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Adding 20 volunteer editors—and a stable of new contributors—Cleveland’s own encyclopedia embarks on an era of expansion and engagement Nobody knows Cleveland’s history quite like Clevelanders. With this in mind, the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History will add up to 20 volunteer editors to direct…

The Department of History will host a lecture by Nora Krinitsky, a postdoctoral fellow in African-American studies. Her lecture, titled “Race, Crime and the Color Line in Prohibition-Era Chicago,” will take place Wednesday, May 2, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. in Mather House, Room 100. About the…

The Armenian Cultural Organization and the Near East Foundation will show They Shall Not Perish: The Story of Near East Relief as a part of the 2018 Cleveland Humanities Festival: Health. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Kenneth Ledford, associate professor of history, and Shant…

The Department of History’s African American Postdoctoral Program will host a guest lecture titled “The Speculative Archive of Prison Abolition.” Historian Dan Berger will give this presentation Monday, April 2, from 11:25 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. in Mather House, Room 100. About the talk Prison is a…

Prize-winning author and public commentator Marlon James concludes the spring Think Forum lecture series at Case Western Reserve University Thursday, March 29, at 6 p.m. at the Maltz Performing Arts Center with his talk "What Fiction Can Teach Us That History Does Not." In this talk, James will…

Renée M. Sentilles, associate professor of history, will present the lecture “Tomboys and the Blossoming of Juvenile Fiction.” The lecture, sponsored by the Kelvin Smith Library, will take place Thursday, March 29, at 4 p.m. in Kelvin Smith Library, Dampeer Room. This free and open-to-the-public…

Jill Lepore, historian and writer for The New Yorker, kicks off the spring Think Forum series with her talk “American History from Beginning to End” Wednesday, March 7, at 6 p.m. at The Milton and Tamar Maltz Performing Arts Center at The Temple – Tifereth Israel. Photo credit: Dari…

John Broich, an associate professor of history, wrote the true account of the British Royal Navy’s crusade to put an end to the African slave trade in a book titled Squadron: Ending the African Slave Trade. Book description Despite the British being early abolitionists, a significant slave trade…

In honor of the Western Reserve Historical Society’s 150th anniversary, John Grabowski, the Krieger-Mueller Joint Professor in History, wrote a book titled Cleveland A to Z: Historical Essentials for Newcomers and Residents in Northeast Ohio. Published by the historical society, the book details…

Ted Steinberg, the Adeline Barry Davee Distinguished Professor of History and professor of law, examined the connection between capitalism, the environment and the U.S. government in a recent piece for a Zimbabwe newspaper, The Herald. In the article titled "Capitalism, the State and the drowning…