Call for Papers for the 2025 APHI Graduate Conference Now Available!
For its fifteenth annual graduate student conference, Boston University’s American Political History Institute (APHI) invites submissions that examine violence in American public life. Political violence marked American public life long before the United States’ founding and, as recent presidential elections have shown, expressing political beliefs through violence continues to shape contemporary partisan competition. Acts of […]
Lineup for 2024-2025 Seminar Series Announced
APHI announces the 2024-25 lineup for the BU US History lunchtime seminars. Seminars convene at 12:20PM in room 504 at the BU History Department, 226 Bay State Road. Lunch will be served. Please join us for this exciting slate of workshops and keep on the lookout for future messages about the 2025 Graduate Student Conference […]
September 20th at 12:20p: Hannah Waits Kicks Off the APHI 2023-2024 Seminar Series
The BU American Political history seminar series will resume on September 20th with our first presenter: Hannah Waits (Harvard) will present an article in progress titled: “Missionary Positions: How American Evangelicals Learned to Love Global AIDS Work, 1985-2005.” From the mid-1980s to mid-2000s, American missionaries conducted widespread information campaigns across the United States to change […]
Lineup for 2023-2024 Seminar Series Announced
This year’s lineup of lunchtime seminars has been announced! All sessions will meet at 12:20pm in 226 Bay State Road, Room 504. September 20- Hannah Waits (Harvard), “Missionary Positions: How American Evangelicals Learned to Love Global AIDS Work.” October 4- Jim Campbell, “The Gospel According to the Klan: The Rev. Edgar Ray Killen and the […]
The 12th Annual(ish) APHI Graduate Conference Returns!
On April 8th and 9th, graduate historians from across the country gathered at Boston University for the long-awaited 12th APHI Graduate Student Conference: Making the American City. Participants were treated to the latest from our presenters and Robert O. Self’s keynote speech on the Hydrocarbon Middle Class. The organizers wish to congratulate Jamie Marsella, the […]
February 9th at 12:20p: Corinne Field Kicks Off the APHI Spring 2022 Seminar Series
Happy New Year! The BU American Political history seminar series will resume this semester, over Zoom, at 12:20 PM. Our first seminar will convene February 9, 2022 at 12:20. Professor Corinne Field (University of Virginia) will present a draft chapter from her book-in-progress: Her current book project, tentatively titled Grand Old Women: How Abolitionist and […]
The APHI Fall 2021 Seminar Series Continues with David Mayers on November 17
Next Wednesday, November 17, please join us for the second seminar of the semester. Professor David Mayers (Boston University) will discuss his paper, “‘Apologia for Mussolini” from his current book project Seekers and Partisans: Americans Abroad Before Pearl Harbor, 1935-1941. The seminar begins at 12:20 in room 504 of 226 Bay State Road. To hear more […]
Tomorrow, October 20 at 12:20p: Natalia Mehlman Petrzela Kicks Off the APHI Fall 2021 Seminar Series
Tomorrow, October 20, please join us for the first APHI seminar of the semester. Professor Natalia Mehlman Petrzela (The New School) will discuss her paper, “‘It’s not working out’: Exercise and the New Inequality” from her forthcoming book “Fit Nation: How America Embraced Exercise as the Government Abandoned it.” The seminar begins at 12:20 in […]
Call for Papers for the 2022 APHI Graduate Conference Announced!
We’re back! The Boston University American Political History Institute (APHI) welcomes submissions for its rescheduled twelfth annual graduate student conference April 8-9, 2022. Our theme asks panelists to consider the role of cities in U.S. political history. Cities have been laboratories for political movements and social reform, while the exercise of political power has shaped […]
Seminar Series Returns this Spring
Spring 2021 Virtual Seminars: February 10 Chad Williams (Brandeis University) “The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and World War I” February 24 Andrew David (Boston University) “Nelson Rockefeller’s Dreams of Glory: The Quest for National Legitimacy via National Security, 1952-1960” March 31 Julia Irwin (University of South Florida) “The Politics of Relief: Tracing […]