Barbara Ransby is Associate Professor of History and African-American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Ransby published the book Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical […]
This talk is sponsored by the IHC Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. John Lee (UCSB) will provide a response. For more information contact Christine Thomas. jwil 09.ii.2009
"Triumph Over Time: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens in Post-War Greece" (1947, 42 minutes) In 1947, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens commissioned a 42-minute […]
directed by WILLIAM SMITHERS In Ida Fink's "The Table," four witnesses testify to mass murder in a small Polish-Jewish town during World War II. But does their testimony matter in […]
This German film directed by Wolfgang Becker comically portrays the collapse of communism. Suffering a heart attack and falling into a coma after seeing her son arrested during a protest, […]
Peter B. Edelman is Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center and co-chair of the Task Force on Poverty for the Center for American Progress. In a career devoted […]
Professor Dana Frank is Co-Director of the UCSC Center for Labor Studies. Her books include Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America (2008), Buy American: The Untold Story […]
Today we speak of movie stars, rock stars, all-star athletes, and even academic stars. The role of "stars" in the cult of personality has a long tradition. From the time […]
This talk is sponsored by the IHC Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. For more information contact Christine Thomas. jwil 09.ii.2009
The History of Reading Group is hosting a one-day, interdisciplinary conference that will provide a forum for sharing recent research findings in the history of reading, with an eye toward […]