Boston Area Events

Sir Hilary Beckles, Professor of History and Vice Chancellor, University of the West Indies Title: Reparatory Justin for Global Black Enslavement: The Greatest Political Movement of The 21 st Century Introduction and Comments: Sven Beckert- Harvard...

Nicolas Barreyre (Associate Professor in American History EHESS): “Our national debt may be a national blessing!': How the Civil War Changed American views on the public debt”

Lukas Rieppel, Assistant Professor of History, Brown University: “Capitalism and Dinosaur Paleontology”

A “fine looking body of women”: Woman Suffragists Develop Their Visual Campaign Allison Lange, Wentworth Institute Comment: Susan Ware, Schlesinger Library and American National Biography Suffragists coordinated a visual campaign to promote their cause...

Faces, Beauty, and Brains: Physiognomy and Female Education in Post-Revolutionary America Rachel Walker, University of Maryland Comment: Robert A. Gross, University of Connecticut This project explores how early republican Americans used physiognomy—the...

“A barbarous practice that would not be permitted in other civilized countries”: The Evolution and Enduring Presence of the African Dodger Game at Boston-Area Amusement Venues Mark Herlihy, Endicott College Comment: Jeff Melnick, University of...

We are pleased to announce that Megan Black (Harvard) will be our guest presenter during the next APHI seminar on Wednesday, November 18 at Noon in the History Department (226 Bay State Rd), room 504. The subject of the talk will be “A Far-Flung Interior...

In this Colloquium, Postdoctoral Fellow Onur Ozgode (Ph.D. in Sociology, Columbia University) will be presenting his paper, “The Emergence of Systemic Risk”. To explain how the Federal Reserve came to govern the financial system against the most...

James Q. Whitman, Ford Foundation Professor Of Comparative And Foreign Law, Yale Law School http://hls.harvard.edu/dept/oaa/workshops/law-and-history-workshop/

Mary Ziegler, Stearns Weaver Miller Professor Of Law, Florida State University College Of Law http://hls.harvard.edu/dept/oaa/workshops/law-and-history-workshop/