Please join us for a Washington History Seminar Panel with Scott Reynolds Nelson on Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World.

Dear NCH member,

On March 15, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee convened a hearing to consider reforms to the Presidential Records Act (PRA), especially in light of recent revelations about the mishandling of records at the end of former President Trump's term. The National Coalition for History (NCH) submitted testimony for the record, urging the Committee to pass legislation to strengthen compliance requirements with the PRA.

Please join us for a Washington History Seminar Panel with Elizabeth Samet on Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness.

Please join us for a Washington History Seminar Panel with Leon Fink on Undoing the Liberal World Order: Progressive Ideals and Political Realities Since World War. 

To: All Employees. 

I have authorized the following facilities to begin implementing the workplace safety measures associated with substantial transmission levels in our Updated Reentry and Post-Reentry Plan.

Please join us for a Washington History Seminar Panel with Jason Steinhauer on “History, Disrupted”: How Social Media and the World Wide Web Have Changed the Past.

“Global Religion and American World-Making,” an April 8-9, 2022 conference at the University of Notre Dame

“Global Religion and American World-Making” aims to generate cross-disciplinary discussions on the role of religion in the projection of U.S. power in the world and in responses to it. A series of roundtables will bring historians, political scientists, and scholars from Religious Studies, American Indian Studies, American Studies, and Peace Studies into conversation over religion’s role in the exercise and legitimation of U.S. power abroad as well as resistance to it; sources, archives, and methods for writing religion into studies of American global power; and the implications of understandings of religion and U.S. power for secularization narratives.

Important notice regarding reopenining of National Archives facilities across the US

To: All Employees. 

SHAFR Manuscript Workshops for Contingent Faculty
Call for Applications

At its meeting in June, SHAFR Council approved a proposal to fund three manuscript workshops for contingent faculty who are members of SHAFR and work in the U.S. foreign relations field.  These workshops may be familiar to those who have benefited from them: established scholars read the work of others, often junior scholars’ revised dissertations, then meet together to discuss the work, with an eye toward preparing it for publication.  To this point, few foreign relations historians who do not have tenure-stream jobs or coveted post-doctoral fellowships have had access these sessions.  This program aims to remedy that.

Post-Conflict Workshop (June 2023)
Call for Papers

The Days After: U.S. Post-conflict Diplomacy since 1783

Some of America’s strongest bilateral relationships have been forged in the aftermath of a war. At the same time, war has failed in other cases to resolve outstanding underlying issues, and hostility has continued or intensified in the following years. Why have former adversaries at times become American allies, at other times remained enemies of the United States, and sometimes fluctuated between these two poles?  This conference is dedicated to exploring these fundamental questions. As such, we invite proposals that explore issues including: Distinctive U.S. approaches to repairing relationships; U.S. diplomatic efforts with a particular region or country; Situational factors that support or impede rapprochement; and, Particular tools (political, economic, public diplomacy, etc.) that facilitate closer ties after a war or conflict.

We anticipate that the papers will be initially presented at a one-day workshop at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University, on June 14, 2023, immediately before the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations in Arlington, VA, with a potential edited volume and/or published case studies to follow.

To submit a proposal, please provide a 150-200 word abstract of your paper topic and a two-page C.V. by March 14, 2022. Questions and proposals should be sent to [email protected]. You can also visit our website here: https://isd.georgetown.edu/2023-post-conflict-workshop/

Organizers:

Brian Etheridge, Kennesaw State University
Andy Johns, Brigham Young University
Kelly McFarland, Georgetown University

Link to the video appearance: https://www.c-span.org/video/?517768-4/washington-journal-lee-white-discusses-presidential-records-act

I've just been confirmed as a guest on C-SPAN's Washington Journal program this Sunday, February 13 from 8:30 to 9:00 am (EDT). I will be discussing the Presidential Records Act and the recent developments concerning former-President Trump's mishandling of records from his administration.

New Faces is an annual conference, geared toward the professional development and networking of early career scholars in security studies. Started in 2000, New Faces is one of TISS’ signature programs with a vast network of former participants.

TISS New Faces Conference

New Faces is designed to offer advanced PhD candidates and newly-minted PhDs a chance to present their research and receive feedback in a format akin to an academic job talk.

Professor of National Security Studies

DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE

Air Education and Training Command

Air University's Air Command and Staff College invites applications from qualified individuals for the position of Professor of National Security Studies, eSchool of Graduate Professional Military Education. This position prepares officers of all services and mid­ career Civil Service employees to assume positions of higher responsibility within the military and other government arenas.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 8, 2022
CONTACT: Jenna Grande | [email protected]
 

For those who missed the Washington Post expose on former-President Trump's habit of ripping up presidential records, here is the link. It is chilling reading. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/05/trump-ripping-documents/

We’ve just heard from the AHA that our jointly sponsored session with SHAFR, America and the World: The State of the Field, has been scheduled for Monday, February 21 from 5-6:30 pm EST as part of the AHA22 Online conference.

This will be a roundtable session and we hope we can be interactive with the audience, though I suppose that will depend some on the platform AHA uses.  At any rate conversation and interaction rather than stand and deliver is our aim.

The Global Research Institute (GRI) at William & Mary invites applications for a two-year Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Security and Foreign Policy, with the possibility for renewal beyond that point if external funding is identified. The fellow will support GRI’s Security and Foreign Policy Initiative, which includes annual convenings on topics related to the fellow’s area of expertise. We welcome applications from scholars whose research examines international security and/or foreign policy issues broadly defined, including, but not limited to, trade, foreign aid, and human rights. This fellowship is designed to broaden the theoretical diversity of perspectives here at GRI. Review of applications will begin on 2/10 and continue until the position is filled. For further information on requirements for the position and how to apply, please click here. 

Please join us for a Washington History Seminar Panel with Klaus Larres on Uncertain Allies: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Threat of a United Europe.

Please join us for a Washington History Seminar Panel with Ada Ferrer on Cuba: An American History.