January 2019

NY Times: "A New History of Native Americans Responds to ‘Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee’" by Ned Blackhawk

Over the past 12 months, Native American politicians, artists and academics have made uncommon gains. Indeed, Native American women helped to make 2018 the Year of the Woman. In November, New Mexican and Kansan voters elected Debra Haaland (Laguna Pueblo) and Sharice Davids (Ho-Chunk) to Congress, while voters in Minnesota elected Peggy Flanagan (Ojibwe) their lieutenant governor.

Workshop: Holly Brewer (UMD) “Suffer’d under his Tiranie”: Colonial Governance, Feudal Law, and the Iberian Influence on Slavery in Early America & the British Empire."

April 1st
Holly Brewer (UMD)
“Suffer’d under his Tiranie”: Colonial Governance, Feudal Law, and the Iberian Influence on Slavery in Early America & the British Empire.”
 
12-1.30pm in Luce Hall 203
 
 

Workshop: Alison Frank Johnson (Harvard) "The Emperor and the Executioner: Capital Punishment in the Habsburg Monarchy"

Friday February 15th
Alison Frank Johnson (Harvard)*
“The Emperor and the Executioner: Capital Punishment in the Habsburg Monarchy”
*Co-Sponsored by The Harvard Lectureship, the Office of the Secretary and President for Student Life, and Yale CHESS

Hosted at Grace Hopper College, Head of College House, 434 College St.