2007/2008

Nowhere to Run: Emancipation During the Civil War

Thursday September 20, 2007 4:30pm

James Oakes, Professor of History, City University of New York Graduate Center

Charles C. Jones and the Secret Transcripts of the Gullah Slaves

Thursday October 4, 2007 4:30pm

Erskine Clark, Professor of American Religious History, Columbia Theological Seminary

The Prophet of Zongo Street: Reading by the Author

Monday October 29, 2007 6:00pm

Mohammed Naseehu Ali, Author

A Slave No More: Reading and Discussion with the Author

Monday November 12, 2007 4:30pm

David W. Blight, Yale University

Ending Slavery: A Book Talk and Discussion with Kevin Bales

Friday November 16, 2007 5:00pm

Kevin Bales

Writing Freedom: An African Mother and her Children in the Era of the Haitian Revolution

Thursday December 13, 2007 4:30pm

Rebecca J. Scott, the Charles Gibson Distinguished Professor of History and Professor of Law at University of Michigan

Becoming Free in the Cotton South: A Book Talk and Discussion with the Author

Thursday January 31, 2008 4:30pm

Susan O’Donovan, Associate Professor of History, Harvard University

The Slave Ship: A Human History: A Book Talk and Discussion with the Author

Thursday February 14, 2008 4:30pm

Marcus Rediker, University of Pittsburg

The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade

Tuesday February 26, 2008 5:30pm

Christopher Miller, Yale University

Doing Public History in the Real World: A Panel Discussion

Wednesday February 27, 2008 4:30pm

Peter Almond, Film Writer and Producer, Beacon Pictures; Alice Greenwald, Executive Vice President and Director, National September 11th Memorial and Museum; and Katherine Kane, Executive Director, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Moving Midway: Film Screening and Discussion with the Director

Wednesday April 9, 2008 6:45pm

Godfrey Cheshirim, Award-winning Southern Film Critic

The Lost Worlds of Venture Smith

April 21, 2008 4:30pm

John Wood Sweet, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill