April 15, 2023: Joan E. Cashin
History and Material Culture: A Case Study
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April 9, 2022: David J. Staley
The Responsibility of Source Criticism
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March 27, 2021: Donna M. DeBlasio
Oral History: Catching the Stories of Our Lives
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April 13, 2020: Marsha Robinson
“We are more than stardust.”
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*Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 Meeting was cancelled. This address was therefore delivered to the membership via this website and the Fall 2020 newsletter.
March 23, 2019: Lavanya Vemsani
World History Education: Recent Trends and Pitfalls
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March 24, 2018: Steven Conn
Every Historian a Public Historian
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April 1, 2017: Janet R. Bednarek
A Case for Airport History
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April 2, 2016: Scott C. Martin
Serendipity in the Cemetery:
The Anglo-American Community in Florence, 1840-1860
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April 5, 2014: Jonathan R. Winkler
On The Rediscovery of Forgotten Things:
The Historical Roots of the Snowden Revelation.
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April 6, 2013: Mary Ann Heiss
A Queen, a Carpet, and a Historian of U.S. Foreign Relations
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March 31, 2012: Molly M. Wood
“Women are not Adapted to This Sort of Work,” or Are They?:
The First American Women Diplomats, 1924-1940.
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April 2011: Thomas Sosnowski
A la Recherche du Temps Perdu: A Paean to a Laudatory and Octogenerial Past.
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April 2010: Jacob H. Dorn
Comrade Father Thomas McGrady:
Politics, Polity, and Personality in the Case of a Socialist Priest
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2008: John E. Douglass
Publishing the Federalist Papers: From Text to Ur-Text
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2007: Larry Wilcox
Looking for History on Film
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2005: Gary R. Hess
Explaining Failure: The Forty-Year Debate over the Vietnam War
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2004: Thomas Templeton Taylor
A Murder, a Car, a Genius, and a House:
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Westcott House
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2003: K. Austin Kerr
Working in the Vineyards of Prohibition
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2002: William Jenkins
Ohio, Birthplace of Public Housing
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2001: Elizabeth K. MacLean
The Outcast and His Critics: Joe Davies and George Kennan and Louis Brandeis
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2000: David M. Fahey
The Politics of Drink in Britain: Anglo-American Perspectives
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1999: James H. O’Donnell, III
Straw from the Haystack:
Israel Ward Andrews, the Western College Society, and Education in the West, 1840-1875
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