Week of Events
Note-taking and -organizing for historians
Note-taking and -organizing for historians
Dear History Graduate Students: I plan to devote two-hours of my History 223A (Research Seminar in Modern Europe) to the art of note-taking and note-organizing. I decided to open this session to interested graduate students. The workshop will be held at 4-6, Monday, January 23, in HSSB 4041. Roger Eardly-Pryor will demonstrate how to take […]
Domestic Production and Subsistence in an Ubaid Household in Upper Mesopotamia
Domestic Production and Subsistence in an Ubaid Household in Upper Mesopotamia
It was harvest season. Much of the grain was already processed and had been loaded into one of the storerooms and winnowing was underway in the backyard. The fire started in one of the storerooms. It quickly spread igniting the wooden beams that supported the flat clay roof, which roof collapsed crushing the wooden shelves […]
Civil Rights and the Cold War At Home: Post-War Activism, Anticommunism, and the Decline of the Left
Civil Rights and the Cold War At Home: Post-War Activism, Anticommunism, and the Decline of the Left
Arnesen offers a provocative talk on the relationship between the idea of a “long civil rights movement” and the historiographical reappraisal of the role played by the Communist Party in post World War II American politics and society. Arnesen is the author of Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality (2001) […]