Department of History
This presentation explores the creation of the largest living archive of Black Cuban oral histories by tracing our process of collecting, transcribing, and interpreting 95 interviews with Black Cubans in the United States.
This lecture offers a new interpretation of the centrality of genealogical notions of “Arabness” (ʿurūbiyyah) in the writings of political and intellectual elites in the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada (1232-1492), the last surviving Muslim polity in medieval Iberia.
The Center for Cultural Analysis Race in Pre-Moder
"The Whole Problem with Black Feminist Criticism" by Brittney Cooper
This event is your chance as a History major or minor to learn about a wide range of career options for History majors — ranging from business to non-profits to media and the arts.
"White Supremacy, Anti-Blackness, and the Logics of Denationalization " by Kaysha Coinealdi
The RAICCS Speaker Series events feature scholars who have utilized a wide array of topical, narrative, digital, and stylistic approaches in their works in ways that unsettle disciplinary boundaries.
This seminar explores the bloody and contentious process of the abolition of slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean during three key moments and places: the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804); the Wars of Independence in Spanish South America (1810-1825); and Brazil, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, the last bastions of slavery in the hemisphere.
A talk with Lisa Ford, endowed Professor of Modern British Imperial History at George Washington University