CONNECT
Department of History FacebookDepartment of History Twitter

History Workshop

Image Picker for Section 0
Move Down

Move this whole section down, swapping places with the section below it.

Code Cleaner

Check for and fix problems in the body text. Text pasted in from other sources may contain malformed HTML which the code cleaner will remove.

Accordion is OFF

Accordion feature turned off, click to turn on.

Accordion is ON

Accordion featurd turned on, click to turn off.

Image Rendition

Change the way the image is cropped for this page layout.

Media Size

Cycle through size options for this image or video.

Original
50%
66%
100%
Fixed Portrait 1
Fixed Portrait 2
Cancel
Media Right/Left-Align

Align the media panel to the right/left in this section.

Insert Image

Open the image pane in this body section. Click in the image pane to select an image from the image library.

Insert Video

Open the video pane in this body section. Click in the video pane to embed a video. Click ? for step-by-step instructions.

Remove Image

Remove the image from the media panel. This does not delete the image from the library.

Remove Video

Remove the video from the media panel.

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​



The 2023-2024 academic year represents the 48th year in which the Workshop serves as a regular part of the History Department life.

All presentations will be held in-person in 203 Munroe Hall from 12:45 p.m. to 2​​ p.m. unless otherwise noted.

All are welcome​!

​​Past Workshops


Move Up

Move this whole section up, swapping places with the section above it.

Move Down

Move this whole section down, swapping places with the section below it.

Code Cleaner

Check for and fix problems in the body text. Text pasted in from other sources may contain malformed HTML which the code cleaner will remove.

Accordion is OFF

Accordion feature turned off, click to turn on.

Accordion is ON

Accordion featurd turned on, click to turn off.

Image Rendition

Change the way the image is cropped for this page layout.

Media Size

Cycle through size options for this image or video.

Original
50%
66%
100%
Fixed Portrait 1
Fixed Portrait 2
Cancel
Media Right/Left-Align

Align the media panel to the right/left in this section.

Insert Image

Open the image pane in this body section. Click in the image pane to select an image from the image library.

Insert Video

Open the video pane in this body section. Click in the video pane to embed a video. Click ? for step-by-step instructions.

Remove Image

Remove the image from the media panel. This does not delete the image from the library.

Remove Video

Remove the video from the media panel.

Move Up

Move this whole section up, swapping places with the section above it.

Move Down

Move this whole section down, swapping places with the section below it.

Code Cleaner

Check for and fix problems in the body text. Text pasted in from other sources may contain malformed HTML which the code cleaner will remove.

Accordion is OFF

Accordion feature turned off, click to turn on.

Accordion is ON

Accordion featurd turned on, click to turn off.

Image Rendition

Change the way the image is cropped for this page layout.

Media Size

Cycle through size options for this image or video.

Original
50%
66%
100%
Fixed Portrait 1
Fixed Portrait 2
Cancel
Media Right/Left-Align

Align the media panel to the right/left in this section.

Insert Image

Open the image pane in this body section. Click in the image pane to select an image from the image library.

Insert Video

Open the video pane in this body section. Click in the video pane to embed a video. Click ? for step-by-step instructions.

Remove Image

Remove the image from the media panel. This does not delete the image from the library.

Remove Video

Remove the video from the media panel.

History Workshops prior to fall 2022

​Spring Semester 2022​

Feb. 15, 2022 Cindy Ott, University of Delaware Biscuits and Buffalo, the Ongoing Reinvention of American Indian Culture

Feb. 22, 2022: Beth Lew-Williams, Princeton University Speaks-Warnock Lecture John Doe Chinaman: Race and Law in the American West

Mar. 1 Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University Speaks-Warnock Lecture What Can Objects Tell Us About The Atlantic Slave Trade?

Mar. 15 Alaina Roberts, University of Pittsburg Speaks-Warnock Lecture Black Freedom on Native Land

Apr. 5, 2022: Marisa Fuentes, University of Rutgers Speaks-Warnock Lecture Rethinking Social Death: 'Refuse Slaves,' Disposibility, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

May 3, 2022: Katheryn Lawson, University of Delaware Pets of Respectability: Black Philadelphians and their Animal Companions, 1950-1990

Fall Semester 2021

Sept. 14, 2021: Christine Heyrman, University of Delaware The Crisis in American Christendom and the Coming of the Civil War

Sept. 21, 2021: Mia Bay, University of PennsylvaniaSpeaks-Warnock Lecture Traveling Black: Exploring a History of Race and Resistance

