History Workshop

The 2019-2020 academic year represents the 44th year in which the Workshop serves as a regular part of the History Department life. The History Workshop meets in 203 Munroe Hall at 12:15 pm on Tuesdays. Presentations begin at 12:30 pm and are followed by discussion ending at 1:30 pm. Bring a lunch. All are welcome! For further information, please call (302) 831-2371.

We reget to inform you that our Spring 2020 History Workshop is cancelled due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) impact on the University of Delaware community. We will see you next year at the 45th annual History Workshop.

Spring Semester 2020

March 10	Anne Boylan, University of DelawareDelaware’s African American Suffragists in the Struggle for the Vote
March 17	NO WORKSHOP
March 24	Elizabeth Heath, Baruch College, Weissman School of Arts & SciencesDressed in Gingham and Flowered Handkerchiefs, or Writing a Global History of French Caribbean Slave Clothing Cancelled
March 31	NO WORKSHOP, Spring Break
April 7	Stephanie Lampkin, Delaware Historical SocietyAfrican Americana, Public History, and Museums: A DiscussionCancelled
April 14	Tom Guiler, Winterthur Program in American Material CultureDoing DH While Doing Your Dissertation Cancelled
April 21	Carol Summers, University of RichmondWomen, War Savings, and Citizenship in the British World 1939-50 Cancelled
April 28	Marisa Chappell, Oregon State UniversityACORN: Working-Class Politics in America’s Second Gilded Age Cancelled

Fall Semester 2019

Sept. 3	Dael Norwood, University of Delaware Troubled Waters: The Destabilizing Influence of Asian Trade in the Era of Good Feelings
Sept. 10	Alex Galarza, University of Delaware The Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo Digital Archive: Public History and Guatemala's Disappeared
Sept. 17	History Faculty, University of Delaware Grad Workshop on Research, Teaching, and Job Search
Sept. 24	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	Mari Crabtree, College of Charleston, SC The Ethics of Memorializing Anti-Black Spectacle Violence
Oct. 22	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	Erica Lome, University of Delaware Craftsmen in the Bluegrass: "Discovering" African American Cabinetmakers in the Colonial Revival, 1900-1950

Spring Semester 2019

Feb. 19	Jaipreet Virdi, University of Delaware Title: Objects of Disability
Feb. 26	Geoff Bil, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, New York Botanical Garden Title: Fields of Empire: Science and Ethnoscience in Twentieth-Century Southeast Asia
March 12	NO WORKSHOP
March 19	N.D.B. Connolly, John Hopkins University Title: "Little Loyal Dependency:"The Continuities of Colonialism in Capital's Atlantic World
March 26	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	Jacqueline Antonovich, Muhlenberg College Title: “The Age of the Knife and Pistol”: Women Physicians and Reproductive Surveillance in the American West
April 16	Elizabeth Higginbotham, University of Delaware Title: Understanding My Father's Work: Ingredients for a Legacy of Social Justice
April 23	NO WORKSHOP
April 30	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	Marcia Chatelain, Georgetown University Title: But You Don't Have an Archive

Fall Semester 2018

Sept. 11	Sharon Block, University of California, Irvine Title: “Radical Pedagogies in the History Classroom and Beyond”
Sept. 18	Zara Anishanslin, University of Delaware Title: Making History Material/Making Material History: A Dialogue about Craft, Discipline, and Career
Oct. 2	Theresa McCulla, National Museum of American History Title: “A Historian Walks Into a Bar: Building a Brewing History Collection at the Smithsonian”
Oct. 9	James Grossman, Exec. Director American Historical Association Title: “Career Diversity for Historians”
Oct. 23	Margaret Powell, Curatorial Assist. of Decorative Arts & Design, Carnegie Museum of Art Title: “Public History, Museums, Local History”
Nov. 13	Justene Hill Edwards, University of Virginia Title: The Slaves' Economy in Capitalist Perspective
Nov. 27	Rachael Beyer, University of Delaware Title: “When I Was Your Age: Using Oral Histories to Learn About Childhoods and Youth”

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