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Graduate Student Nolan Cool delivers talk at Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site for New York State History Month
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
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...
Professor Emeritus Bruce Laurie Profiled in a Boston Globe Article on a photograph that went viral—in 1863.
Sunday, November 20, 2016
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 John Higginson and Joye Bowman Deliver a Paper at Prestigious Conference
Saturday, November 19, 2016
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...
New Essay from Professor Emeritus Jane Rausch
Saturday, November 12, 2016
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),...