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In November, public history graduate student (MA) Nolan Cool delivered a talk on Upstate New York’s eighteenth century fur trade at Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site. He also published a...

University of Massachusetts Amherst Professor Emeritus Bruce Laurie was profiled in a recent Boston Globe article titled “This Viral Photo Changed America – in 1863.” The photo depicted the heavily...

Professors of History John Higginson and Joye Bowman delivered a paper at the Black Portraitures III conference in Johannesburg, South Africa. The conference met from 15 to 19 November 2016. Their...

Professor Emeritus Jane Rausch published “Modernization: The Changing Perceptions of Animals in Bogota, Colombia, 1960 to the Present" was published in THE LATIN AMERICANIST 60:3 (September, 2016),...