2016-­‐2017 EVENTS FALL 2016 September 22-­‐25 SMU @ Taos WORKSHOP October 5, 2016 Dallas Hall WORKSHOP October 6, 2016 Prothro Hall October 18, 2016 McCord Auditorium Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points for the 21st Century Cosponsored with the George W. Bush Library and Museum, SMU’s John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies, Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy at Temple University, Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs at Texas A&M University The Election of 1912 and its Contemporary Significance Cosponsored with Humanities Texas, with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities grant, Humanities in the Public Square ** Workshop for local Texas educators American Maelstrom: The 1968 Election and the Politics of Division Michael Cohen, Boston Globe Cosponsored with SMU’s John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies THIRD RAIL SERIES: “Are We Too Dumb For Democracy?” Robert Howell, SMU Philosophy | Joseph F. Kobylka, SMU Political Science Cosponsored with the Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility October 20, 2016 Mack Ballroom October 26, 2016 McCord Auditorium November 4, 2016 Institute Auditorium George W. Bush Center November 10, 2016 McCord Auditorium SMU.EDU/CPH November 11-­‐12, 2016 Duke University WORKHOP December 7, 2016 McCord Auditorium Historians in Chief: How Presidents Interpret the Past to Control the Future Day Long Conference with Luncheon Keynote Address by Edward Countryman, SMU Cosponsored with the George W. Bush Library and Museum American Ulysses, A Comprehensive Biography of Ulysses S. Grant Ron C. White, Jr., UCLA Cross-­‐Examining History: A Lawyer Gets Answers From the Experts About Our Presidents Talmage Boston, Winstead PC Cosponsored with the George W. Bush Library and Museum and the Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility From the Redwood Forests: Restoration and the Brave New Politics of National Parks and Public Lands Mark Spence, Independent Historian Cosponsored with SMU’s Clements Center for Southwest Studies “The Last Card in the Deck”: Inside George W. Bush’s 2007 Iraq Surge Decision Cosponsored with Duke University, Harvard University, University of Texas at Austin Clements Center for History, Strategy and Statecraft Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency David Greenberg, Rutgers University Cosponsored with the World Affairs Council of DFW 2016-­‐2017 EVENTS SMU.EDU/CPH SPRING 2017 January 12, 2017 McCord Auditorium January 14-­‐16, 2017 University of Texas at Austin CONFERENCE January 24, 2017 McCord Auditorium Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s Meg Jacobs, Princeton University Ronald Reagan’s National Security Policies and the International History of the 1980s Cosponsored with University of Texas at Austin’s Clements Center for History, Strategy and Statecraft, Strauss Center for International Security and Law, the Department of History and the Department of Government, and the LBJ School of Public Affairs Custer and Presidential Politics During the Civil War and Reconstruction T. J. Stiles, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author of Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America Cosponsored with SMU’s Clements Center for Southwest Studies February 8, 2017 Diplomacy in Black and White: John Adams, Toussaint Louverture, and Their McCord Auditorium Atlantic World Alliance Ronald Johnson, Texas State University March 8, 2017 First Lady Florence Harding: Behind the Tragedy and Controversy McCord Auditorium Katherine Sibley, St. Joseph’s University Cosponsored with the George W. Bush Library and Museum April 19, 2017 Why Wilson Matters McCord Auditorium Tony Smith, Tufts University ** Presidential Histories and Memoirs Lecture Series with the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum ** CPH Presidential Forum Event REGISTRATION FOR THESE EVENTS WILL OPEN ABOUT 3 WEEKS BEFORE THE EVENT DATE AT SMU.EDU/CPH. IF YOU ARE ON OUR EMAIL LIST, YOU WILL RECEIVE AN EMAIL INVITATION TO REGISTER.