“As an African American educator, one of my main concerns is that we all need tobe liberated from schooling that perpetuates America’s myths,” King has written. “One such myth that constrains our freedom of thought and our ability to pursue social justice concerns our national identity.” Her lecture will examine ways to break from these […]

This talk will focus on Prof. Taylor's new research project on African Americans during the War of 1812 and their dispersal throughout the Anglo-Atlantic world, including Canada's maritimes, the Caribbean, and Great Britain. Taylor is much admired by colonial and Early National period US historians, and familiar to many of our grad students who have […]

The chance discovery of a unique wool merchant's account book in the muniment room of Westminster Abbey gives us a detailed picture of the trading networks and business contacts of a wool monger who lived at Moreton-in-Marsh on the edge of the Cotswold Hills. Through him we gain an insight into a society of sheep […]