Oct. 5, 2021: Sasha Turner, Johns Hopkins UniversitySpeaks-Warnock Lecture Enslaved Mothers and the Work of Emotions

Oct. 19, 2021: Vimalin Rujivacharakul, University of Delaware Guldarra: The Buddha and the Unknown in Afghanistan

Nov. 2, 2021: Ryan Bac , University of Delaware Building Indians, Imaging Empire: Wax Figures, Race, and Colonialism in the Early American Republic

Spring Semester 2021​

Feb. 23, 2021: Sonia Robles, University o f Delaware Constructing a Revolutionary Platform: Early Public Radio and the Emergence of Modern Mexico

March 9, 2021: Kathryn Benjamin Golden, University of Delaware Remembering and Forgetting the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp: Public History and Memory in the Tidewater

March 23, 2021: R ebecca Davis, University of Delaware and Heather White, University of Puget Sound Locating Heterosexuality in the History of Sexuality

April 6, 2021: Zara Anishanslin & Jaipreet Virdi, University of Delaware Let's Get Digital

April 20, 2021: l, University of Delaware Guldarra: The Buddha and the Unknown in Afghanist

an

History Workshop Recordings, Spring 2021

Fall Semester 2020

Sept. 8, 2020: Owen White, University of Delaware The Vinelords: Wine and Capitalism in Colonial Algeria

Sept. 22, 2020: Richard Bell, University of Maryland Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and their Astonishing Odyssey Home

Oct. 6, 2020: Elizabeth Heath, Baruch College, Weissman School of Arts & Sciences Dressed in Gingham and Flowered Handkerchiefs, or Writing a Global History of French Caribbean Slave Clothing

Oct. 13, 2020: Drew Brown, University of Delaware Baller Culture: The Expression and Resistance of Black Sporting Culture from 1988-2008

Oct. 20, 2020: Kenneth Cohen, University of Delaware The Future of Museum Studies at UD

History Workshop Recordings, FAll 2020

Spring Semester 2020

March 10, 2020: Anne Boylan, University of Delaware Delaware's African American Suffragists in the Struggle for the Vote

March 17, 2020: NO WORKSHOP March 24, 2020: Elizabeth Heath, Baruch College, Weissman School of Arts & Sciences Dressed in Gingham and Flowered Handkerchiefs, or Writing a Global History of French Caribbean Slave Clothing Cancelled

March 31, 2020: NO WORKSHOP, Spring BreakApril 7, 2020: Stephanie Lampkin, Delaware Historical Society African Americana, Public History, and Museums: A Discussion Cancelled

April 14, 2020: Tom Guiler, Winterthur Program in American Material Culture Doing DH While Doing Your Dissertation Cancelled

April 21, 2020: Carol Summers, University of Richmond Women, War Savings, and Citizenship in the British World 1939-50 Live via Zoom!

April 28, 2020: Marisa Chappell, Oregon State University ACORN: Working-Class Politics in America's Second Gilded Age Live via Zoom!

Fall Semester 2019​​

Sept. 3, 2019: Dael Norwood, University of Delaware Troubled Waters: The Destabilizing Influence of Asian Trade in the Era of Good Feelings

Sept. 10 , 2019: Alex Galarza, University of Delaware The Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo Digital Archive: Public History and Guatemala's Disappeared

Sept. 17, 2019: History Faculty, University of Delaware Grad Workshop on Research, Teaching, and Job Searc

h

Kristin O'Brassill-Kulfan, Rutgers University(Public) Historians and the Archive Oct. 1 Victoria Wolcott, University at Buffalo Religio-Racial Identity and the Politics of Father Divine Oct. 8 No Workshop

Oct. 15, 2019: Mari Crabtree, College of Charleston, SC The Ethics of Memorializing Anti-Black Spectacle Violence

Oct. 22, 2019: Ida Jones, Morgan State University Much Collecting, Interpreting, and Disseminating Data of Interest to Black Women: The Reach of Mrs. Bethune's NCNW

Oct. 29, 2019: Erica Lome, University of Delaware Craftsmen in the Bluegrass: "Discovering" African American Cabinetmakers in the Colonial Revival, 1900-1950

Spring Semester 2019​

Feb. 19, 2019: Jaipreet Virdi, University of Delaware, Title: Objects of Disability

Feb. 26, 2019: Geoff Bil, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, New York Botanical Garden, Title: Fields of Empire: Science and Ethnoscience in Twentieth-Century Southeast Asia

