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CANCELLED: Beverly Gage: G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the American Century

User Beverly Gage, Yale University.

House Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 12 March 2018, 17:00-19:00

CANCELLED: Alex Goodall: The US Marine Empire in the Caribbean and Central America, c.1870-1920

User Alex Goodall, University College London.

House Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 05 March 2018, 17:00-19:00

CANCELLED Jennifer Luff: Secrets, Lies, and the 'Special Relationship' in the Early Cold War

User Jennifer Luff, University of Durham.

House Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 26 February 2018, 17:00-19:00

Rhys Jones: Temporal Claustrophobia at the Continental Congress, 1774-1776

User Rhys Jones, University of Cambridge.

House Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 19 February 2018, 17:00-19:00

Molly Geidel: Mid-Century Liberalism and the Development Film

User Molly Geidel, University of Manchester.

House Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 12 February 2018, 17:00-19:00

Emma Hart: Remaking the Public Good in the American Marketplace during the Early Republic

User Emma Hart, St Andrews University.

House Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 05 February 2018, 17:00-19:00

Elliott West: Coincidence and Empire: The United States and the Pacific

User Elliott West, University of Oxford and University of Arkansas.

House Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 29 January 2018, 17:00-19:00

Ira Katznelson: Pitt Inaugural: 'As God Rules the Universe': Reflections on the State in Early America

User Ira Katznelson, University of Cambridge and Columbia University.

House Queens Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

Thursday 25 January 2018, 17:00-19:00

Jonathan Levy: Instability and Inequality: American after the Volcker Shock of 1990

User Jonathan Levy, University of Chicago.

House Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 22 January 2018, 17:00-19:00

Carl Nightingale: From a Global History of Divided Cities to a Global Urban History

User Carl Nightingale, University of Buffalo.

House Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 20 November 2017, 17:00-19:00

Glenda Gilmore: 'The Mystery That is Left Out of History': Romare Bearden's Art and the Search for an African American Past

User Glenda Gilmore, Yale University.

House Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 06 November 2017, 17:00-19:00

CANCELLED Ira Katznelson: Pitt Inaugural: 'As God Rules the Universe': Reflections on the State in Early America

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Bateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

Monday 30 October 2017, 17:00-19:00

Mae Ngai: The Chinese Question and Global Politics 1850-1910

User Mae Ngai, Columbia University.

House Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 23 October 2017, 17:00-19:00

Max Edling: Peace Pact and Nation: The U.S. Constitution as a Federal Treaty

User Max Edling, King's College London.

House Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 16 October 2017, 17:00-19:00

Gareth Davies: How Black Suffering Became Visible: The Racial Politics of Gulf Hurricanes Since 1945

User Gareth Davies, St Anne's College, University of Oxford.

House Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 09 October 2017, 17:00-19:00

George Chauncey: Rethinking the Post-War History of Gay Life and Politics in the US

User George, Chauncey, Yale University.

House Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 06 March 2017, 17:00-19:00

David Lubin: Behind the Mask: WWI, Plastic Surgery, and the Modern Beauty Revolution

User David Lubin, University of Oxford.

House Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 27 February 2017, 17:00-19:00

Kate Dossett: "I Fear I Have No Papers of Historical Interest": Women's History and Feminist Archives Since the New Deal

User Kate Dossett, University of Leeds.

House Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 20 February 2017, 17:00-19:00

Emily Charnock: More Than A Score: Interest Group Ratings and Polarized Politics

User Emily Charnock, University of Cambridge.

House Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 13 February 2017, 17:00-19:00

Alan Taylor: Premature Independence: College Violence in Virginia, 1750-1826

User Alan Taylor, University of Oxford.

House Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 06 February 2017, 17:00-19:00

Simon Newman: Hidden in Plain Sight: Escaped Slaves in Jamaica

User Simon Newman, University of Glasgow.

House Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 23 January 2017, 17:00-19:00

Jill Lepore: The Rise and Fall of the Fact

User Jill Lepore, Harvard University and the New Yorker.

House The Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall.

Friday 20 January 2017, 16:00-18:00

Thomas Sugrue: Obama's Urban Policy: A First Appraisal

User Thomas Sugrue, New York University.

House Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 16 January 2017, 17:00-19:00

Loïc Wacquant: Peculiar Institutions: Four Centuries of race-Making in the United States

User Loïc Wacquant, University of California, Berkeley and 2016-17 Pitt Professor, University of Cambridge.

House Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 28 November 2016, 17:00-19:00

Seth Archer: Throwing Away the Gods: Hawai'i, 1818-1825

User Seth Archer, University of Cambridge.

House Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 21 November 2016, 17:00-19:00

Darren Dochuk: Blood on the Earth: Wildcat Religion and Oil in America's Age of Civil War

User Darren Dochuk, University of Notre Dame.

House Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 14 November 2016, 17:00-19:00

Bronwen Everill: Free Produce, Free Labour, and the Africa Question

User Bronwen Everill, University of Cambridge.

House Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 31 October 2016, 17:00-19:00

Nick Witham: Remembering 1968: Life Writing, Politics and Protest

User Dr Nick Witham, University College London.

House Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 24 October 2016, 17:00-19:00

Pekka Hämäläinen: A Place in the World

User Pekka Hämäläinen, University of Oxford.

House Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 17 October 2016, 17:00-19:00

Mark A. Peterson: Dismembering the Body: The Demise of the City-State of Boston, 1822-1860

User Mark A. Peterson, University of California, Berkeley.

House Old Library, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 23 May 2016, 17:00-19:00

Nicholas Guyatt Book Launch: Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation

User Nicholas Guyatt, University of Cambridge.

House Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 16 May 2016, 17:00-19:00

Joanna Cohen: Accounting for Loss: Technology and Tragedy in America's Civil War

User Joanna Cohen, Queen Mary, University of London.

House Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 09 May 2016, 17:00-19:00

Anthony G. Hopkins: Rethinking the American Empire

User Anthony G. Hopkins, Emeritus Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History, University of Cambridge.

House Board Room, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 27 April 2016, 17:00-19:00

Sarah M.S. Pearsall: Enlightenment, Polygamy, Vampires

User Dr Sarah M.S Pearsall, University of Cambridge.

House Staircase 1, Room 4, Corpus Christi College.

Thursday 03 March 2016, 17:00-19:00

Gareth Stedman Jones: Karl Marx and American Politics - The New York Tribune Years

User Gareth Stedman Jones, Queen Mary, University of London and University of Cambridge.

House Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 29 February 2016, 17:00-19:00

Sarah Miller-Davenport: The Power of Mutual Understanding: Teaching 'New Modes of Life' in Post-Statehood Hawai'i

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 22 February 2016, 17:00-19:00

Michael Kazin: War Against War: The American Fight for Peace

User Professor Michael Kazin, Georgetown University.

House Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 15 February 2016, 17:00-19:00

Marie-Jeanne Rossignol: The Atlantic World of Anthony Benezet

User Professor Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, Université Paris Diderot.

House Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 08 February 2016, 17:00-19:00

John A. Thompson: Why Did the United States Assume a Global Role?

User Dr John A. Thompson, University of Cambridge.

House Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 01 February 2016, 17:00-19:00

Stephen Tuck: The Doubts of Their Fathers: The Secular Origins of the Civil Rights Movement

User Professor Stephen Tuck, University of Oxford.

House Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 25 January 2016, 17:00-19:00

Margaret Jacobs: Reconciling Native American and Twentieth Century American History

User Margaret Jacobs, 2015-16 Pitt Professor, University of Cambridge.

House Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 18 January 2016, 17:00-19:00

Charlie Laderman: Theodore Roosevelt and the Humanitarian Tradition in U.S. Diplomacy

User Charlie Laderman, Peterhouse College, University of Cambridge.

House Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 30 November 2015, 17:00-19:00

Andrew R. Graybill: For the Sake of the Common Happiness: The Taos Revolt of 1847 and the Limits of U.S. Conquest

User Professor Andrew R. Graybill, Southern Methodist University.

House Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 23 November 2015, 17:00-19:00

Reading and Remembering Michael O'Brien

User Professor Richard King, Dr Joel Isaac, Dr Samuel James.

House Old Library, Sidney Sussex College.

Thursday 19 November 2015, 17:00-19:00

Robin L. Einhorn: The Long View of American Tax Politics

User Professor Robin L. Einhorn, University of California, Berkeley and The American Academy in Berlin.

House Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 16 November 2015, 17:00-19:00

Jonathan Bell: Rethinking the "Straight State": Welfare Politics, Health Care, and Public Policy in the Shadow of AIDS

User Professor Jonathan Bell, University College London.

House Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 09 November 2015, 17:00-19:00

Brian Ward: The Beatles' White (Photograph) Album: Race, Class and Gender in Miami Beach, 1964

User Professor Brian Ward, Northumbria University.

House Knox Shaw Room, Sidney Sussex College.

Monday 02 November 2015, 17:00-19:00

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