- Lauren Stokes's Fear of the Family: Guest Workers and Family Migration in the Federal Republic of Germany
- Deborah Cohen's Last Call at The Hotel Imperial
- Henry Binford's From Improvement to City Planning
- Kevin Boyle's The Shattering
- Paul Gillingham's Unrevolutionary Mexico
- Melissa Macauley's Distant Shores
- Kate Masur's Until Justice Be Done
- Susan Pearson's The Birth Certificate
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"Reading the China Dream through the Writings of China’s Public I...
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Please join the East Asia Research Forum for a talk given by David Ownby (Université de Montréal) as he explores this Chinese “republic...
Lecture on Japanese Empire by Louise Young (CCHS lunch lecture)
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Louise YOUNG (University of Wisconsin—Madison), author of Beyond the Metropolis: Second Cities and Modern Life in Interwar Japan (2013)...
Distinguished Lecture on African American History by Tomiko Brown...
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Joint CCHS/CAAH Distinguished Lecture on African American History Tomiko BROWN-NAGIN (Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Stud...