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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.
Spring Semester 2009
| February 24 |
Peter Kolchin, Henry Clay Reed Professor of History, University of Delaware
Emancipation in Comparative Perspective: The U.S. South and Russia |
| March 3 |
Margaret Garb,
Washington University in St. Louis
“Nothing but Union Men”: Black and White Workers’ Alliance in the Industrial City—Chicago, 1890 |
| March 10 |
David Taylor,
University of Roehampton (London)
Faith, Doubt & Belief in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Vernon Lushington and the Religion of Humanity |
| March 17 |
Paul E. Johnson,
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of South Carolina
Northern Horse: A Consideration of American Eclipse |
| March 25 |
Amy Kaplan,
Edward W. Kane Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
In the Name of Homeland Security
* Please note: This is a special Wednesday meeting of the History Workshop |
| April 7 |
James Woodard,
Montclair State University
Retail Revolutions: U.S. Business and the Transnational Origins of Brazilian Consumer Culture |
| April 14 |
Chandra Manning,
Georgetown University
What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War |
| April 21 |
Postponed - Date to be Announced.
Suzanne Smith,
George Mason University
The African American Way of Death |
| April 28 |
Daniel Ussishkin,
Newhouse Center for the Humanities, Wellesley College
“The Vigour that Citizenship in General Appears to Lack”: Morale after the People’s War |
| May 5 |
Janneken Smucker,
University of Delaware
“A Good Amish Quilt Folded Like Money”: Negotiating Value in the Country and the City |
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