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[WHS] Benjamin Young on Guns, Guerillas, and the Great Leader: North Korea and the Third World.

Please join us for a Washington History Seminar Panel with Benjamin Young on Guns, Guerillas, and the Great Leader: North Korea and the Third World.

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[WHS] Benjamin Young on Guns, Guerillas, and the Great Leader: North Korea and the Third World

Please join us for a Washington History Seminar Panel with Benjamin Young on Guns, Guerillas, and the Great Leader: North Korea and the Third World.

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[National Archives] Department of State Records Now Available Online: Despatches from Special Agents, Notes to Foreign Missions, and Notes from Foreign Consuls, 1789-1906

Department of State Records Now Available Online: Despatches from Special Agents, Notes to Foreign Missions, and Notes from Foreign Consuls, 1789-1906

Today’s post was written by David Langbart, archivist in Textual Reference at the National Archives at College Park, MD.

The National Archives is pleased to announce that more records of the Department of State have been digitized and are now available online through the National Archives Catalog.  This is the third in a series of occasional posts.  The first post described the microfilm digitization project and the first foreign affairs records made available through it.  The second post is about consular despatches.

GloBio Event- Greg Tomlin, Murrow's Cold War

The Global Biography Working Group

PRESENTS

Greg Tomlin

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History On-Line Presents: Professor Mark Kramer

History On-Line Presents:

Professor Mark Kramer 

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Assistant Professor in United States History – Université de Montréal

The Department of History – Faculté des arts et des sciences de l’Université de Montréal is seeking to appoint a tenure-track assistant professor in History of the United States.

English

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[WHS] Mark Bradley and Mary Dudziak

Please join us for a Washington History Seminar Panel with Mark Bradley and Mary Dudziak on Making the Forever War:  Marilyn B. Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism.

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[Zoom] Hoover Institution-485 Days at Majdanek: Inside a World War II Prison Camp

The Hoover Institution Press and Hoover Institution Library & Archives invite you to
a Zoom webinar


485 Days at Majdanek:
Inside a World War II Prison Camp 

 



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AHA Perspectives on FRUS at 60 and the 2020 HAC Report

AHA Perspectives on History on The Foreign Relations Series at 160 and on The 202 State Department HAC Report 

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Call for Applications- SHAFR Electronic Communications Editor

SHAFR Electronic Communications Editor

The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) invites applications for a new position of Electronic Communications Editor, with a focus on social media and content on the SHAFR website. The Communications Editor will plan, execute, and evaluate a variety of virtual communications initiatives, projects, and platforms that strategically align with the broader advancement of SHAFR and the academic field (including development, member relations, and communications). This individual’s scope of work will span SHAFR’s social-media needs, including members, committees and task forces, Council, print publications, and the annual conference. The Electronic Communications Editor will develop an annual work plan, in consultation with the President and the Executive Director and for presentation to Council, and is evaluated against the success of that plan. This position will also work with an advisory committee (much like an editorial board) in order to ensure a variety of perspectives and approaches within the content presented on the website.

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[Zoom] Clements Center- After Saigon’s Fall: Refugees and US-Vietnamese Relations, 1975-2000

The University of Texas At Austin, Clements Center for National Security
After Saigon’s Fall: Refugees and US-Vietnamese Relations, 1975-2000 [Zoom Event]
On Tuesday, September 28, the Clements Center for National Security will host Amanda Demmer, Assistant Professor of History at Virginia Tech University, for a virtual event on her recent release "After Saigon’s Fall: Refugees and US-Vietnamese Relations, 1975-2000."

IEHS George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award

The Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS) presents two awards of $1,000 each to help graduate students with their dissertations on American immigration, emigration, or ethnic history, broadly defined. These awards are intended for students in the process of researching and writing their dissertations and not intended for students completing and defending in Spring 2022.

[WHS] Eric Zolov on The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in the Global Sixties.

Please join us for a Washington History Seminar Panel with Eric Zolov on The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in the Global Sixties.

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Berlin and the Cold War Symposium

Berlin and the Cold War Symposium

Ohio University and the Contemporary History Institute will host a virtual symposium on Berlin during the Cold War on 1-2 October 2021. The event is free and open to the public and features nine leading scholars in Europe and the United States in the areas of diplomatic and military history. Panelists will examine a variety of aspects of Berlin from 1945 to 1989 to better understand the city’s role in the Cold War. Topics covered will be intra-alliance politics, policy and strategy, and cultural diplomacy.

