“Only the Clothes on Her Back:  Women, Textiles, and National Development in the Nineteenth-Century United States”

Laura Edwards is a Professor of History at Duke...

What's 'Woman' Got to Do with It? Rethinking the History of American Activism

Annelise Orleck is Professor of History at Dartmouth College.

A "Negro Wench" and "Two Pretty Panis": Gender and Slavery in Early Detroit
Tiya Miles is with the University of Michigan

Sponsored by the Harvard History Department, the Harvard German Department, the German Science Foundation (DFG) and the Henkel Foundation (Düsseldorf), an interdisciplinary two-place conference on Historicizing Ignorance in Late Medieval and Early Modern History will take place at Harvard University, Robinson Hall and the German Historical Institute, Paris.

The conference seeks to address how ignorance about phenomena in different epistemic fields of the late medieval and early modern world was recognized (or not), used and coped with, differently from modern times. The Harvard part...

Welcome Back BBQ for Students, Faculty, and Staff of the History Department!

RSVP to the Paperless Post email you received or
email Kimberly O'Hagan (kohagan [at] fas.harvard.edu).

The event will take place on the Robinson Hall Lawn

*In the event of inclement weather, it will be held in the Robinson Hall Great Space.

This deadline has been extended to September 12, 2014. To submit a proposal, see instructions on the ConIH Website

James...

For a list of topics and presenters see the webpage....