History

Humanities Forum Marjoleine Kars, Dresher Center fellow, chair and associate professor of history, UMBC Wednesday, December 2 | 4 pm Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery  In 1763-1764, five thousand slaves in the Dutch colony of Berbice in South America rebelled. The extraordinary judicial records of the uprising allow for an examination of the internal dynamics of …

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Wednesday, February 6, 4:00 p.m. Administration Building, Room 711 Anne Rubin, associate professor of history Southern Belles and Brother Masons:  Stories of Sherman’s March Sponsored by the Department of History Rubin is an expert on the Civil war and the creator of Mapping Memory: Sherman’s March and America. The talk is part of the history …

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Wednesday, November 7, 4:00 p.m. Administration building Room 711 Trisha Okine ’12, M.A. Public History “Beyond the Phat Beats and Rhymes: Hip Hop, American Society, and the African American Struggle” History This talk is based on the thesis of Trisha Okine ’12, M.A. Public History. She has previously spoken at the State Department last summer …

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