The Center for Presidential History explores the history of the United States and the American presidency through Research, Public Engagement & Oral History.
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Former #CPH postdoc Blake Earle with a new essay in Modern American History. Give it a read!
CPH has launched Civics in the Classroom, a new podcast series tied to our Dept of Ed Summer Seminar, America’s First Principles: The Declaration of Independence.
Our first ep features Shilo Brooks & Jeffrey Engel discussing civic education.
Listen here: tinyurl.com/ypb7hxdd
Join us next week for a conversation with award-winning journalist Susan Page on her new book, The Queen and Her Presidents: The Hidden Hand That Shaped History (Harper, 2026).
Click here to register: tinyurl.com/yc468nky
TONIGHT! Join us at SMU to welcome @ronajohnson.bsky.social on his new book "Entangled Alliances: Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy During the American Revolution." @cornellupress.bsky.social
Info & free registration here: blog.smu.edu/cph/event/en...
Join us tomorrow for a conversation with Kate Epstein on her new book "Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State." @uchicagopress.bsky.social
Info & free registration here: blog.smu.edu/cph/event/an...
Congrats to #CPH Postdoc Alexander Stephens, who received the @oah.org Presidents' Travel Fund for Emerging Historians award! Alexander will join a roundtable on The Urgency of Recent Immigration History in the Trump Era, at #OAH26 Saturday, April 18, 8:45 AM–10:15 AM.
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Tomorrow! 📚🎙️
SMU Center for Presidential History
SMU Center for Presidential History
Here's my review of @historianheather.bsky.social's excellent new book FEAR AND FURY in @jacobinmag.bsky.social. Many thanks to Meagan Day for the edits, and many thanks to Heather for writing yet another monumentally important book.🗃️
jacobin.com/2026/03/goet...
SMU Center for Presidential History
SMU Center for Presidential History
SMU Center for Presidential History
A hat trick for former SHAFR president Andrew Preston. ⚽🏆🏆🏆
His award-winning book Total Defense: The New Deal and the Invention of National Security has now picked up a third major honor: the 2026 Book Prize from the Society for History in the Federal Government. Congratulations Andrew!
The University of North Carolina Wilmington invites junior scholars to apply for the 2026 Sherman Emerging Scholar Lecture. This year's theme: “The Global American Revolution”
Deadline April 13
uncw.edu/academics/co...
In 1984, a white man named Bernie Goetz shot four unarmed black youths on a New York City subway train. The tabloids hailed him as a fed-up everyman — rhetoric that permeated the culture and intensifi...
Inside MAH's special issue: "War for the Water: The Environmental Origins of Conflict Between Shrimp Fishers and Vietnamese Refugees on the Texas Coast" by Thomas Blake Earle shows the role of marine ecology in conflicts between Texan white & Vietnamese fishers in the 1970s & 80s.
Link below!
Ronald Angelo Johnson
Since 2002, the UNCW History Department has hosted an annual lecture series established to honor two lifelong learners and friends of the department, Virginia and Derrick Sherman.
