Department of History

(Co-sponsored by the Georgetown College Americas Initiative. Chairs: Chandra Manning—cmm97@georgetown.edu and Adam Rothman—ar44@georgetown.edu)

Mondays (unless otherwise specified), seminar at the Mortara Center 3600 N St. NW from 4:30-6:00 followed by reception 6:00-7:00 (wine, cheese, snacks provided)

Preliminary Schedule Listing, 2009-2010 (please check back at this webpage for updated information)

October 5 : Steven Hahn, "The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom" (University of Pennsylvania)

Nov. 16:  Amy Murrell Taylor, "'A  Rising Tide of Slaves': The Social History of Contraband Camps" (University at Albany)

February 22 : Leslie A Schwalm, "Surviving Wartime Emancipation: African Americans and the Cost of Civil War"  (University of Iowa)

March 22: Elizabeth Varon, "'See What Freedom Meant': Lee's Surrender in Black Politics and Memory, 1865-1915." (Temple University)

April 12 : Hannah Rosen, "Separate Suffering:  African Americans and the Segregation of Death in the Nineteenth-Century U.S." (University of Michigan)