She was left out of Civil Rights history, erased by jazz critics, and forgotten by most Americans because no one knew how to categorize her greatness.  But throughout the 1960s, Nina Simone was both loved and feared for her outspoken vision of Black Freedom.  Her musical proclamations like "Mississippi Goddam", and her iconic style gave voice to people of all colors facing oppression, and continues to empower today with its unrelenting appeal for justice.  Now the story of America?s most overlooked musical genius is finally brought to light in the acclaimed...

Sharon Harley, Associate Professor, African American Studies, University of Maryland

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Re-Reading Du Bois's Life and Scholarship Through a Gendered Lens

Free and open to the public.  A Q+A session will follow each talk.  Please feel free to bring a lunch.

David Geggus, Professor of History, University of Florida

The Saint Domingue Slave Revolt and the Rise of Toussaint Louverture

February 23rd: Saint Domingue

February 24th: The 1791 Uprising 

February 25th: The Rise of Toussaint Louverture  

David Geggus, Professor of History, University of Florida

The Saint Domingue Slave Revolt and the Rise of Toussaint Louverture

February 23rd: Saint Domingue

February 24th: The 1791 Uprising 

February 25th: The Rise of Toussaint Louverture  

David Geggus, Professor of History, University of Florida

The Saint Domingue Slave Revolt and the Rise of Toussaint Louverture

February 23rd: Saint Domingue

February 24th: The 1791 Uprising 

February 25th: The Rise of Toussaint Louverture  

Writers Greg Tate and Greg Thomas will present an epistolary exchange on their individual and mutual legacies that brings to life their contemporary relevance.

A book talk with author Celeste-Marie Bernier

For self-made artist and soldier Horace Pippin—who served in the 369th all-black infantry in World War I until he was wounded—war provided a formative experience that defined much of his life and work. His ability to transform combat service into canvases of emotive power, psychological depth, and realism showed not only how he viewed the world but also his mastery as a painter. In Suffering and Sunset, Celeste-Marie Bernier painstakingly traces Pippin’s life story of art as a life story of war....

Film screening of Field Niggas followed by Q&A with Director Khalik Allah, moderated by Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy at Harvard University Tommie Shelby.

Presented by Film Series at the University of Massachusetts Boston, in partnership with the Hutchins Center and Harris House at Harvard University

In a speech by Malcolm X, the “field negroes” were the most downtrodden of slaves: those forced to work the fields...

The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial

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Harvard Book Store and the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research welcome Susan E. Goodman, author of over thirty nonfiction children's books, and award-winning illustrator E. B. Lewis for a presentation of their book The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial. They will discuss what goes into the creation and publication of children's books, the collaboration between author and...

Theda Skocpol and Alex Hertel-Fernandez

In Washington, DC and the states, Republicans push unpopular policies – and sometimes also oppose legislation favored by prominent business groups. Why is that? New research highlights resource shifts on the U.S. right and the growing influence of the Koch network, a coordinated set of big donors, lobbying groups, and constituency organizations that now rivals America’s political parties. 

 Please join us for the CAPS Seminar with Theda Skocpol and Alex Hertel-Fernandez as they present...

Brian Copenhaver, UCLA

András Németh (Vatican Library)

cosponsored by the Medieval History Workshop and the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Book History. 

Heather Wolfe, Folger Library

Co-sponsored by the Renaissance Colloquium of the English Department, the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Book History and the Early Modern European History Workshop.

Michael Kelly (Head of Archives and Special Collections, Amherst College), followed by a comment by David Hall (emeritus, Harvard Divinity School).

Sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Book History.