Political History

This workshop explores one of the more vigorous developments in the social sciences over the past decade: an interdisciplinary revitalization of the study of politics from historical perspectives. The central aim of the workshop is to explore the roles that politics broadly construed have played in history and how understanding these political developments can reveal a richer and more nuanced view of American and related histories more generally. While workshop presentations and discussions may focus on the United States, they will also address the connections between past and current events as well as the world beyond the United States.