Category: Public Seminar

The Intellectual Integrity of Our Spaces: The Proposed Boycott of International Academic Conferences

February 3, 2017

On January 30, the American Historical Association (AHA) joined numerous scholarly organizations in condemning Donald Trump’s executive order of January 27, 2017. This act closed the United States border to travelers, migrants and refugees from seven countries, including many legal residents, for ninety days. Although spokespeople for the Trump administration deny this interpretation, the order is generally understood … More The Intellectual Integrity of Our Spaces: The Proposed Boycott of International Academic Conferences

Historians Should Care About Secretary Clinton’s Emails

July 6, 2016

Yesterday FBI Director James Comey released the report on Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server during her time as Secretary of State. The email habits on Clinton’s staff were “extremely careless,” Comey noted, but did not reach the threshold for seeking an indictment against Clinton.  As CNN reported: Comey said of the 30,000 emails that … More Historians Should Care About Secretary Clinton’s Emails

Phyllis Schlafly and Donald Trump: not-so-strange bedfellows

April 18, 2016

Phyllis Schlafly’s conservative manifesto, A Choice, Not an Echo, has a quote on the cover that is as fresh today as when it was first published in May 1964. Under a picture of the author (in perfectly styled hair and two strings of pearls) a caption promises to tell “the inside story of how American … More Phyllis Schlafly and Donald Trump: not-so-strange bedfellows