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Jane Kamensky wins Annibel Jenkins Biography Prize and is among finalists for PEN award

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We would like to congratulate Jane Kamensky, Professor of History and Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library. Her book A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley, has been selected as winner of the 2015-17...

Radcliffe: John Singleton Copley's Declaration of Interdependence | Jane Kamensky

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Jane Kamensky Professor of History Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library In this lecture, Jane Kamensky, Professor of History at Harvard and Pforzheimer Foundation Director of Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library, looks at...

EMR: Roundtable Seminar: "Racial Capitalism and American Empire | Allan Lumba

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Allan Lumba Postdoctoral Fellow in Global American Studies Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History Harvard University Tessa Lowinske Desmond, PhD Program Administrator and Academic Advisor Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights House...

What is the Future of the History PhD?

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In April 2014, professor of history Daniel Smail of Harvard University’s Department of History organized a panel discussion with three experts in the humanities: Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian at Harvard...

Radcliffe: Seven Stories for Seven Decades: Tales from the Vault Spanning Schlesinger Library’s First 75 Years A Schlesinger Library 75th Anniversary Event

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In this illustrated lecture, Jane Kamensky, professor of history and the Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, uses seven jewels from the library’s collections to tell fresh stories of...

Radcliffe Institute: The Ornithologist

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Fellow's Presentation Lecture by João Pedro Rodrigues 2014-2015 Radcliffe-Harvard Film Study Center Fellow and Carl and LIly Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow Part of the 2014–2015 Fellows' Presentation Series During his fellowship, João Pedro Rodrigues is...

(Con-IH) "State of the Field of Gender and Empire"

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Harvard Graduate Conference on International History (Con-IH) conih.fas.harvard.edu Durba Ghosh, Professor of History at Cornell University Genevieve Clutario , Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of American Studies at Wellesley College Maile Arvin...

History and Literature's Spring Distinguished Lecture: Professor Jane Kamensky

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Professor Jane Kamensky will give this semester's Distinguished Lecture on History and Literature on Thursday, February 8 from 6:00-7:30 pm in the Thompson Room (room 110) in the Barker Center (12 Quincy St.). Jane Kamensky is Professor of History at...

Radcliffe on the Road: Rescuing the Past and Future at Jefferson’s Monticello

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Dean Lizabeth Cohen of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University invites you to attend a reception and lecture by: ANNETTE GORDON-REED JD ’84, RI ’12, ’14 Winner of a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship...

Robert Darnton

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Assistant: Arlene Navarro  arlene_navarro [at] harvard.edu

Robert Darnton was educated at Harvard University (A.B., 1960) and Oxford University (B.Phil., 1962; D. Phil., 1964), where he was a Rhodes scholar. After a brief stint as a reporter for The New...

Warren Center/WIGH Seminar: Sir Hilary Beckles, “Reparatory Justice for Global Black Enslavement: The Greatest Political Movement of the 21st Century”

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Topic: “Reparatory Justice for Global Black Enslavement: The Greatest Political Movement of the 21st Century” Speaker: Sir Hilary Beckles , Vice-chancellor of the University of the West Indes; Chairman of the Caribbean Community[CARICOM] Commission on...

History is Everything, Everything is History

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Jane Kamensky, Professor of History, Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library Talk Title: “Making History at the Archives” Intisar Rabb, Professor of Law, Professor of History, Director, Islamic Legal Studies Program Talk...