UpDate - Vol. 13, No. 27, Page 4
April 14, 1994
'Ebony Tree' topic of campus lecture

     David Hackett Fischer, Earl Warren Professor of History at Brandeis
University, will discuss "The Ebony Tree: Slavery, Freedom and
Afro-American Folkways" at the University April 21.
     His talk, presented as the 1994 J. Joseph Huthmacher Memorial Lecture,
will be held at 7:30 p.m. in 125 Clayton Hall. The program is free and open
to the public.
     Author of several important books, Fischer has influenced an entire
generation of American historians with his publication in 1970 of
Historians' Fallacies: Toward a Logic of Historical Thought. His recent
work, Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America, published by Oxford
University Press in 1989, is a massive study of colonial culture and its
lingering influence today. The book has received wide acclaim and promises
to be as influential as Historians' Fallacies.
     Fischer's lecture is part of an ongoing series presented annually in
memory of the late Dr. Huthmacher, who served as Richards Professor of
American History at the University until his death in 1981. Huthmacher was
a leading national scholar on the politics and culture of the recent past,
and this series is designed to honor his ideals of scholarship.
     Other sponsors of the talk include the University's Department of
History and the Faculty Senate Committee on Cultural Affairs and Public
Events.