May 2022

In memoriam: John M. Merriman, French historian, beloved teacher

John M. Merriman, Charles Seymour Professor of History, died on May 22 after a long illness. He was 75.

Merriman was born in Battle Creek, Michigan on June 15, 1946 and raised in Portland, Oregon. After attending an all-boys Jesuit high school, he went to the University of Michigan, where he received his B.A. and Ph.D. Under the mentorship of Charles Tilly, he developed the passion for history and all things French that continued throughout his life.

Glenda Gilmore interviewed by Amanda Joyce Hall on New Books Network podcast

In Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination: An Artist’s Reckoning with the South (UNC Press, 2022), Glenda Gilmore meticulously documents and interprets the artistic life of Romare Bearden. Gilmore details four generations of the Bearden family and grounds the reader in places formative to Bearden like North Carolina, New York, and Pennsylvania.

Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination

Yale historian Paul Kennedy charts Allied “Victory at Sea”

On May 5, 1943, three wolf packs of German U-boats attacked ONS-5, an Allied merchant convoy sailing from British ports to New York City to retrieve stocks of oil, ores, sheet steel, and other vital war supplies.