Mar. 12, 2018 at 4:00 PM  in History Conference Room, 255 Old Horticulture, Professor Tisa Wenger of Yale University will present “Race, Empire, and American Religious Freedom.”   The ideal of religious freedom is so often presented as a timeless and self-evident American ideal. But… Continue Reading Race, Empire, and American Religious Freedom

Mar. 16, 2018 at 1:00 PM in the History Conference Room, 255 Old Horticulture—Professor Jesse Hoffnung-Garskoff, University of Michigan, “Migration, Maps, and Revolution: Telling a Transnational History of Race in a Digital Age.”   Abstract: In his forthcoming book, Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof tells the stories of a group… Continue Reading Migration, Maps, and Revolution: Telling a Transnational History of Race in a Digital Age

Mar. 21, 2018—3:00 PM in 201 International Center—Professor Alex Borucki, UC Irvine History Department, “Digital Humanities and African Diaspora Studies: The Intra-American Slave Trade Database”   From the publication of Phillip Curtin’s The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census in 1969 to the launching of the… Continue Reading Digital Humanities and African Diaspora Studies: The Intra-American Slave Trade Database