British inventors, Arthur Pollen and Harold Isherwood, became fascinated by a major military question: how to aim the big guns of battleships. […]
