The Washington History Seminar series was held weekly on Mondays (unless otherwise noted) during the Fall and Spring academic semesters. If you have questions about the seminars, please email us at ahaonline@historians.org.
Spring 2025 Semester
All seminars were held on Mondays from 4–5:30 p.m. ET unless otherwise noted. Registration information was circulated for each event two weeks in advance of the webinar.
- January 13: Isaac Stanley-Becker
Europe without Borders: A History - January 27: Marlene Daut
The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe - February 3: Maurice Casey
Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism’s Forgotten Radicals - February 10: Elyse Graham
Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II - March 3: Michael David-Fox
Crucibles of Power: Smolensk under Stalinist and Nazi Rule - March 10: Samuel J. Hirst
Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919-1939 - March 17: Richard Overy **3–4:30 p.m.**
Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan - March 24: Laura Hobson Faure
Who Will Rescue Us? The Story of the Jewish Children who Fled to France and America During the Holocaust - March 31: Kornel Chang
A Fractured Liberation: Korea under US Occupation - April 7: Sandrine Kott
A World More Equal: An Internationalist Perspective on the Cold War - April 21: Erin O’Halloran
East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World between the Wars - April 28: Daniela Richterova
Watching the Jackals: Prague’s Covert Liaisons with Cold War Terrorists and Revolutionaries - May 5: David Commins
Saudi Arabia: A Modern History - May 12: Gretchen Heefner
Sand, Snow, and Stardust: How US Military Engineers Conquered Extreme Environments
Recordings
Recordings of past events are posted to the Washington History Seminar YouTube channel.