Joseph Smith for President: The Prophet, the Assassin, and the Fight for American Religious Freedom

Dallas Hall 306 (McCord Auditorium) 3225 University Blvd, Dallas, TX, United States

  A Preview Interview with Dr. Spencer McBride The story of Joseph Smith's presidential campaign and how his calls for religious freedom through constitutional reform are essential to understanding how the American political system evolved to what we know today. Join us as author and historian Spencer McBride discusses one of the most important elections […]

Charlie Brown’s America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts

Dallas Hall 306 (McCord Auditorium) 3225 University Blvd, Dallas, TX, United States

   A Preview Interview with Blake Ball   Despite—or because of—its huge popular culture status, Peanuts enabled cartoonist Charles Schulz to offer political commentary on the most controversial topics of […]

Asian Americans – Documentary Screening

Owen Arts Center, B600 6101 Bishop Avenue, Dallas, TX, United States

The Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute Asian Studies & Asian American Experiences Research Cluster and the Center for Presidential History present a documentary screening and open discussion of the award-winning documentary […]

Paper Trails: The U.S. Post and the Making of the American West

Dallas Hall 306 (McCord Auditorium) 3225 University Blvd, Dallas, TX, United States

   A Preview Interview with Dr. Cameron Blevins A groundbreaking history of how the U.S. Post made the nineteenth-century American West. Join us as historian Cameron Blevins discusses his latest […]

LIVE Finale! – Presidential Crises Podcast

Zoom Webinar

With political gridlock in Washington DC at an all time high, government shutdowns--or the threat of them--have become a routine occurrence. National parks close. Federal paychecks stop going out. The […]

The Walls Within: The Politics of Immigration in Modern America

Dallas Hall 306 (McCord Auditorium) 3225 University Blvd, Dallas, TX, United States

  Join us as historian Sarah Coleman recounts the numerous battles over US immigrants’ rights since 1965―and how these conflicts reshaped access to education, employment, civil liberties, and more. The […]

On Juneteenth

Mack Ballroom (Umphrey Lee Center, SMU) 3300 Dyer St, Dallas, TX

Join us as the essential, sweeping story of Juneteenth’s integral importance to American history, is told by a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and Texas native, Annette Gordon-Reed. Weaving together American history, […]

Japanese American Incarceration: The Camps and Coerced Labor during World War II

Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum 300 N Houston St, Dallas, TX, United States

A Preview Interview with Dr. Stephanie Hinnershitz Join us as author Stephanie D. Hinnershitz recasts the forced removal and incarceration of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II as […]