Political Studies

Join us virtually on Zoom to hear Philip Gould discuss his newest book War Power: Literature and the State in the Civil War North, (2024). Gould will speak generally about the work and also give an overview of its readings, from authors such as Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Louisa May Alcott. By the end of the program the audience will see the parallels between the wartime state in the 1860s, with its expansion of federal and executive authority, to political questions we face today. 

AAS member Nathaniel Philbrick (elected 2002) comes back to Antiquarian Hall to discuss his forthcoming book, Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (May 2016).

Includes a story about African Americans and a discussion of contemporary amateur journalists. By eighteen-year-old Troy, New York, and Richmond, Virginia, amateur John Winslow Snyder (1855-1910); he became a lawyer and taught at the Kansas City (Missouri) School of Law.

This text reflects period prejudices and intolerance.

in conversation with John Stauffer

Acclaimed historian Manisha Sinha launches her new book, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction in this hybrid program. A groundbreaking, expansive new account of Reconstruction, Sinha's research fundamentally alters our view of this formative period in American history.