NJCHE Annual Conference
The NJCHE is excited to welcome the following speakers to our annual fall conference on November 22, 2024 at Princeton University
Dr. Steve Barnes, George Mason University: “The Soviet Gulag Past, The Russian Putinist Present”
Dr. Joanne Freeman, Yale University: “The Crisis Election of 1800 — And Now”
Dr. Sean Wilentz, Princeton University: “What Just Happened: The 2024 Election in (Tentative) Historical Perspective “
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Dr. Steve Barnes, George Mason University
Steve Barnes, George Mason University, is a specialist in the history of the former Soviet Union. His first book, Death and Redemption: The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society, was awarded the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize from the American Historical Association. This book reveals how the Gulag defined the border between those who would reenter Soviet society and those who were excluded through death. Drawing on newly opened archives in Russia and Kazakhstan as well as memoirs by actual prisoners, Barnes shows how the Gulag was integral to the Soviet goal of building a utopian socialist society. His new book Gulag Wives: Women, Family and Survival in Stalin’s Terror, will trace women’s lives in a camp for elite women during the height of Stalin’s Great Terror. He is the founder and a co-blogger at the Russian History Blog.
Dr. Joanne Freeman, Yale University
Joanne B Freeman, Yale University, specializes in the politics and political culture of the revolutionary and early national periods of American History. Her most recent book, Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic, won the Best Book award from the Society of Historians of the Early American Republic. She is also the author of The Essential Hamilton and Field of Blood: Congressional Violence in Antebellum America. She has written op-ed pieces for the New York Times and Washington Post, and appears in a host of documentaries on PBS and the History Channel. She has also worked extensively with high school history teachers and students in workshops, lectures and symposia around the nation. In 2017, Yale University awarded her the William Clyde DeVane Teaching Award. In the last two years, she also worked as a historical consultant for the National Park Service in the reconstruction of the Alexander Hamilton Grange National Memorial.
Dr. Sean Wilentz, Princeton University
Sean Wilentz, Princeton University, studies U.S. political and social history and teaches courses focusing on 19th century history. The author of numerous books including Chants Democratic which won the Albert J. Beveridge Award and The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson To Lincoln was awarded the Bancroft Prize. Subsequent works include Bob Dylan in American Politics, a thematic collection of essays covering American political history from the Revolution through the 1960s. His most recent study, No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding was the recipient of the Thomas A. Cooley Book Prize. Professor Wilentz has received numerous fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the American Academy in Berlin. Formerly a contributing editor to The New Republic, and currently a member of the editorial boards of Dissent and Democracy, he lectures frequently and has contributed some four hundred articles, reviews and op-ed pieces in national and international publications.