Bill Blair, Paul Finkelman, Amy GreenbergProfessor Finkelman presented a lecture at
Penn State on November 16, 2007, entitled
"Suppressing the African Slave Trade:
The Limits of Legislation, 1794-1865."
| Calendar of Events | |||
Date |
Event |
Time |
Location |
September 18-21, 2008 |
16th Annual Penn State Battlefield Study Tour: Stonewall Jackson's Way: The Valley Campaign of 1862 (registration and additional details) |
Staunton, VA |
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October 3, 2008 |
Richards Center Lecture Series: Douglas Egerton, LeMoyne College "Death and Liberty: African Americans in Revolutionary America" |
4:00 pm |
102 Weaver |
October 21, 2008 |
History Dept. Modern Latin America Series: George Reid Andrews, University of Pittsburgh "Subjectivity, Objectivity, Fluidity and Stasis: Thinking (and Writing) about Race in Latin America" |
4:00 pm |
102 Weaver |
October 23, 2008 |
1808 Bicentennial Symposium: Sylviane Diouf, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Co-sponsored by The Center for American Literary Studies |
TBA |
TBA |
October 31, 2008 |
4:00 pm |
102 Weaver |
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November 7, 2008 |
History Dept. Modern Latin America Series: Marixa Lasso, Case Western University "Anticolonialism and Racial Equality in the Americas during the Age of Revolution" |
4:00 pm |
102 Weaver |
January 23, 2009 |
Richards Center Graduate Student Workshop: James Adam Rogers "Union Odyssey: The Demobilization and Readjustment of Pennsylvania's Civil War Veterans" Respondents: Rachel Moran, Alfred Wallace |
4:00 pm |
302 Pond |
February 27, 2009 |
Richards Center Lecture Series: Rosanne Adderley, Vanderbilt University "Abolition, Amelioration and Sexual Exploitation: Female African 'Apprentices' in the British Caribbean, 1810-1830" Co-sponsored by the History Department |
4:00 pm |
302 Pond |
March 19, 20, and 21, 2009 |
The Steven and Janice Brose Distinguished Lecture Series: Carol Reardon, Penn State (additional details to follow) |
TBA |
Foster Auditorium, Pattee Library |
April 3, 2009 |
Richards Center Lecture Series: Kathi Kern, University of Kentucky "Religious Identities and Women's Rights in the Gilded Age" |
4:00 pm |
102 Weaver |
April 10, 2009 |
History Dept. Modern Latin America Series: Moon-Ho Jung, University of Washington "Asia and the Islands of the Sea: Revisiting the Color Line Across Imperial and National Borders" |
4:00 pm |
102 Weaver |
April 24, 2009 |
History Dept. Modern Latin America Series: Anne Macpherson, SUNY College at Brockport "Caribbean Women's History and Historiography: Doing Comparative Research" |
4:00 pm |
102 Weaver |
| Names in the News |
| William Blair reviewed This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust for the Philadelphia Inquirer, March 2008. (full review) |
| Mark E. Neely, Jr. lastest book, The Civil War and the Limits of Destruction, was published by Harvard University Press, November 2007. |
| In the fall 2007, Carol Reardon was invited to serve as a member of the Secretary of the Navy's Advisory Subcommittee on Naval History. |
| Anthony Kaye's, book, Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South, was published by The University of North Carolina Press in September 2007. |
| Professor Carol Reardon was recently awarded the George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching from Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence at Penn State. (Spring 2007) | Mark Noll, the 2003 Steven and Janice Brose Distinguished Lecturer at the Richards Civil War Era Center, was recently awarded a National Humanities Medal by President George W. Bush. (November 9, 2006) |
| Four Richards Center Affiliated Faculty promoted to Professor: William A. Blair, Lori D. Ginzberg, Amy S. Greenberg, Carol A. Reardon. (Summer 2006) |
| Lori Ginzberg, professor of history and women's studies, received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship Award for 2006-2007 to research a biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. |
| Richards Center Director William Blair was recently interviewed by Research Penn State about "Who Won the Civil War?" |
| Lori Ginzberg's latest book, Untidy Origins: A Story of Woman's Rights in Antebellum New York, was published in the Spring/Summer 2005 by UNC Press. |
| Amy Greenberg's latest book, Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire was published in June 2005 by Cambridge University Press. |
| The manuscript of Mark E. Neely's 2002 Brose Lecture, The Boundaries of American Political Culture in the Civil War Era, was published in September 2005 by UNC Press. |
| Carol Reardon's latest book, Launch the Intruders: A Naval Attack Squadron in the Vietnam War, 1972, is now in print from the University Press of Kansas. It has been chosen as a featured offering of the Military Book Club. |
| In March 2005, Carol Reardon became the first woman president of the Society for Military History. She will serve in this elected post until the conclusion of SMH's annual meeting in 2007. |