Kenneth Feinberg (B.A., 1967) Donates Historic Materials to UMass Amherst (Nov. 2011)
In December, Kenneth Feinberg '67, an esteemed attorney known for achieving comprehensive settlements in high-profile liability cases and for victims of large-scale disasters, has donated his papers and related materials to the UMass Amherst Libraries. The Feinberg Collection covers four decades, including his current oversight of compensation to victims of the BP oil spill and tenure as special master for the Sept. 11 Victims Compensation Fund. Feinberg was interviewed about his donation, which you can watch here.
"Sesquicentennial Symposium: Civil War Causes and Consequences" (Oct. 2011)
The UMass History Department was pleased this month to participate in the Five College Learning in Retirement's Civil War Sesquicentennial Symposium. Among others, speakers at this two-day event included Eric Foner, UMass History professors John Higginson and Bruce Laurie, Leonard Richards, emeritus, and Manisha Sinha of the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies.
Public History "The Next 25 Years" Anniversary Conference (Sept. 2011)
Celebrating 25 years of Public History at UMass Amherst, the Department of History was thrilled to welcome some of the nation's most innovative practitioners to help us ponder the field's next quarter-century. Special guests included Nina Simon, Rolf Diamant of the National Park Service, preservationist Chris Wilson, UMass's own James Young, Steve Lubar of the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage, the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center's Graciela Sanchez, Liz Cevcenko from the Guantanamo Public Memory Project, NPS curator Patricia West, and Alice Greenwald, director of the museum being established beneath the World Trade Center Memorial in New York City. A special thanks also to our alumni who presented a series of "Snapshots from the Field."