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… On Juneteenth provides a historian’s view of the country’s long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas … hardships that African-Americans have endured in the century since, from Reconstruction through Jim Crow and …

… about the history of Black people in Britain in the 18th century. In addition to the lives of “celebrities” like … turn corresponds to Ian Baucom’s idea of the “inordinately long” twentieth century, as both a collapsing and also a …

… Ruined by the Autumn Wind,” a work by the prominent 8th century Chinese poet Du Fu. The students are part of a new … first-year students to “exceptional” books that have had long cultural lives. On this day — the fourth time the class … to introduce students to “exceptional” books that have had long cultural lives. The students are encouraged to consider …

… for Vietnamese relations with the United States in the twentieth century. Having abandoned Vietnam in the nineteenth century, … the United States had a responsibility to it in the twentieth.     In order to legitimate a particular ideal, …

… Qajar period and Iranian cultural memory’, in Iran in the Twentieth Century: Historiography and Political Culture, ed. by Touraj … Qajar period and Iranian cultural memory’, in Iran in the Twentieth Century: Historiography and Political Culture, ed. …

… Learners (2015) Through the poetry of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian authors, including Pushkin and Akhmatova,  …

… a day of presentations and network-building at Yale. The event was the culmination of a successful year of activities … specimens in natural histories produced in nineteenth century Cuba, smallpox vaccination and portrayals of licensed … century Cuba, and the history of primatology in early twentieth century Cuba. Panel four, “The Politics of Race and …

… has research interests in the literature of the eighteenth-century, the philosophy of the Enlightenment, the French … in The Libertine’s Progress: Seduction in the Eighteenth-Century Novel (1994). Another book, The Laws of Hostility: … 2005). He has also published on the literature of the twentieth and twenty-first century on authors such as …