Five College History Seminar: "What Difference Did Color Make?"
The Five-College History Seminar meets once a month during the semester to discuss the work-in-progress of Valley historians.
April 2005 Meeting:
Lowell Gudmundson, Mt. Holyoke, "What Difference Did Color Make?: Blacks in the 'White Towns' of Western Nicaragua in the 1880s."
Social hour at 5:30 p.m.
Dinner at 6:00 p.m.
Precirculated paper at 7:00 p.m.
The paper will be available online at www.umass.edu/history/5chs/seminar.html
Participants who do not wish to have dinner are welcome to arrive at 7 p.m. for the discussion!
Dinner must be ordered no later than noon on the Monday preceding the Seminar; it costs $16.95 ($8.50 for graduate students). To order, contact Alice Izer in the UMass history department (545-2378 or aizer@history.umass.edu)
The seminar is supported by a generous grant from Five Colleges, Inc.