After Charlottesville: Race & Nation in American History & Memory
AFAM 4970 and HIST 4970
Karlos Hill, African and African American Studies
Rachel Shelden, Department of History
Janet Ward, Department of History
"After Charlottesville: Race and Nation in American Memory" is an interdisciplinary exploration of race, nation, and memory from the vantage point of American History, African American Studies, European History, and Holocaust Studies. The course will highlight and interrogate the varying (and oftentimes conflicting) memory traditions of Civil War and Reconstruction periods. Of particular importance will be contextualizing contemporary debates about slavery, the Civil War, and its connections with Confederate monuments, battle flags, as well as other symbols. Through lectures, readings, class discussions, and guest speakers, the course will illustrate the difference between history and memory and the ways in which historical memory has been central to conceptions of nation and citizenship.
Public Lecture Series
African and African American Studies and the Department of History presents a public lecture series in conjunction with the Presidential Dream Course. Presentations are free and open to the public. For information or accommodation to events on the basis of disability, contact the Department of History at 405-325-2002.
Reckoning With Ourselves: Persuasion & Memory of the Civil War
Monday, September 17, 2018
6:00pm
Fred Jones Museum of Art, Fred Jones Auditorium
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Edward Ayers, Ph.D.
Tucker-Boatwright Professor of the Humanities and President Emeritus, University of Richmond
Edward L. Ayers is President Emeritus of the University of Richmond, where he now serves as Tucker-Boatwright Professor of the Humanities. Previously Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia, where he began teaching in 1980, Ayers was named the National Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 2003. Ayers has written and edited 10 books including The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction, which was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In the Presence of Mine Enemies: Civil War in the Heart of America won the Bancroft Prize for distinguished writing in American history and the Beveridge Prize for the best book in English on the history of the Americas since 1492. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama in 2013. Ayers is also a pioneer in digital history, beginning with his award winning project “The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War,” which has attracted millions of users. He serves as co-editor of the Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States with the University of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab and is co-host of Backstory with the American History Guys, a nationally syndicated radio show and podcast.
Blood and Soil! Real Estate and Racism in Modern American History
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
6:00pm
Fred Jones Museum of Art, Fred Jones Auditorium
Nathan Connolly, Ph.D.
Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University
Nathan D.B. Connolly is the Herbert Baxter Adam Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. He writes about racism, capitalism, politics, and the built environment in the twentieth century. His book A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida (University of Chicago Press, 2014) resuscitates older discussions of racism's profitability by treating Jim Crow segregation in Greater Miami as a variation on the colonial and postcolonial practices afflicting tropical populations around the world. The book received, among other awards, the 2014 Kenneth T. Jackson Book Award from the Urban History Association, the 2015 Liberty Legacy Foundation Book Award from the Organization of American Historians, and the 2016 Bennett H. Wall Book Award from the Southern Historical Association.
Fascism, America, and Human Rights
Monday, November 12, 2018
3:00pm - 9:30pm
J.J. Rhyne Room, Zarrow Hall
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This symposium is free and open to the public. Program schedule available here: http://www.ou.edu/humanitiesforum/Events. The OU Humanities Forum is supported by the Office of the Senior Vice President & Provost. Event co-sponsors: College of Law, Gaylord College of Journalism & Mass Communication, Schusterman Center for Judaic & Israel Studies, Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage, Center for the History of Liberty, & Departments of History & Political Science.
'Things To Be Forgotten': African American Families, Storytelling, and Silences after the Civil War
Monday, December 3, 2018
6:00pm
Fred Jones Museum of Art, Eddy Auditorium
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Kendra Field, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy,
Tufts University
Kendra Field is assistant professor of history and director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at Tufts University. Field is the author of Growing Up with the Country: Family, Race, and Nation after the Civil War (Yale University Press, January 2018). The book traces her ancestors' migratory lives between the Civil War and the Great Migration. Field also served as Assistant Editor to David Levering Lewis' W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography (Henry Holt, 2009). Field's research and teaching areas include race, slavery, freedom, migration, and social movements in the long nineteenth century; African-American family history, memory, and public history. Field has been awarded fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Huntington Library, and Harvard University's Charles Warren Center in American History. Field received her Ph.D. in American History from New York University. She also holds a Master's in Public Policy from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and a B.A. from Williams College.
