The Workshop in Modern U.S. History meets once per month to discuss works in progress by leading scholars in 20th-century U.S. history. The workshop is open to all graduate students and faculty. Sponsored by professors Beverly Gage and Elizabeth Hinton.
2025-2026 Schedule
all events take place from 4:00-5:30 in HQ 276 unless otherwise noted
September 25, (HQ L02) opening talk and reception: Eric Foner, Columbia University
October 30, Leah Wright Rigueur, Johns Hopkins University: “Black Collar Criminal”
December 4, Jennifer Mittelstadt, Rutgers University: “Intimate Sovereignty: Mental Health and the Threat of World Government in Postwar America”
January 29, Daniel HoSang, Yale University: “The Cynical Style in American Politics”
February 26, Amity Shlaes, Coolidge Foundation: “The Gospel of Wealth: American 1900-1914”
April 2, (HQ 132) Faith Lazar, Yale University: “Little Brown Scares: Experiments in Domestic Counterterrorism in the 1990s”
April 30, (HQ 401) Kevin Kruse, Princeton University: “Uncle Sam Himself: John Doar and the Transformation of hte Civil Rights Division”