American History Workshops

All meetings take place at 11:00 in the Sosnow Room, Christ's College. If you have any questions, please contact either Daniel Matlin, Christ’s College, at dpm27@cam.ac.uk or (7)66590; or Sophie King, Secretary to the Mellon Professor, at srk35@cam.ac.uk or (3)35317.

Lent Term 2010

• 3 February
  Andrew Porwancher, Clare Hall:
  Objectivity's Prophet: Adolph S. Ochs and the New York Times, 1896-1935
• 10 February
  Hannah Morgenstein, Lucy Cavendish:
  Reshaping Notions of Americanism: The Peace Corps, 1961-1963
• 17 February
  Olivia Sohns, Clare:
  Lyndon Johnson and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Historiographical Perspective
• 24 February
  John Heavens, St. John's:
  The Christ and Culture Dilemma, to the Nth Degree: Representations and Perceptions of the American YMCA Mission to China, 1905-1935
• 3 March
  Benjamin Crowne, Gonville and Caius:
  The Partisan Bases of Neoconservative Policy in the 1990s
• 10 March
  David Mislin, Boston University/Churchill College:
  'Inequality There Must Be': Protestants, Catholics and the Defense of American Capitalism, 1875-1900

American History Workshops Archive

• 21 January
  Stephen Mawdsley, Clare Hall:
  Polio and Prejudice
• 28 January
  Andrew Porwancher, Darwin:
  Humanism’s Sisyphean Task: Curricular Reform at Brown During World War II
• 4 February
  Tom Tunstall-Allcock, Sidney Sussex:
  ‘Conformity is Neither Practical Nor Desirable’: Thomas C. Mann and Latin America
• 11 February
  Charlie Laderman, St. Catharine’s:
  ‘Waking Up to Moral Responsibility’: Woodrow Wilson and the American Response to the Armenian Question, 1915-1920
• 18 February
  Rebekah Law, Gonville & Caius
  Fundamentalist Foundations and the Silent Fundamentalists
• 25 February
  Johannes Kadura, Sidney Sussex:
  ‘Decent Interval’ and Insurance Policy: The Strategy for the Ceasefire in Vietnam (January/Early February 1973)
• 4 March
  Adam Gilbert, Clare:
  Literary Theory and the Utilisation of Poetry in Historical Studies
• 11 March
  Kristal Enter, Clare:
  The Desegregation of the University of Georgia

• October 24
  Robin Vandome, Christ's:
  Modernist Elements in American Scientific Thought, 1870-1910
• October 31
  Simon Stevens, Christ's:
  Race and Human Rights: The Carter Administration and Apartheid, 1977-1981
• November 7
  James Blackstone, Clare College:
  Senator Joe McCarthy and Anglo-American Relations in 1953
• November 14
  Dan Matlin, Christ's:
  "To Paint the Life of My People": Romare Bearden's Harlem without Walls, 1960-1975
• November 21
  Andrew Fearnley, Sidney Sussex:
  Signifying Suicide: Black Nationalists, American Psychiatrists, and the Politics of Death, 1969-73
• November 28
  No meeting

• January 30
  Historiographical Essay by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall:
  "The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past," Journal of American History, Vol. 91, No. 4 (March 2005)
• February 6
  Andrew Fearnley, Sidney Sussex:
  Etiology and Epidemiology: Causes, Categories, and Disciplinary Discourse, 1920-1970
• February 13
  Katie Brownell, Boston University:
  The Rise of the "Sixth Estate": Hollywood Celebrities and American Politics
• February 20
  Clemens Hausler, Girton:
  The Age of Affluence: John Kenneth Galbraith's Impact on "Progressive" Politics in the North Atlantic World from the 1950s to the 1970s
• February 27
  Simon Stevens, Christ's:
  Cyrus Vance, Anthony Lake, Richard Holbrooke and Foreign Policy after Vietnam
• March 5
  Oliver Murphey, Clare:
  Embracing Bolivia's MNR: Pragmatically Avoiding Brash Anticommunism in the Eisenhower Era
• March 12
  Liz Lundeen, Clare:
  Balancing the Tightrope of Accommodation: North Carolina's African-American College Presidents, 1890-1930

• May 7 - Liz Lundeen, Clare:
  The Accommodation Strategies of African-American Educational Leaders in North Carolina, 1890-1930
• May 14 - Jack Thompson, Wolfson:
  The Panama Episode of 1903: Public Opinion as an Enabling Factor
• May 21 - Stephen Morris, Clare:
  "Respectable" Dissent and Public Intolerance, 1965-66
• May 28 - Amy Renton, Darwin:
  Violence, Deviance and Disunity between Enslaved African Americans in the Antebellum South, c.1800-1850
• June 4 - Emily Floeck, Trinity Hall:
  Taking Down the Wall? Problem Representation in American Foreign Policy Towards China, 1969-79

• 20 October ‘The Senses in American History: A Round Table,’ Journal of American History, Vol. 95, No. 2 (Sep. 2008): 378-416 (introduction and essays by Smith, Fitzgerald & Petrick, Chiang), available at www.journalofamericanhistory.org/issues/952/#roundtable
• 29 October
  tbc
• 5 November
  Emily Floeck, Trinity Hall:
  American Foreign Policy Toward China, 1972-1979
• 12 November
  Stephen Morris, Clare:
  Middle America and the Antiwar Movement, 1969-1970
• 19 November
  Elizabeth Lundeen, Christ’s:
  African-American College Presidents in North Carolina, 1890-1930
• 26 November
  Phil Dow, Clare:
  The Missionary Factor in US-Ethiopian Relations, 1941-1960
• 3 December
  Charlotte Carrington, Trinity Hall:
  Concepts and Perceptions of Secular Identity and Dissent in Seventeenth-Century New England