14 Thursday Nov 2024
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Inheriting a world with nuclear weapons is like “buying a house with a ghost in it – you never really get a good night’s sleep, because you always know the ghost is there.”
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As the Gary Hess Lecture approaches and our speaker, Bill Allison, is a distinguished graduate of our program, we take the opportunity to share this post of our colleague Dr. Doug Forsyth about the department’s contributions to the field of Policy History —Amílcar E. Challú
22 Friday Jul 2022
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As we reflect on 50 years since 1972, we contemplate how past events and historical figures impact our present history. Students of Dr. Greene will learn more about this influential period in the HIST 3334/3334H: The Vietnam War course in Fall 2022.
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16 Thursday Mar 2017
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Lloyd Ambrosius
The Department of History cordially invites you to attend the Gary R. Hess Lecture in Policy History: “The Paradox of Wilsonianism: World War I and American Internationalism” by Lloyd E. Ambrosius of the University of Nebraska. The lecture, scheduled to coincide with the centennial of America’s entry into the First World War, will take place at 4:00 pm on Thursday, March 30, in Room 228 of the Bowen-Thompson Student Union. At the initiative of Professor Hess’s former students, this annual lectureship is held to recognize his contributions to the profession and university during his forty-five years of service from 1964 to 2009.
Lloyd E. Ambrosius is Emeritus Professor of History and Samuel Clark Waugh Distinguished Professor of International Relations at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, which honored him with the Louise Pound-George Howard Distinguished Career Award in 2015. Professor Ambrosius is one of the leading scholars of the Wilson Presidency. He is the author of Woodrow Wilson and the American Diplomatic Tradition: The Treaty Fight in Perspective (1987), Wilsonian Statecraft: Theory and Practice of Liberal Internationalism during World War I (1991), and Wilsonianism: Woodrow Wilson and His Legacy in American Foreign Relations (2002). His forthcoming book on Woodrow Wilson and American Internationalism will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2017.
Book Cover
Professor Ambrosius has participated throughout his career in the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) in various ways, including membership on its Council and the Editorial Board of Diplomatic History. He also served as member and chair of the SHAFR program committee and the selection committee for the Norman and Laura Graebner Award. His historiographical essay on “Woodrow Wilson and World War I” will appear in the April 2017 issue of SHAFR’s newsletter, Passport. He was president of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era for two years in 2015 and 2016, having served the previous two years as vice president. He continues as a member of its Council.
11 Thursday Jun 2015
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Luke Nichter, Ph.D. alum from the Graduate Program in Policy History, will have several books released in the coming months:
· Richard Nixon and Europe: The Reshaping of the Postwar Atlantic Alliance, published May, 2015 by Cambridge University Press.
· Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. and the Decline of the Eastern Establishment is now under contract with Yale University Press. This will be the first biography of Lodge, who found himself near the epicenter of so many significant 20th century events.
· The Nixon Tapes: 1973, co-authored with Douglas Brinkley, will be published September, 2015 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. The is the sequel volume to the New York Times bestseller The Nixon Tapes: 1971-1972 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014). A written offer has been accepted for a Mandarin version to be published by the top Chinese academic publisher SDX/Sanlian.
Dr. Luke Nichter signing a copy of his book, The Nixon Tapes
09 Thursday Apr 2015
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Dr. Peter Hahn, professor and chair of the History Department at The Ohio State University, presented the 4th annual Gary Hess Lecture on Tuesday, April 7th.
Dr. Hahn’s lecture was titled “Mission Accomplished or Mission Failure? The United States and Iraq since 1990,” presenting the history of our relations with Iraq from the invasion of Kuwait to the present-day tensions with ISIL.
Dr. Peter Hahn, delivering the Gary Hess lecture on US-Iraqi relations since 1990
Dr. Gary Hess, Dr. Peter Hahn, and Dr. Benjamin Greene, who organized the event and introduced Dr. Hahn
Dr. Peter Hahn, Dr. Gary Hess, Dr. Dwayne Beggs, and Dr. Benjamin Greene
23 Monday Mar 2015
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The Gary R. Hess Lecture in Policy History will be held Tuesday, April 7 at 4 pm in Room 228 of the Bowen Thompson Student Union as the Department of History welcomes Dr. Peter Hahn, Professor and Chair at The Ohio State University. Dr. Hahn will lecture on “Mission Accomplished or Mission Failure? The United States and Iraq since 1990.”
