Aug. 28, 2002--The fall semester History Workshop in Technology, Society and Culture explores topics that range from grief and genealogy in early America to the role of gender and politics in the building of a major American urban shopping area at the turn of the 20th century.

Bring your lunch to the Tuesday afternoon workshops, which begin at 12:15 p.m., and end at 1:45 p.m., in 203 Munroe Hall. The workshops, scheduled on the following dates, include:

• “Alternative Parents: Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: Rethinking the Racial Origins of the American Republic,” Clarence Walker, University of California, Sept. 17;
  
  
• “Do Not Eat the Snow: Instructions for Women Athletes in America, 1880-1920,” Nancy Rosoff, Rutgers University, Sept. 24;
  
  
• “A Flood of Impure Lava: Saint Dominguan Refugees in the United States, 1791-1820,” Ashli White, Columbia University, Oct. 1;
  
  
• “Every Class of Passenger Expects the Latest Improvements: Architectures of Transatlantic Passenger Liners, 1870-1914,” Douglas Jerolimov, a Hagley Fellow in the UD-Hagley Program, Oct. 8;
  
  
• “Reflections on a Cultural Category in Modern Europe,” Ronald Schechter, College of William and Mary, Oct. 15;
  
  
• “Everyday Space and the Public Sphere: Gender, Politics and the Downtown Shopping District in Early 20th-Century San Francisco,” Jessica E. Sewell, New York University, Oct. 22;
  
  
• “Writing a World History Textbook,” Robert Tignor and Jeremy Adelman, Princeton University, Oct. 29;
• “Death and the Ancestral Connection: Genealogy, Grief and Commemoration in Early America,” Karin Wulf, American University, Nov. 12;
  
  
• “Shortcuts to Learning: A History of the American Quest for Fast and Painless Education,” Robert Hampel, professor of education, Nov. 19;
  
  
• “Black Women, Crime and Colored Amazons in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910,” Kali Nicole Gross, Ursinus College, Nov. 26.

For more information, call 832-2371.