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1535 - Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and imprisoned.

1878 - The US stops minting the 20 cent coin.

1955 - Pulitzer Prize for Drama awarded to Tennessee Williams for his play "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof".

2023 - The Writers Guild of America goes on strike over pay and industry changes.

Undesign the Redline Explores the Racist Housing Policies that Shaped Upper Northwest. Washington City Paper.

RFK Stadium officially set to be demolished. The Washington Post.

U.S. v. Google: As landmark 'monopoly power' trial closes, here's what to look for. NPR.

Photo Credit: Francesco De Salvatore

This newsletter edition we spotlight Francesco De Salvatore, a current PhD student currently completing his dissertation “Making A Blue World: The New York Police Department and Popular Culture, 1973-2001”. Francesco previously received a MA in History from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a MA in American Studies from GW. 

Francesco’s dissertation studies the historical formation of propaganda by examining 1970s pop culture and the NYPD. His work focuses on the relationship between the nation’s largest police department and cultural institutions such as Hollywood, the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and the New York Police Department Museum. Additionally his dissertation explores the impact police culture has had on broader popular culture by examining parades, fraternal societies, police memorabilia and aesthetics. 

Francesco is also a public historian who has previously worked at the Special Collections at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the National Public Housing Museum, and StoryCorps. Throughout all of these experiences, Francesco has remained committed to supporting community-driven historical preservation and interpretation. While managing a new oral history program at the National Public Housing Museum, Francesco worked closely with public housing residents from across the country to develop the most comprehensive oral history of public housing in America. 

Currently, Francesco directs the Alexandria Oral History Center, the city’s newest public history program. The Center also serves as a training ground to develop and support DMV historians. Visit the Alexandria Oral History Center to witness the collaboration between communities as they strive to document and preserve the stories of the historic city!

D.C. Mondays Series
The George Washington University Museum
and The Textile Museum

For eight decades, three generations of the Pinchot family influenced the nation’s capital. In his recent book The Pinchots: A Family Saga (Sunbury Press, 2022), David S. Patterson spotlights several storied members, from Gifford, friend of Theodore Roosevelt and principal founder of the U.S. conservation movement, to Mary, murdered mistress of John F. Kennedy.

When: Monday, May 6, 2024: 12:00 PM
Where: Zoom

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Robin Bernstein (MA '99) Book Talk
Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit

Robin Bernstein is the Dillon Professor of American History and professor of African and African American studies and studies of women, gender, and sexuality at Harvard University. She is the author of Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights. Bernstein will be in conversation with Marcia Chatelain, an American academic who serves as a professor of history and African American studies at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. In 2021, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History for her book Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America, which also won a James Beard Award.

When: Sunday, May 5, 2024; 1:45 PM
Where: Politics & Prose (5015 Connecticut Ave NW,
Washington, DC, 20008)

This event is free with first come, first served seating.

Current PhD candidate Cam Cannon was recently named a 2024 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellow.

Current BA student Maureen Rafter was recently featured in GWToday's article "Graduates’ Fondest Memories of GW".

Call for Applications: Democracy House is accepting applications for their Young Leaders Summer Institute. Click here to learn more // Deadline: May 10, 2024

Call for Papers: Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas has opened their call for papers for volume XVI entitled "Science, Medicine, and the Visual Arts in Dialogue: The Ibero-American Context, Then and Now." Click here to learn more // Deadline: May 15, 2024

Call for Applications: The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History currently has four open positions. Click here to learn more // Deadline: Until Position is Filled

Call for Papers: NeMLA is currently accepting session proposals and abstracts for their 2025 Annual Conference in Philadelphia, PA. Click here to learn more // Deadline: May 15 & Sept. 30, 2024

Call for Papers: Voices: The Journal of New York Folklore is currently accepting papers for a forthcoming special issue on "Food, Identity, and Home: Exploring the Culinary Traditions of New York" Click here to learn more // Deadline: May 31, 2024

Call or Volunteers: Smithsonian's 2024 Folklife Festival is seeking student volunteers for this summer's festival from Jun. 26-Jul. 1. Click here to learn more.

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"A New Error" - Moderat

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