The Hess Lecture was created at the initiative of Professor Hess’s former students. This annual lectureship is held to recognize his contributions to the profession and university during his forty-five years of service to BGSU from 1964 to 2009. This year, additional funding to support this lecture has been provided by BGSU’s College of Arts and Sciences. The coordinator for this year’s lecture is Dr. Benjamin Greene.
Dr. Hahn is the one of the most prominent scholars of American foreign relations with the Middle East. His publications include Missions Accomplished?: The United States and Iraq since World War I (Oxford University Press, 2011); Crisis and Crossfire: The United States and the Middle East since 1945 (Potomac Books, 2005); Caught in the Middle East: U.S. Policy Toward the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1945-1961 (University of North Carolina Press, 2004); and The United States, Great Britain, and Egypt, 1945-1956: Strategy and Diplomacy in the Early Cold War (University of North Carolina Press, 1991).
To facilitate planning, please email history@bgsu.edu by April 1, 2015 to let us know whether you plan to attend.
30 Wednesday Apr 2014
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Luke Nichter, Ph.D. recipient from the Graduate Program in Policy History at Bowling Green State University, will have his dissertation published by Cambridge University Press, the first dissertation from BGSU to be accorded such an honor. Nichter, whose dissertation was titled “Richard Nixon and Europe: The Reshaping of the Postwar Atlantic World,” has previously received the University Dissertation prize as well as from the Ohio Academy of History. He was advised by Dr. Douglas Forsyth.
Nichter is currently serving as an associate professor of history at Texas A&M-Central Texas, and will have his book, The Nixon Tapes, published this summer, co-authored with Douglas Brinkley.
10 Thursday Apr 2014
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Dr. Barton Bernstein, emeritus professor in history at Stanford University, was the featured speaker in the Gary Hess Lecture, held on April 8th in the Bowen-Thompson Student Union to a large gathering of students (undergraduate and graduate alike) as well as faculty representing different departments and majors.
Dr. Barton Bernstein lectured on “The Atomic Bombings Reconsidered,” a topic in which Bernstein is a leading expert. For more on Dr. Bernstein’s lecture and teaching interests, please see our earlier post.
Dr. Bernstein was introduced by his former student and current professor in the Policy History program at Bowling Green State University, Dr. Benjamin Greene. Dr. Greene was instrumental in organizing the event and bringing Dr. Bernstein to campus. For more on Dr. Greene’s research and teaching, please visit his faculty page.
The Gary Hess Lecture Series is a collaboration between the BGSU History Department and several of Dr. Hess’ former students from his over forty years of service to the Department and BGSU community. For more on Dr. Gary Hess, please visit his emeritus page
27 Thursday Mar 2014
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Barton J. Bernstein, Professor of History, Emeritus at Stanford University, will deliver the third Gary R. Hess Lecture in Policy History on Tuesday, April 8, 2014 from 4-5:30 in Room 201 of the Bowen-Thompson Student Union. Professor Bernstein’s lecture is titled: “The Atomic Bombings Reconsidered.”
The Gary R. Hess Lecture in Policy History at Bowling Green State University is an annual lectureship held at the initiative of Dr. Hess’ former students to recognize his contributions to the profession and the university during his forty-five years of service from 1964 to 2009. For more on Dr. Hess’ contributions to scholarship and BGSU, please visit his emeritus faculty page.
Dr. Benjamin Greene, himself a Stanford alumnus, will be hosting an informal lunch with Professor Bernstein and BGSU graduate students the same day, discussing the craft of history and Bernstein’s approach. The lunch is from 12-1:30. For more on Dr. Greene’s research and teaching, please visit his faculty page.
Professor Bernstein is the most prominent and prolific scholar on the dropping of the atomic bombs. He has authored numerous ground-breaking articles on a range of ethical, environmental, and strategic issues associated with the bombings. His publications include studies on physicists Leo Szilard, Edward Teller, and J. Robert Oppenheimer, along with a number of influential essays on U.S. foreign policy and international crises, nuclear history, and modern science and technology policy. His articles have appeared in leading scholarly publications across several disciplines, including: Journal of American History, Diplomatic History, Foreign Affairs, Physics Today, Peace and Change, Political Science Quarterly, Nature, Scientific American, International Security, Peace Review, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Technology and Culture, Journal of Cold War Studies, Journal of Military History, Journal of Strategic Studies, and Pacific Historical Review.