ELECTION SPECIAL: Historians Discuss
Zoom WebinarWe face the most critical election of our lifetimes. That is often said. This year it seems as true as ever. Political historians Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer, both of […]
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Critical American Elections
Zoom WebinarCritical Elections in American History. Is 2020 One? Politicians claim every election is ‘the most important of our lifetime,’ but 2020 feels like it just might be. Yet Americans have faced big choices before. Professor Jeffrey A. Engel will explore the politics and drama of critical votes that seemed to their era unusually important, tracing […]
The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution
Zoom WebinarThe US Constitution never established a presidential cabinet―the delegates to the Constitutional Convention explicitly rejected the idea. So how did George Washington create one of the most powerful bodies in the federal government? On November 26, 1791, George Washington convened his department secretaries―Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Knox, and Edmund Randolph―for the first cabinet meeting. […]
Statecraft: The Bush 41 Team
Zoom WebinarJoin the Miller Center and Southern Methodist University for a special screening of the director's cut of the VPM/Miller Center documentary "Statecraft: The Bush 41 Team." A discussion will immediately follow the screening featuring two experts from the film: Jeffrey A. Engel, director of SMU's Center for Presidential History, and Barbara Perry, director of presidential […]
Mapping the Gay Guides: Using Digital History to Explore LGBTQ Travel Guides, 1965-1980
Zoom WebinarWhile on his frequent business trips around the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Bob Damron wanted to find bars and other locales to meet other men […]
Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home
A gripping and true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South—and their daring attempt to escape and bring their […]
(POSTPONED, WILL RESCHEDULE) The Middle Way: How Three Presidents Shaped America’s Role in the World
UPDATE, 1/8/2021: With regret, we must postpone this upcoming webinar with Derek Chollet. Derek is deeply involved with the foreign policy transition team for President-Elect Biden and can no longer […]
A Teach-In on President Trump & the Current Constitutional Crisis
Regardless of where you fall on the political spectrum, two things are clear: we are in an unprecedented constitutional crisis, and President Trump is at the center of it. In […]
Unprecedented (Again): Historical Perspectives on the Election of 2020 and Beyond
A Preview Interview with Thomas Balcerski: How will the election of 2020 be remembered by history? What, if any, are its historical antecedents, and to what degree is it unprecedented? […]
You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington
A new biography published about George Washington is unlike any other. Described as “form-shattering and myth-crushing,” “keen and savage,” as well as “spirited and engaging,” historian Alexis Coe’s “You Never […]