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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…

In spring 1941, the Iraqis and the Vichy French in Syria made agreements with the Axis powers that might have had disastrous consequences for the Allied war effort if the Allies hadn’t improvised a jerrybuilt force to respond. In a Baker-Nord Center for Humanities Faculty-Work-in-Progress talk,…

The Department of History will host Todd Michney, assistant professor in the School of History at Georgia Institute of Technology, as part of its Guest Lecture Series. Michney will present “Best Unaddressed Location in the Nation: Mapping Cleveland's Significance for African American Urban…

The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host Susanne Vees-Gulani, associate professor of German, for a Faculty Work-in-Progress presentation Tuesday, Sept. 26, at 4:30 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206. Vees-Gulani will give a talk titled “The Air War in the Museum: The Bombing of Dresden as…

Ben Gurion history professor Benny Morris, a leading member of Israel’s “New Historians,” who challenged mainstream Israeli historiography and sparked new public discussion on the Israel-Palestine issue, will discuss the Six-Day War’s historical and contemporary implications to mark the war’s 50th…

The African American Postdoctoral Program and Department of History will host a lecture with David Varel, the Postdoctoral Fellow in African American Studies. Varel will present “Black Scholars and the Struggle Against Scientific Racism: The Case of Allison Davis 1902-1983” Friday, April 28, from…

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