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Dr. Helen Zoe Veit’s op-ed column, “Time to Revive Home Ec” was featured in the New York Times on September 6:  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/06/opinion/revive-home-economics-classes-to-fight-obesity.html.  The same day she was a guest on NPR’s Talk of the Nation. You can listen to the interview here: Talk of the… Continue Reading Dr. Veit featured in New York Times, NPR

Dr. Lewis Siegelbaum’s latest book, The Socialist Car, comes out October 20, 2011, in hardcover and paperback. About the book: The Socialist Car interprets its subjects broadly. Combining expertise in the history of technology and urban planning with social and cultural history, it reflects and… Continue Reading The Socialist Car by Professor Lewis Siegelbaum

Leslie Page Moch gave the plenary address at the Summer Seminar “Europe – Migration – Identity” on August 24; the seminar, sponsored by the German Historical Institute and the University of Minnesota is being held on the University of Minnesota campus, 24-27 August.  Moch’s talk… Continue Reading Professor Leslie Page Moch gives plenary address

The Department is please to announce that Dr. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall and Dr. Walter Hawthorne have launched the Atlantic Slave Database Network site. The description of the project and plan for its full release is available here: http://slavebiographies.org/project/