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[WHS] Rethinking American Grand Strategy

Please join us for the William Roger Louis Session of the Washington History Seminar for a panel with Christopher McKnight Nichols and Andrew Preston on Rethinking American Grand Strategy. 

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Clements Center 2021-2022 Fellows

Announcing Class of 2021-22 Doctoral and Military Fellows

The Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin welcomes its 2021-22 class of Doctoral and Military Fellows! Emily Whalen of the University of Texas and Alexandra Sukalo of Stanford University are this year’s postdoctoral fellows. Zoltan Feher of Tufts University and Elena Wicker of Georgetown University are this year’s predoctoral fellows. Lt. Col. Edward Arntson (U.S. Army) and Cdr. Mike Knickerbocker (U.S. Navy) will be our inaugural Military Fellows. William Chou of Ohio State University joins us as a postdoctoral America in the World Consortium fellow, and Joseph Ledford of the University of California, Berkeley joins us as a predoctoral America in the World Consortium fellow.

OAH Willi Paul Adams and David Thelen Awards

https://www.oah.org/awards/book-awards/willi-paul-adams-award/

DEADLINE: SUBMISSIONS MUST BE POSTMARKED BY MAY 2, 2022
Willi Paul Adams

The Willi Paul Adams Award is given biennially by the Organization of American Historians to the author of the best book on American history published in a language other than English. The award (formerly the Foreign Language Book Prize) is named for Willi Paul Adams, who was an active member of OAH in Germany and a tireless advocate of the internationalization of American history.

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State Department Advisory Committee for Historical Diplomatic Documentation Virtual Meeting

The Department of State’s Advisory Committee for Historical Diplomatic Documentation will hold a virtual public meeting on August 30, 2021. The meeting, which will begin at 10 AM, will feature a presentation at 11:00 AM from the Office of the Historian’s Digital History Advisor, Joseph Wicentwoski. Dr. Wicentowski will discuss the origins and evolution of the Foreign Relations of the United States digital edition, how to make the most of the website's search capabilities, and how to access the FRUS open data corpus. This presentation will be of keen interest to those working in the field of digital humanities, historians of U.S. foreign relations, international historians, their students, and many others. This presentation will be of keen interest to those working in the field of digital humanities, historians of U.S. foreign relations, international historians, their students, and many others.

To attend, please RSVP via email to Julie Fort at [email protected]. Instructions on how to join the virtual meeting will be provided upon receipt of RSVP.

More Department of State Records Now Available Online: Consular Despatches, 1783-1906

More Department of State Records Now Available Online: Consular Despatches, 1783-1906

Today’s post was written by David Langbart, archivist in Textual Reference at the National Archives at College Park, MD.

The National Archives is pleased to announce that additional records of the Department of State have been digitized and are now available online through the National Archives Catalog.  An earlier post described the microfilm digitization project and the first foreign affairs records made available through it.

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SHAFR 2022 Call for Papers

Call for Papers
2022 SHAFR Conference

Virtual Sessions Online June 10-11, 2022
In-person sessions in New Orleans, LA, June 16-18, 2021


The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) invites proposals for its 2022 annual conference. After the tremendous success of the 2021 virtual conference under difficult circumstances, SHAFR members expressed a strong desire to include virtual days in the 2022 conference. Thus, we are delighted to bring you the best of both worlds in 2022: two dynamic days of online offerings, followed by two and a half days of an in-person meeting. The SHAFR 2022 program will use the virtual sessions to bring what works best online to the widest audience possible, while maintaining in New Orleans the best features of face-to-face conferences. The Virtual Days will include plenary events, feature roundtables, and lightning rounds with brief (5–7 minute) presentations of exciting new research. In New Orleans, we will feature traditional panels and roundtables and plenty of time for making connections with other scholars.
 
Proposals for the 2022 conference can take three forms:

  • Virtual: lightning-round paper proposals
  • New Orleans: panel proposals
  • New Orleans: individual paper proposals

 
SHAFR is dedicated to the study of the history of the United States in the world, broadly conceived. Given that the production, exercise, and understanding of U.S. power takes many forms and touches myriad subjects, the Program Committee welcomes proposals reflecting a broad range of approaches and topics.




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