March 12, 2019: NO WORKSHOP

March 19 , 2019: N.D.B. Connolly, John Hopkins University, Title: "Little Loyal Dependency:"The Continuities of Colonialism in Capital's Atlantic World

March 26, 2019: Robyn Spencer, Lehman College, City University of New York, Title: From Mississippi to the Mekong: The Student Non-Violent Committee and the Movement Against the US War in Vietnam

April 9, 2019: Jacqueline Antonovich, Muhlenberg College, Title: “The Age of the Knife and Pistol": Women Physicians and Reproductive Surveillance in the American West

April 16, 2019: Elizabeth Higginbotham, University of Delaware, Title: Understanding My Father's Work: Ingredients for a Legacy of Social Justice

April 23, 2019: NO WORKSHOP

April 30, 2019: Carrie Glenn, University of Delaware, Title: The 1802 Fire at Cap-Français and Women's Market Participation on the Eve of Haitian Independence

May 7, 2019: Marcia Chatelain, Georgetown University, Title: But You Don't Have an Archive

Fall Semester 2018

Sept. 11, 2018: Sharon Block, University of California, Irvine, Title: “Radical Pedagogies in the History Classroom and Beyond"

Sept. 18, 2018: Zara Anishanslin, University of Delaware, Title: Making History Material/Making Material History: A Dialogue about Craft, Discipline, and Career

Oct. 2, 2018: Theresa McCulla, National Museum of American History, Title: “A Historian Walks Into a Bar: Building a Brewing History Collection at the Smithsonian"

Oct. 9, 2018: James Grossman, Exec. Director American Historical Association, Title: “Career Diversity for Historians"

Oct. 23, 2018: Margaret Powell, Curatorial Assist. of Decorative Arts & Design, Carnegie Museum of Art, Title: “Public History, Museums, Local History"

Nov. 13, 2018: Justene Hill Edwards, University of Virginia. Title: The Slaves' Economy in Capitalist Perspective

Nov. 27, 2018: Rachael Beyer, University of Delaware, Title: “When I Was Your Age: Using Oral Histories to Learn About Childhoods and Youth"​

Move Up

Move this whole section up, swapping places with the section above it.

Move Down

Move this whole section down, swapping places with the section below it.

Code Cleaner

Check for and fix problems in the body text. Text pasted in from other sources may contain malformed HTML which the code cleaner will remove.

Accordion is OFF

Accordion feature turned off, click to turn on.

Accordion is ON

Accordion featurd turned on, click to turn off.

Image Rendition

Change the way the image is cropped for this page layout.

Media Size

Cycle through size options for this image or video.

Original
50%
66%
100%
Fixed Portrait 1
Fixed Portrait 2
Cancel
Media Right/Left-Align

Align the media panel to the right/left in this section.

Insert Image

Open the image pane in this body section. Click in the image pane to select an image from the image library.

Insert Video

Open the video pane in this body section. Click in the video pane to embed a video. Click ? for step-by-step instructions.

Remove Image

Remove the image from the media panel. This does not delete the image from the library.

Remove Video

Remove the video from the media panel.

Move Up

Move this whole section up, swapping places with the section above it.

Move Down

Move this whole section down, swapping places with the section below it.

Code Cleaner

Check for and fix problems in the body text. Text pasted in from other sources may contain malformed HTML which the code cleaner will remove.

Accordion is OFF

Accordion feature turned off, click to turn on.

Accordion is ON

Accordion featurd turned on, click to turn off.

Image Rendition

Change the way the image is cropped for this page layout.

Media Size

Cycle through size options for this image or video.

Original
50%
66%
100%
Fixed Portrait 1
Fixed Portrait 2
Cancel
Media Right/Left-Align

Align the media panel to the right/left in this section.

Insert Image

Open the image pane in this body section. Click in the image pane to select an image from the image library.

Insert Video

Open the video pane in this body section. Click in the video pane to embed a video. Click ? for step-by-step instructions.

Remove Image

Remove the image from the media panel. This does not delete the image from the library.

Remove Video

Remove the video from the media panel.


Move Up

Move this whole section up, swapping places with the section above it.

Move Down

Move this whole section down, swapping places with the section below it.

Code Cleaner

Check for and fix problems in the body text. Text pasted in from other sources may contain malformed HTML which the code cleaner will remove.

Accordion is OFF

Accordion feature turned off, click to turn on.

Accordion is ON

Accordion featurd turned on, click to turn off.

