On Monday, March 2nd, Professor Patrice Gueniffey is going to give a talk on "Napoleon Hero."
News and Features
Annika Culver has won the 2015 Book Prize of the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies for her book Glorify the Empire : Japanese Avant-garde Propaganda in Manchukuo (University of British Columbia Press, 2013; University of Washington Press, 2014).
How much power did Hitler have, really? We are approaching this question by asking how did Hitler manage dissent? Dissent occurred only after manipulations had failed, and the immediate choice was whether to use force or to make some compromise, at least for the moment.
Prof. Charles Upchurch has been invited to deliver the inaugural Allan Horsfall Lecture at the British National Conference of LGBT History, which will be held in Manchester on February 14, 2015.
Michael Bryant will deliver the World War Two Institute's Third Annual Fall Lecture, "Speaking the Name of the Unspeakable: the West German Treblinka Trial, 1964-65.”
Edward E. Baptist (Cornell) will speak on his book The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism on Monday, Oct. 6 at 1:00 PM in Strozier Library.
We are very pleased to welcome Dr. Robin Bates to the department. Dr. Bates, a specialist in French political culture and education after 1789, received his Ph.D. in 2014 from the University of Chicago.
Last month, Oxford University Press released Prof. Alex Aviña's book Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside.
This week Katherine Mooney, our new historian of the 19th century US south, published Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack (Harvard University Press).