The United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union would seem to mark an abrupt and unexpected break with post-WWII efforts to bring about greater European integration. Yet like most sudden historical breaks, a look beneath the surface reveals longer-term processes. This panel will discuss how Brexit can be understood from several angles: a) long-term developments […]
IHS Panel: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919: 100 Years Later
The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 was one of the deadliest natural disasters in history, causing the death of 50 to 100 million people worldwide. This panel will be a wide-ranging discussion of the 1918-1919 outbreak and subsequent episodes from a historical, sociological, and medical perspective. Featuring: “Improved Approaches to Combat a Future Pandemic”Robert KrugProfessor Emeritus, […]
Eddie Anderson, the Black Film Star Created by Radio
By Kathryn Fuller-Seeley In December 1939 Academy Award nominated, African American actress Hattie McDaniel was barred from attending the premiere of Gone with the Wind in Atlanta, Georgia because of her race Just four months later, a quite different scenario played out in New York City. In April 1940, the first elaborate premiere of a Hollywood […]
Tatlin’s Fish: Art and Revolution in Everyday Life
Stokely Carmichael: A Life
Great Books on Women’s History: Europe
Notes from the field: Retracing Sixteenth-Century Steps in Seville
From Virile Woman to Woman Christ: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature, by Barbara Newman (1995)
What do virility, erotic passion, and the child abandonment have to do with the history of Christianity? In her collection of essays entitled From Virile Woman to WomanChrist: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature, Barbara Newman addresses these subjects in relation to a shift in gender ideologies in the medieval Church between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries.
A Hidden Jewish “Archive” in the Azores
Digital History: A Primer (Part 1)
Internet technology is starting to have a profound influence on the ways we do history. Historians have found new places to write history, new ways to make sources available, and some historians have mastered the digital technology to create new kinds of data and new kinds of sources for asking new kinds of questions about the past.