Image Rendition

Change the way the image is cropped for this page layout.

Media Size

Cycle through size options for this image or video.

Original
50%
66%
100%
Fixed Portrait 1
Fixed Portrait 2
Cancel
Media Right/Left-Align

Align the media panel to the right/left in this section.

Insert Image

Open the image pane in this body section. Click in the image pane to select an image from the image library.

Insert Video

Open the video pane in this body section. Click in the video pane to embed a video. Click ? for step-by-step instructions.

Remove Image

Remove the image from the media panel. This does not delete the image from the library.

Remove Video

Remove the video from the media panel.

Move Up

Move this whole section up, swapping places with the section above it.

Move Down

Move this whole section down, swapping places with the section below it.

Code Cleaner

Check for and fix problems in the body text. Text pasted in from other sources may contain malformed HTML which the code cleaner will remove.

Accordion is OFF

Accordion feature turned off, click to turn on.

Accordion is ON

Accordion featurd turned on, click to turn off.

Image Rendition

Change the way the image is cropped for this page layout.

Media Size

Cycle through size options for this image or video.

Original
50%
66%
100%
Fixed Portrait 1
Fixed Portrait 2
Cancel
Media Right/Left-Align

Align the media panel to the right/left in this section.

Insert Image

Open the image pane in this body section. Click in the image pane to select an image from the image library.

Insert Video

Open the video pane in this body section. Click in the video pane to embed a video. Click ? for step-by-step instructions.

Remove Image

Remove the image from the media panel. This does not delete the image from the library.

Remove Video

Remove the video from the media panel.

Move Up

Move this whole section up, swapping places with the section above it.

Move Down

Move this whole section down, swapping places with the section below it.

Code Cleaner

Check for and fix problems in the body text. Text pasted in from other sources may contain malformed HTML which the code cleaner will remove.

Accordion is OFF

Accordion feature turned off, click to turn on.

Accordion is ON

Accordion featurd turned on, click to turn off.

Image Rendition

Change the way the image is cropped for this page layout.

Media Size

Cycle through size options for this image or video.

Original
50%
66%
100%
Fixed Portrait 1
Fixed Portrait 2
Cancel
Media Right/Left-Align

Align the media panel to the right/left in this section.

Insert Image

Open the image pane in this body section. Click in the image pane to select an image from the image library.

Insert Video

Open the video pane in this body section. Click in the video pane to embed a video. Click ? for step-by-step instructions.

Remove Image

Remove the image from the media panel. This does not delete the image from the library.

Remove Video

Remove the video from the media panel.

Move Up

Move this whole section up, swapping places with the section above it.

Move Down

Move this whole section down, swapping places with the section below it.

Code Cleaner

Check for and fix problems in the body text. Text pasted in from other sources may contain malformed HTML which the code cleaner will remove.

Accordion is OFF

Accordion feature turned off, click to turn on.

Accordion is ON

Accordion featurd turned on, click to turn off.

Media Right/Left-Align

Align the media panel to the right/left in this section.


Move Up

Move this whole section up, swapping places with the section above it.

Move Down

Move this whole section down, swapping places with the section below it.

Code Cleaner

Check for and fix problems in the body text. Text pasted in from other sources may contain malformed HTML which the code cleaner will remove.

Accordion is OFF

Accordion feature turned off, click to turn on.

Accordion is ON

Accordion featurd turned on, click to turn off.

Media Right/Left-Align

Align the media panel to the right/left in this section.

Move Up

Move this whole section up, swapping places with the section above it.

Move Down

Move this whole section down, swapping places with the section below it.

Code Cleaner

Check for and fix problems in the body text. Text pasted in from other sources may contain malformed HTML which the code cleaner will remove.

Accordion is OFF

Accordion feature turned off, click to turn on.

Accordion is ON

Accordion featurd turned on, click to turn off.

Media Right/Left-Align

Align the media panel to the right/left in this section.

Move Up

Move this whole section up, swapping places with the section above it.

Code Cleaner

Check for and fix problems in the body text. Text pasted in from other sources may contain malformed HTML which the code cleaner will remove.

Accordion is OFF

Accordion feature turned off, click to turn on.

Accordion is ON

Accordion featurd turned on, click to turn off.

Media Right/Left-Align

Align the media panel to the right/left in this section.

Page Settings and MetaData:
(Not Shown on the Page)
Page Settings
History Workshop
No
MetaData for Search Engine Optimization
History Workshop