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National History Center

SOURCE: Perspectives on History
9/29/2022

National History Center to Merge with AHA

by James Grossman

By merging the National History Center with the AHA, both organizations hope to alleviate the burdens of cost and time associated with running separate organizations and enable the Center to diffuse historical knowledge through scholarship, writing and teaching.

SOURCE: National History Center
10/14/2020

Julia Rose Kraut: Threat of Dissent: A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States

Julia Rose Kraut's "Threat of Dissent" examines major court decisions and legislation affecting the deportation of political radicals in the face of the First Amendment and America's stated ideals, while showing the lives of the people involved. She addressed the National History Center's Washington History Seminar this October.

SOURCE: National History Center
9/14/2020

JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956 (Video)

Author Fredrik Logevall discusses his new political biography of JFK in a virtual seminar with the National History Center.

SOURCE: AHA Perspectives on History
10-19-15 (accessed)

New Mock Briefings Program Shows Student-Historians How to Inform Policy

This fall the National History Center is introducing the Mock Policy Briefings Program, modeled on our own Congressional Briefings by Historians initiative.