You are cordially invited to attend the Department of History’s S.T. Lee Lecture for AY18-19 titled, “Consumer Capitalism, Racialization, and ‘Black is Beautiful’” with Professor Lynn M. Thomas. Lynn M. Thomas is a Professor of History at the University of Washington, Seattle where she is also an adjunct faculty member in Anthropology and Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies. Thomas is the author of Politics of the Womb: Women, Reproduction, and the State in Kenya (2003), co-editor of The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization (2008) and Love in Africa (2009), and a former co-editor of the Journal of African History (2010-15). Her book Beneath the Surface: A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners is forthcoming with Duke University Press. 

A reception with light refreshments will follow the lecture and ensuing Q&A, and we very much hope that you will join us!

For the flyer, click S.T.LeeLecture – LynnThomas3.13.19. 
For the topic sheet, click LynnThomasSTLeeTopicsheet3.13.19. 

A critical discussion of the global impacts of the Treaty of Versailles. Scholars and authors examine the centennial of the peace agreement that ended the First World War, tracing its impact on democracy and tyranny, international governance, and the shaping of the modern world.

Ted Widmer, CUNY Macaulay Honors College.

Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University
Erez Manela, Harvard University
Patricia O’Toole, author of The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made

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This event is co-sponsored by the History Department and the Herbert H. Lehman Center for American History

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For centuries, people from all over the world have made their way to the United States in search of a better life for themselves and their families. How has migration in turn shaped American life and culture? Discover how immigration has transformed the country and why it has become one of the most divisive issues in American politics.

Mae Ngai is an immigration historian and professor of history at Columbia University. She is the author of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America and writes on immigration matters in the New York Times, Washington Post, and other publications. Denny Chin (moderator) is United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit.

Presented as a part of Migrations: The Making of America, a citywide festival hosted by Carnegie Hall

LOCATION

The Robert H. Smith Auditorium at the New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024

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https://www.bookculture.com/event/112th-david-greenberg-alan-brinkley

Join us at Book Culture on 112th on Monday, April 8th at 7pm as we welcome David Greenberg to discuss his new book Alan Brinkley: A Life in History. Nicholas Lemann will be joining David in the discussion.

Few American historians of his generation have had as much influence in both the academic and popular realms as Alan Brinkley. His debut work, the National Book Award–winning Voices of Protest, launched a storied career that considered the full spectrum of American political life. His books give serious and original treatments of populist dissent, the role of mass media, the struggles of liberalism and conservatism, and the powers and limits of the presidency. A longtime professor at Harvard University and Columbia University, Brinkley has shaped the field of U.S. history for generations of students through his textbooks and his mentorship of some of today’s foremost historians.

Alan Brinkley: A Life in History brings together essays on his major works and ideas, as well as personal reminiscences from leading historians and thinkers beyond the academy whom Brinkley collaborated with, befriended, and influenced. Among the luminaries in this volume are the critic Frank Rich, the journalists Jonathan Alter and Nicholas Lemann, the biographer A. Scott Berg, and the historians Eric Foner and Lizabeth Cohen. Together, the seventeen essays that form this book chronicle the life and thought of a working historian, the development of historical scholarship in our time, and the role that history plays in our public life. At a moment when Americans are pondering the plight of their democracy, this volume offers a timely overview of a consummate student—and teacher—of the American political tradition.

David Greenberg, a historian of American politics, teaches at Rutgers University. His latest book is Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency (2016). He is a regular contributor to Politico Magazine and was formerly managing editor and acting editor at the New Republic. He is co-editor, along with Moshik Temkin and Mason B. Williams, of Alan Brinkley: A Life in History.

Nicholas Lemann is Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Journalism and Dean Emeritus at Columbia Journalism School.  He has published five books, most recently Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War, and regularly contributes to the New Yorker as a staff writer.