Please join us for a Washington History Seminar with Thavolia Glymph on The Woman’s Fight: The Civil War’s Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation
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President Trump ends up in Walter Reed Medical Center, incapacitated by coronavirus. His cabinet invokes the 25th Amendment, thereby transferring all powers and duties of the presidency to the vice president. What should the new Acting President Mike Pence do?
Apply nowJob no: 497814
Work type: Instructional Faculty – Tenured/Tenure-Track
Location: Fresno
Categories: Unit 3 - CFA - California Faculty Association, Faculty - Letters/Humanities, Faculty - Social Sciences, Probationary, Tenured/Tenure-Track, Full Time
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On-Line Global Research Tactics for the Twenty-First Century:
The Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) Digital Archive and Related Online Resources
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Please join us for a Washington History Seminar Panel with G. John Ikenberry on A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order |
Subject Line: Invitation to join October 23 meeting with new SHAFR Task Force on Advocacy
Dear Members of SHAFR:
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Politics and Prose Webinar on Martin Sherwin's book Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1945-1962 |
On-Line Global Research Tactics for the Twenty-First Century:
UVA | Miller Center
The presidency and endless war
William Antholis, Gina Bennett, Ashley Deeks, Eric Edelman, Seth G. Jones, Carter Malkasian , Stephen D. Mull, Aaron O’Connell, Anne Patterson, William B. Quandt, Marc Selverstone, Allan C. Stam, Stephen Wertheim, Katie Bo Williams, Brantly Womack, Philip Zelikow, Rebecca Zimmerman
Thursday, October 01, 2020
9:00AM - 1:00PM (EDT)
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Please join us for a Washington History Seminar Panel with Frederik Logevall on JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956 |
Duke University
Endowed Chair Full Professorship in Modern Diplomatic History
Endowed Chair in Modern Diplomatic or Military History: Duke University. The Sanford School of Public Policy invites applications for the inaugural Bruce Kuniholm Chair in History and Public Policy. This search is for an outstanding senior scholar in the field of modern diplomatic or military history whose work engages contemporary policy questions, who will help build additional connections between Sanford and the History Department, and who could help build the school’s programs in national security.
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Please join us for the W.R. Louis Washington History Seminar Panel with Thomas A. Schwartz on Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography |
In June 2020, SHAFR Council decided that next year’s meeting would operate both onsite and online. The onsite conference will be smaller—recognizing the contingencies of the current public health situation—but registrants will be able to access and participate in the conference from offsite locations. The resulting event will be both local and delocalized, synchronous and asynchronous.
The Stuart L. Bernath Scholarly Article Prize Committee—Tehila Sasson, Daniel Bessner and Melani McAlister—is pleased to announce that Bathsheba Demuth (Brown University) is this year’s recipient of the Bernath Article Prize. Demuth's article, entitled “The Walrus and the Bureaucrat: Energy, Ecology, and Making the State in the Russian and American Arctic, 1870–1950,” appeared in the April 2019 issue of the American Historical Review. This deeply researched and creatively conceived article uses the case of the Pacific walrus to argue that in the first half of the twentieth century, the environmental conditions of the Bering Strait challenged both the American and Russian states. Demuth follows the story of how the opposed ideological projects of the two countries--one devoted to free markets and the other to communal labor—both aimed to increase production and, in doing so, to make capitalist citizens of indigenous Alaskan Yupik and Inupiat and to make communist citizens of indigenous Chukotkan Chukchi and Yupik. In making this comparison, Demuth utilizes an expansive source base to denaturalize the story of American exceptionalism. Her article offers novel contributions to the history of capitalism, indigenous history, and the Cold War. Her work also pushes historians of U.S. foreign relations to attend to the role animals and the natural environment play in international affairs as well as what it means to write the history of U.S. foreign relations from borderlands.
In addition, the Stuart L. Bernath Scholarly Article Prize Committee makes two honorable mentions. The first honorable mention goes to Simon Toner’s article “‘The Paradise of the Latrine’: American Toilet-Building and the Continuities of Colonial and Postcolonial Development,” published in 2019 in Modern American History. Toner’s fascinating and innovative article traces the story of a counter-insurgency, development project in South Vietnam to build sanitary latrines, embedding this story in a deeper imperial history. The article reconceptualizes the U.S.-South Vietnamese relationship, demonstrating how development aid was forged in collaboration with local elites rather than being passively imposed on South Vietnam.
SHAFR is saddened at the loss of noted scholars Amy Kaplan on July 30 aged 66 and Thomas Joseph McCormick Jr. on July 25 aged 87.
Amy Kaplan was the Edward W. Kane Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and past president of the American Studies Association. Her works included the Cultures of United States Imperialism (1994) collection, co-edited with Donald J. Pease, "which marked a paradigm shift for the field of American Studies, forcing scholars to contend with the United States’s imperialist history."
