EIHS Lecture: “Ordered to Leave”: Expulsion and the Origins of Jim Crow in Small-town America, 1890s-1920s
Stephen Berrey (University of Michigan)
Why is small-town America overwhelmingly white? While we know much about the history of Jim Crow in the South and increasingly in the urban...
EIHS Symposium: The Politics of Memory and Palestinian Struggles for History: An Interdisciplinary Conversation
Diana Abouali (Arab American National Museum), Rochelle Davis (Georgetown University)
The construction of memory and the ongoing reinterpretation of history are living processes. How have Palestinians, in historic Palestine...
EIHS Lecture: Imagine Lagos: Rethinking the Histories of West African Cities in the Nineteenth Century
Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi (Howard University)
Urban questions have taken on a new urgency, as cities like Lagos grow faster and more intensely, seemingly every day. But how should we...
EIHS Lecture: Ottoman Roots
Samuel Dolbee (Vanderbilt University)
Fruit trees planted in the late Ottoman Empire may have lived for over a century after the polity they grew up in disappeared from maps....
EIHS Lecture: The Tribute: The 1963 March on Washington and the Gendered Politics of Freedom
Marcia Chatelain (University of Pennsylvania)
The 1963 March on Washington has become the standard bearer in American public memory for non-violent, political demonstration. With Martin...
Past Matters: Environments and Methods in Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean
A Conference in Honor of Paolo Squatriti
The field of medieval environmental history has grown immensely from its inception 30 years ago. While scholars of the classical past and...
Past Matters: Environments and Methods in Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean
A Conference in Honor of Paolo Squatriti
The field of medieval environmental history has grown immensely from its inception 30 years ago. While scholars of the classical past and...
EIHS Lecture: Race and Reckoning in the United States and Germany: Lessons from a Comparative Approach
Rita Chin (University of Michigan)
German atonement for the Holocaust is widely hailed as a paragon of national reckoning, and African American intellectuals such as Ta-Nehisi...
EIHS Lecture: The Transatlantic Slave Trade & the (Multi) Racial Origins of Early Black Print in Ghana
Carina Ray (University of Michigan)
Understanding how Afro-Europeans came to play leading roles in establishing the African-owned press in colonial Ghana, and why they...
EIHS Symposium
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EIHS Dr. Stephen and Lee Gork Endowed Lecture: Unpaid Debts: Non-Aligned Socialism and the Rise of Financialization after Empire
Giuliana Chamedes (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
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EIHS Lecture: Animal Rights and Slave Rights: Linked Discourses in Early Islamic Thought
Kristina Richardson (University of Virginia)
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EIHS Lecture: Student Activism Across Borders: China and the Communist World in the Late 1950s
Yidi Wu (Elon University)
Yidi Wu is the O’Briant Developing Professor and Associate Professor of History at Elon University. Her first book, Student Activism...
EIHS Workshop: Remediating Educational Institutions
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