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History
Workshop Schedule
The Workshop meets in 203 Munroe Hall at 12:15 pm on Tuesdays. Presentations begin at 12:30 pm and are followed by discussion ending at 1:45 pm sharp. Bring a lunch. All are welcome! For further information, please call (302) 831-2371. Several of the presentations are available as podcasts from iTunesU (click on History Workshop tab).
Spring 2013: Emancipation Semester |
| February 12 |
Peter Kolchin, University of Delaware, The Other Emancipation of the 1860s: Freeing Russia’s Serfs |
| February 19 |
Adrian López-Denis, University of Delaware, Abolition and its Legacies in the Spanish Caribbean |
| February 26 |
Brett Gadsden, Emory University, Delaware, Desegregation, and the Myth of American Sectionalism |
| March 5 |
Patricia Lott, Northwestern University, When was the ‘First
Emancipation’? Gradual Abolition and Slavery’s Afterlife in theNineteenth-Century North |
| March 12 |
Nicole Myers Turner, University of Pennsylvania, Powering the Pulpit: Religion, Race, and Gender in Post-Emancipation Black Churches |
| March 19 |
P. Gabrielle Foreman, University of Delaware, 1857: Dave the Potter’s August Pots/ Information Wanted and Dred Scott |
| March 26 |
Spring Break: No Workshop |
| April 2 |
Eve Buckley, University of Delaware, Brazilian Slave Emancipation (1888) and the Twentieth-Century Politics of Afro-Brazilian Inclusion |
| April 9 |
J. Ritchie Garrison, University of Delaware, Emancipation by Force: Black Regiments in the Charleston Theater, 1863-65 |
| April 19 |
David Blight, Yale University, Title TBA
**This special session of History Workshop meets on Friday, April 19, at 2:00 pm** |
| April 23 |
Howard B. Johnson, University of Delaware, Freedpersons as Retailers: The Evolution of a Retailing Network in Post-Emancipation Jamaica |
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