March 2019

Bosworth Memorial Lecture: Peter Mancall, USC

The Frank K. Bosworth, Jr. ‘45 Memorial Lecture in American History

“Before Jamestown”

Peter Cooper Mancall

Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities

Linda and Harlan Martens Director of the Early Modern Studies Institute

Professor of History and Anthropology

University of Southern California

March 28, 2019

5:00PM

William L. Harkness Hall, WLH, Room 208

100 Wall Street

NY Times: David Blight one of two scholars awarded Bancroft Prize

A mammoth biography of Frederick Douglass and a new study of the 17th-century colonial American conflict known as King Philip’s War have won this year’s Bancroft Prize, which is considered one of the most prestigious honors in the field of American history.