Publications
The Center for Presidential History seeks to publish the fruits of its labor, in collaboration with participating scholars and institutions from all over the world. Below you will find information on the books for which the CPH has secured publishing contracts, as well as the conferences and public events associated with these books.
Organized or Supported by the Center for Presidential History
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Mourning the Presidents: Loss and Legacy in American Culture, edited by Lindsay M. Chervinsky and Matthew R. Costello (University of Virginia Press, 2023) The CPH supported this project from conception, to an on-campus conference, and then to the publication of this book. |
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Southern First Ladies: Culture and Place in White House History, edited by Katherine A.S. Sibley (University Press of Kansas, 2021) This book was born out of a CPH conference in March 2018, under the able leadership of Dr. Katherine Sibley (St. Joseph's University). Southern First Ladies explores the ways in which geographical and cultural backgrounds molded a group of influential first ladies. |
 Fourteen Points for the Twenty-First Century: A Renewed Appeal for Cooperative Internationalism,
edited by Richard H. Immerman and Jeffrey A. Engel This publication began as a CPH seminar in September 2016, as we sought to reflect on the broad 21st century applications of Woodrow Wilson’s famous Fourteen Points from 1918. We gathered brilliant minds from all sorts of fields--global health, international development, investment, business consulting, history, cybersecurity, and more--and asked them: how would one of Wilson’s 14 points apply in a fresh way in the 21st century? This book is the answer. |
The Last Card: Inside George W. Bush's Decision to Surge in Iraq, edited by Hal Brands, William Inboden, Jeffrey Engel and Timothy Sayle (Cornell University Press, 15 September 2019) Based on the oral history work done by the Center for Presidential History in its Collective Memory Project, this publication is edited by four scholars including CPH Director Jeffrey Engel and Postdoctoral Fellow Timothy Andrews Sayle (now of the University of Toronto). |
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Historian in Chief: How Presidents Interpret the Past to Shape the Future, edited by Seth Cotlar and Richard J. Ellis This publication started as a conference held at SMU in October 2016, hosted by SMU’s Center for Presidential History, and contains chapters by SMU's Edward Countryman and Postdoctoral Fellow Aaron Crawford. |
 Impeachment: An American History, edited by Jon Meacham, Timothy Naftali, Peter Baker, and Jeffrey Engel Center for Presidential History Director Jeffrey Engel was an author and editor of this publication which was the subject of an event hosted by the CPH in February 2019. |
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Columns to Characters: The Presidency and the Press Enter the Digital Age, edited by Stephanie A. Martin This upcoming publication started as a conference held at SMU on February 17, 2015, co-sponsored by SMU’s Center for Presidential History, Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility, and Meadows School of the Arts’ Divisions of Communication Studies and Journalism. |
When Life Strikes the President: Scandal, Death, and Illness in the White House, edited by Jeffrey A. Engel and Thomas J. Knock This book started as a conference held at SMU on February 18-19, 2014, co-sponsored by SMU’s Center for Presidential History, Cary M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility, and John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies, as well as The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza and the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum. |
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Faith in the New Millennium: The Future of American Religion and Politics, edited by Darren Dochuk and Matthew Sutton This book stems from a conference held at SMU on November 6, 2014, in partnership with the Danforth Center for Religion and Politics at Washington University in Saint Louis. The conference was titled, "Religion and Politics in 21st Century America." |
The Four Freedoms: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Evolution of an American Idea, edited by Jeffrey A. Engel (Oxford University Press, released on 21 December 2015) View information on the accompanying conference, hosted on November 7, 2013, including video of the event, featuring contributing authors Drs. Frank Costigliola (UConn), Linda Eads (SMU), Jeffrey Engel (SMU), Matthew Jones (London School of Economics), William Hitchcock (Virginia), and Tisa Wenger (Yale). |
Books by former CPH Postdoctoral Fellows
 Mourning the Presidents: Loss and Legacy in American Culture, edited by Lindsay M. Chervinsky and Matthew R. Costello(University of Virginia Press, 2023) |
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 The Liberty to Take Fish: Atlantic Fisheries and Federal Power in Nineteenth-Century America, by Thomas Blake Earle (Cornell University Press, 2023)
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 Petroleum and Progress in Iran: Oil, Development, and the Cold War, by Gregory Brew (Cambridge University Press, 2022) |
 The Nuclear North: Histories of Canada in the Atomic Age, edited by Susan Colbourn and Timothy Andrews Sayle (University of British Colombia Press, 2020) |
 The Struggle for Iran: Oil, Autocracy, and the Cold War, 1951-1954, by David S. Painter and Gregory Brew (The University of North Carolina Press, 2022) |
 The Walls Within: The Politics of Immigration in Modern America, by Sarah R. Coleman (Princeton University Press, 2021) |
 Stranger Danger: Family Values, Childhood, and the American Carceral State, by Paul M. Renfro (Oxford University Press, 2020) |
 The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution, by Lindsay M. Chervinksy (Harvard University Press, 2020) |
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