Theresa Singleton, Syracuse University

The slave runaway (maroon) landscape was a vast area extending from plantations to distanced hinterlands runaways moved through, lived, and interacted with slave, Amerindian, and non-slaveholding Spanish communities with whom they established alliances, social networks, and trade relationships. I discuss my ongoing research aimed toward locating slave runaway sites in southwestern Dominican Republic beginning with the first recorded African slave revolt in 1521 until the abolition of slavery in 1822. Although the ephemeral archaeological...

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Observatorio de la lengua española y las culturas hispánicas en los Estados Unidos

OPEN HOUSE – 5^TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION...

The conference, which will be held on Saturday, Sept. 23, is entitled “Populist Plutocrats: Lessons from Around the World.” The conference theme will emphasize what Americans might learn about the current political situation here from other countries (such as Italy, Thailand, the Philippines, Peru, and South Africa); speakers include leading scholars, politicians, journalists and activists from around the world (including, among others, Abhisit Vejjajiva, the former Prime Minister of Thailand, and Jose Ugaz, the Chair of Transparency International who...

Award-winning historian Nancy MacLean will talk about her new and provocative book, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America. The book connects the mid-twentieth-century backlash to the New Deal and school desegregation and the anti-democratic policies favored by many of today's economic and political elites.

Fall...

we begin the formal observance of our Bicentennial by remembering and honoring the enslaved whose labor created wealth that made possible the founding of Harvard Law School. Please join President Drew Faust, Professor Annette Gordon-Reed, Professor Janet Halley, and me at the Law School’s Crossroads at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday for the dedication of a memorial in their honor. The dedication immediately follows a talk and panel discussion open to all members of the Harvard Law School community on The History of Harvard Law School (Milstein West, 5 p.m.)....

Omer Bartov
John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History,...

Hizky Shoham
Lecturer, The Interdisciplinary Program for Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies, Bar-...

Gavriel Rosenfeld
Professor of...

New Directions in European History Study Group

Pernille Røge
Assistant Professor , Department of History, University of Pittsburgh

John M. Efron

Koret Professor of Jewish History, University of Berkeley...

James McSpadden
PhD Student in History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Affiliate, CES, Harvard University

Aida Vidan
Student Programs Advisor, Center for European Studies, Harvard

Contact: 

Aida Vidan: avidan@fas.harvard.edu

Harvard Graduate...