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RECENT FACULTY AWARDS

According to Columbia University history professor Eric Foner, the Reconstruction era began more than a year before the end of the Civil War, when Abraham Lincoln, the country’s first Republican president, “announced a plan to establish governments in the South loyal to the Union.” These governments backed legislation guaranteeing Black Americans’ rights and were vehemently opposed by the counter-revolutionary “Redemption” movement that swept the South.

Feb 22, 2022

Eric Foner is quoted in CNN Politics‘ “America has a long history of resisting multiracial democracy.”

In the newest issue of WMQ, Natasha Lightfoot explores unlikely ways that mid-nineteenth-century enslaved people in the Caribbean learned that their bondage was unlawful through Eliza Moore’s efforts to self-emancipate.

Feb 21, 2022

In the newest issue of William & Mary Quarterly, Natasha Lightfoot explores unlikely ways that mid-nineteenth-century enslaved people in the Caribbean learned that their bondage was unlawful through Eliza Moore’s efforts to self-emancipate: “’So Far to Leeward’: Eliza Moore’s Fugitive Cosmopolitan Routes to Freedom in the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean.

The RSA’s Digital Innovation Award recognizes excellence in digital projects that support the study of the Renaissance. This year two prizes have been awarded, to Early Modern Women and the Poetry of Complaint, 1540-1660, a project directed by Rosalind L. Smith (Department of English, The Australian National University), and to Secrets of Craft and Nature in Renaissance France, a project directed by Pamela H. Smith (Department of History, Columbia University).

Feb 17, 2022

The RSA’s Digital Innovation Award recognizes excellence in digital projects that support the study of the Renaissance. This year one of the two prizes has been awarded to 1540-1660 Secrets of Craft and Nature in Renaissance France, a project directed by Pamela H. Smith.

In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, CUIMC’s Jewish Cultural Employee Resource Group hosted A Conversation with Guy Stern, PhD. Dr. Stern is one of the last surviving members of The Ritchie Boys, a highly decorated World War II special military intelligence unit comprised of primarily Jewish, German, Austrian, and Czech refugees and immigrants to the United States who helped provide a significant amount of key intelligence to the Allied Forces. Dr. Stern shared the story of his remarkable life, as captured in his memoir, “Invisible Ink.”

Feb 17, 2022

In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, CUIMC’s Jewish Cultural Employee Resource Group hosted A Conversation with Dr. Guy Stern, moderated by PhD history alum David Frey.

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