Please join Us at the History Student Reception WED, APR 24 AT 7:00 PM IN DODD LIVING ROOM It’s a great opportunity to meet other History Students and Faculty, learn more about the major . . . and enjoy… Continue reading »
Rethinking Hispaniola’s Wars and Politico-Military Fictions in Mid-Nineteenth Century. A History Department Class of 1960 Scholars Talk by Emmanual Lachaud Ph.D. Assistant Professor of History The City College of New York. TUESDAY, APRIL 23 Griffin 7 – 4:15 pm… Continue reading »
The History Department in collaboration with the Senior and Junior Advisor Groups is thrilled to present: REEL HISTORY! Over three screenings, students are invited to explore history through film. The following films will be shown in Paresky Auditorium at 7:00pm: April 18th: Icelandic film: Woman at War. Discussion to be… Continue reading »
Thursday, April 18 4:15 pm – Griffin 6 A talk by Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Professor of History, American Studies, and Ethnic Studies at Brown University In this lecture, Professor Evely Hu-DeHart explores the importance of Chinese contract laborers for the development of the Spanish Empire in the Pacific… Continue reading »
The Department of History, Global Studies, and Leadership Studies is happy to sponsor a conversation with DC based and award-winning journalist John Walcott ´71 on Friday, April 5th at 4:15 pm in Schapiro 129. The return of rightwing populism in the United States, Latin America, and Europe, the war in… Continue reading »
Williams History Junior and Senior Advisory Group Presents: HISTORY TABLE with Professor Chris Waters Love history? Come join us and consume some history! Bring your lunch! Professor Chris Waters will be there to discuss his career and what history… Continue reading »
On Thursday, October 26, at 4:15 pm in Griffin 3, Professor David Armitage, Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University will be doing a lecture entitled Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro and 18th-Century Diplomatic Culture. This lecture approaches opera, more specifically Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro (1786), from an unusual angle:… Continue reading »
In the early nineteenth century, an irrepressible woman named Tsuneno ran away from her home in the Japanese snow country. After three marriages and three divorces, she was determined to find a new life in the great city of Edo (now Tokyo). But the choice sent her tumbling down… Continue reading »
A talk by MAUREEN C. MILLER Chancellor’s Professor University of California, Berkley THU, SEP 28 – 4:15 PM GRIFFIN HALL – ROOM 3 Sponsored by the Department of History, the Oakley Center, and the Lecture Committee … Continue reading »
Williams faculty and staff, I write, with sadness, to announce the death of Robert F. Dalzell Jr., the Frederick Rudolph ’42 Class of 1965 Professor Emeritus of American Culture. Professor Dalzell passed away late last week after a brief hospitalization. Bob earned his B.A. from Amherst College and his Ph.D. Continue reading »
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