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Ed Mathieu to present 'Maps as Lenses on Nazism, 1772 to 1945' on Feb. 23 2017-02-10
Historian Benjamin Madley to Discuss his Research on Native American Genocide in California Jan. 18 at Western 2016-12-22
After the Know-Nothings

In the 1850s, the anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic Know-Nothing Party swept New England. They won local offices and gained the statehouse and almost every seat in Massachusetts’s legislature in 1854. They showed strong in Pennsylvania and New York. Many observers thought that the Know-…

2016-11-22
Where Now, America?

I grew up in suburban San Francisco, on a court with families of different ethnic, religious, and economic backgrounds. Our family was from India. We knew that our court had much diversity. Some on the court were Catholic. Others were of Japanese heritage. Many of…

2016-11-10
History's Jared Hardesty to speak at Village Books tonight 2016-10-26
Leonard writes chapter for book on racial politics in L.A. 2016-06-09
WWU’s Jared Hardesty Publishes ‘Unfreedom: Slavery and Dependence in Eighteenth-Century Boston’ with NYU Press 2016-04-20
Lecture April 21: Are those who remain silent on wrongdoing complicit in it? 2016-04-05
Coming Down From the Clouds: On Academic Writing

On February 11, a team of scientists announced that they had recorded the sound made by two black holes colliding. Despite all the noise in the universe, their sensitive equipment found evidence of ripples in space-time, a core element in Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity. It was an…

2016-03-07
Stewart delivers keynote at Georgia conference 2016-03-03
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