Faculty:

Richard Breitman gave a talk entitled, "The Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act: A Progress Report," at American University. He was also a signator to a letter in The Guardian to the editor of Homes and Gardens protesting the magazine's role in the deletion from a British website of a 1938 Homes and Gardens article that was favorable to Adolf Hitler.

Valerie French gave the keynote talk, entitled "Academics and Life," at the Golden Key International Honor Society Initiation at American University. She was indicated as an honorary faculty member.

Robert Griffith was inducted as an honorary faculty member by the Golden Key International Honor Society at American University.

Laura Kamoie gave a talk entitled, "The History, Controversy, and Status of NAGPRA (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act," as part of American University's Native American Heritage Month.

Alan Kraut was the featured speaker at the National Institutes of Health History Day on "Goldberger's War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader." He was also a guest speaker at the South Florida Globalization Research Center at the University of South Florida on "Deadly Deficiencies: Dr. Joseph Goldberger's War on Disease and Depravation." He co-organized an international conference on "Transcending Borders: Migration, Ethnicity, and Incorporation in an Age of Globalism" for the Immigration and Ethnic History Society at New York University, and served as a session chair for "New Perspectives on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era: Science and Faith," at the Social Science History Association meeting. He gave a lecture at American University's Phi Alpha Theta initiation entitled, "Making Americans Healthy: Government Power and the Public's Health." Alan was also interviewed in Long Island Newsday on JFK's immigration reform, on National Public Radio's "Day to Day" on his Goldberger book, and was quoted in "Legacy of Diversity" article by Thomas Maier in New York Newsday.

Peter Kuznick was interviewed for and quoted about the international critique of the new Enola Gay exhibit by Smithsonian Magazine, Kyoto News Service, Mainichi Shimbun, BBC World News, AGence France Press, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, New York Times, USA Today, Columbus Dispatch, Tokyo Broadcasting, Akahata, CommonDreams.org, and Fox News. He appeared on the Laura Ingraham Show on Fox, and was interviewed on the Pat Whittley show on WRKO in Boston. His class, American Culture in the Nuclear Age, was filmed for Hiroshima TV. Peter was also interviewed by UPI on the cultural and social significance of 5:4 ratio of women to men in the District of Columbia, and by Agenca France Press on the legacy of John F. Kennedy and Radio Free Europe on assassination theories for the 40th anniversary of his death. He published an article entitled, "The Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki and the Invasion of Iraq: Similarities and Differences," in the Nagasaki Peace Studies Journal (November 2003), and gave a paper entitled, "Creating a 'Science of Survival': The Roots of Scientists' Opposition to the Vietnam War," at the History of Science Society meeting, Boston.

Andrew Lewis gave a paper entitled, "Environmental History in Trans-Atlantic Perspective," at the North East Conference on British Studies at Tufts University. He published an article entitled, "Gathering for the Republic: Botany and the Economies of Early National America," in Lonna Schiebinger and Claudia Swan, eds., Colonial Botany (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003), and had another accepted for publication, entitled, "Nineteenth Century Scentific Opinion of Lewis and Clark," by the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. He gave a presentation by the same name to the Lewis and Clark Heritage Trail Foundation annual meeting, and gave another presentation entitled, "American Environmental History for British Historians" at the North East Conference on British Studies. Andrew also wrote several reviews and review essays, including: of Thomas P. Slaughter, Exploring Lewis and Clark, and Stephen Ausband's Byrd's Line for the William and Mary Quarterly; of Peter Charles Hoffer's Sensory Worlds in Early America for History: An On-Line Journal; and of The Lewis and Clark Journals for the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. He served as a consultant for the American Philosophical Society exhibition, Stuffing Birds, Pressing Plants, Shaping Knowledge: Natural History in North America, 1710-1860.

Allan Lichtman appeared on "The Big Story with John Gibson," Fox News Channel, and was quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle (Bush's Iraq policy), The Jewish Week (Gephardt versus Lieberman campaigns), and El Diario, El Nuevo Herald, La Opinion, La Cronica de Hoy (US trade issues with Latin America and the EU). He was interviewed by St. Mary's Today on Maryland elections.

Eric Lohr gave an invited lecture entitled, "Writing the Russian Revolution: Thoughts on the Philosophy of History," at Lafayette University. He gave a paper entitled, "Vladimir Gessen's Theory of Poddanstvo (subjecthood/citizenship)," at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies National Conference, Toronto.

Pamela Nadell gave a paper entitled, "Engendering Dissent: Women and American Judaism," at the Women and American Religion conference, University of Chicago Divinity School. She was quoted in "Religious Women Fill Pews but Not History Books," by LeAnn Spencer, Chicago Tribune. She was filed for a TV documentary on the legacy of colonial Jewry, and was one of three scholars invited to consult on the project Yiddish Secularist Culture in America, Feinstein Center for American Jewish History, Temple University.

Lisa Hill was named to the new Board of Governors of the Civil War Philadelphia and Underground Railroad Museum.

Anna Nelson was interviewed on WAMU and quoted in the St. Louis Post Dispatch on presidential tape recordings.

Bernice Johnson Reagon was featured in the Washington Post arts section in a story on her retirement from Sweet Honey and the Rock.

Students:

Caridad de la Vega gave a paper entitled, "The Washington, D.C. Cuban Community," at the D.C. Historical Studies Conference.

Brenda Gaydosh gave a paper entitled, "Jewish Resistance and Gender Roles in the Warsaw Ghetto: Who Wore the Pants?" at the Conference on the Holocaust and Perspectives of Gender, Class, and Race, Middle Tennessee State University.

Meredith Hindley was invited to present a paper at the June 2004 international conference on "Food Production and Food Consumption in Europe, 1914-1950," sponsored by the Centre for European Conflict and Identity History, University of South Denmark.

Walter Montano received a 2004 ORISE/Department of Defense MIA/POW Research Fellowship.

David Onkst served as researcher and writer/consultant for the Space Shuttle Columbia Accident Investigation Board.

Dana Schaffer published an article entitled, "The Washington 1968 Riots in History and Memory," in Washington History, Fall/Winter 2003-2004.

Brenda Gaydosh, Alisa Kramer, and Jim Wertz received CAS Graduate Travel Awards for presentations of papers at national conferences.

Alumni:

Kevin Malecek won his election for City Council, District 3, in Willoughby Hills, Ohio, over an incumbent by a margin of 71% to 29%. Greg Gadren played a key role in the campaign.