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Dr. Holden’s current work on Southampton County foregrounds the community that produced the rebellion to better understand the local experience of loss, grief, and slave resistance. Central to her approach is the place of African American women, free and enslaved, in that community. Dr. Holden’s… Continue Reading “Free Issues”: Free Women of Color in Nat Turner’s Southampton County presented by Dr. Vanessa Holden

The “Migration without Borders” conference opened Friday, October 4 with a lively plenary address by Donna Gabaccia of the University of Minnesota on the freedom to move that generated equally lively questions.  Afterward conference attendees gathered for dinner.  On Saturday morning the conference re-convened for… Continue Reading Graduate Student Conference is a Great Success

MSU Fall 2013 Speaker Series Event Flyer

Leslie Moch will speak on November 7 and 8 at the Migration, Identity, & State Research Collective at Washington University. The talk, coauthored with Lewis Siegelbaum, will be “Moving in Russia: Repertoires of Migration in the Soviet Era.”  Dr. Moch will follow this public talk… Continue Reading Leslie Moch Invited to Migration, Identity, & State Research Collective at Washington University