- Graduate student Khaled Esseissah participated in “Working with African Arabic Script Manuscripts Workshop,” held August 14-17, 2017, at Northwestern University.
- Peter Guardino's new book, The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War, has been released by Harvard University Press. On August 3, Peter gave the talk "De cuantas maneras estén a su alcance: Las raíces de la resistencia de los habitantes de la Ciudad de México a la invasión norteamericana de 1847," at the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás Hidalgo in Morelia, Mexico.
- Padraic Kenney presented a keynote address at the Parnell Summer School in Avondale, Co. Wicklow, Ireland, entitled "'A prisoner must reverse their whole system': Irish Political Prisoners from the Fenians to the Troubles."
- Ed Linenthal will offer a public lecture on August 26 in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Antietam National Cemetery, sponsored by the National Park Service, Shepherd University and Eastern National. On September 13, he will participate in a town hall forum sponsored by the OnePulse Foundation in Orlando, Florida, focusing on a memorial process for those murdered in the Pulse Nightclub attack in June 2016.
- Rob Schneider's book manuscript, "Dignified Retreat: Writers and Intellectuals in the Age of Richelieu," is under contract with Oxford University Press.
- Rebecca Spang's essay, 'The Smart Money,' was the lead review in the books section of the Financial Times (July 8-9, 2017), on-line here.
- Carl Weinberg published “`This Will Sound Nutty’: Conspiracy Theory in Democracy in Chains,” a contribution to a Society for U.S. Intellectual History roundtable on Nancy MacLean's new book, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America (2017).
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