Dr. Brian Schoen, Associate Professor of History at Ohio University, gave an invited seminar at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Free University of Berlin.
The John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies is one of the most important centers in Europe for research on North America. It was founded in 1963 by the political scientist Ernst Fraenkel with the aim of providing academic expertise on North America.
Dr. Brian Schoen. Photo courtesy of the Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission
Schoen is the Fulbright-sponsored Mary Ball Washington Professor of American History at University College Dublin in Ireland for the 2014-15 academic year.
His Jan. 26 talk on “Statecraft and Secession: American Nationhood in an Era of 19th Century Global Crisis” was presented as a research colloquia at the Kennedy Institute.
Schoen argued for the need to situate crises of secession and civil war within the context of international relations, highlighting the role that foreign powers unintentionally played in shaping the start of American’s own Civil War.
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