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The 19th Annual Snyder lecture will take place at 10 a.m. March 2nd 2011 in Masters hall in the Georgia Center The lecture will be delivered by Nwando Achebe, History professor at the Michigan State University. Professor Achebe’s scholarship and research interests involve the use of oral… Continue Reading 19th Annual Darl Snyder Lecture

Dr. LaShawn Harris will speak tomorrow, Thursday, February 10, at 4:00 in Morrill Hall, room 340. Her presentation is titled: “Playing the Numbers: Madame Stephanie St. Clair and African American Numbers Culture in Halrem during the Inter-War Period.” Refreshments will be provided.

Please join us on Thursday, February 10, 2011 at 12:00pm, in Morrill Hall room 340 for the second in this semester’s Lunch & Learn: Teaching History sessions sponsored by H-Net and the Department of History. Light lunch will be provided.  Please RSVP if possible so… Continue Reading Lunch & Learn: Teaching History, 2/10/2011 1:00pm

Professors Helen Veit, Charles Keith and Liam Brockey have received MSU HARP (Humanities and Arts Research Program) Awards for research on their latest projects.  Veit’s project is titled “Victory over Ourselves: American Food in the Era of the Great War”; Keith’s is “Catholic Vietnam: A… Continue Reading Professors Veit, Keith and Brockey receive MSU HARP Awards

Professor Sleeper-Smith will be the plenary speaker at the Early Modern Women conference in Milwaukee, June 21-23, 2012.  The conference is sponsored by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women: http://www.ssemw.org/