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

Mar. 22, 2018—History Department Conference Room—255 Old Horticulture at 4:00 PM—Professor Alex Borucki, UC Irvine Department of History, “The Vernons of Newport in the River of Silver: Slave Trading and Circuits of Silver in the Atlantic-Oriented Global Markets of the Eighteenth Century"   This presentation examines… Continue Reading The Vernons of Newport in the River of Silver: Slave Trading and Circuits of Silver in the Atlantic-Oriented Global Markets of the Eighteenth Century

On the weekend of March 23-24, we will honor Dr. Lewis Siegelbaum's career as an historian of the Soviet Union with a conference on Russian and Soviet history. On Friday, March 23, Dr. Diane Koenker, professor emerita of history at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, current director of… Continue Reading SOVIET SOCIALISM IN LABOR, MATERIAL CULTURE, AND MIGRATION: A CONFERENCE HONORING LEWIS SIEGELBAUM

An Addition Event with Professor Bain, cosponsored by the History Department, Department of Teacher Education, and H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online, will be a lunch with grad students in History and Social Studies Education, hosted by Department of Teacher Education. There is no formal… Continue Reading Lunch with Professor Bain

March 30, 2018 at 2:00 PM in History Conference Room, 255 Old Horticulture,  Professor Robert Bain will present "Taking Up the Levels or Scales Problem: History Teaching’s Hidden Thinking Practice." Bain will speak on his most recent research on historical thinking and history education.  He… Continue Reading Taking Up the Levels or Scales Problem: History Teaching’s Hidden Thinking Practice