Congratulations to Professor Martha Jones whose 2007 book, “All Bound Up Together: The Women Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900” made ZORA Magazine’s comprehensive list of 100 greatest books […]
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AADHum Welcomes Third Cohort of Black Digital Humanities Scholars
The African American History, Culture and Digital Humanities (AADHum) initiative at the University of Maryland is proud to announce the 2019–2020 cohort of AADHum scholars. Started in 2017, this community […]
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Take Two – Local Immigration Detention Centers, Black Women’s Suffrage History And How The Dodgers Came to LA
Professor Martha Jones was recently featured on 89.3 KPCC’s Take Two® Local Immigration Detention Centers, Black Women’s Suffrage History And How The Dodgers Came to LA where she discussed the […]
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December 5 & 6: “The Maker’s Space: Person, Place, and Production in Early Modern China”
“The Maker’s Space: Person, Place, and Production in Early Modern China” Thursday, December 5th (Shriver Board Room) 2:00-2:15pm — Introduction and Welcome Tobie Meyer-Fong, Johns Hopkins University 2:30-3:30pm — Opening […]
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What is Beijing Planning for Hong Kong?
Professor Tobie Meyer-Fong’s book, What Remains: Coming to Terms with Civil War in 19th Century China, featured in the ‘What We’re Reading’ section, of the Foreign Policy article, “What is Beijing Planning […]
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10/28: Lunchtime Talk: Developing Your Public Scholarship
Please join Henry Farrell, Jessica Marie Johnson, and the SNF Agora Institute on Monday, October 28, for an informal lunchtime discussion on public scholarship in the academy. Our panelists will offer […]
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Professor Jones wins the 2019 AHA Littleton-Griswold Prize
Congratulations to Professor Martha S. Jones on winning the 2019 American Historical Association’s Littleton-Griswold Prize in U.S. law and society for her book, Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and […]
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Professor Johnson Presents at the 2019 Lapidus Center Conference at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Jessica Marie Johnson Presents at the 2019 Lapidus Center Conference at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Johnson will be presenting on the Saturday Plenary “Slavery and the […]
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Trumps ‘Go Back’ Tweets as Seen Through the Lens of History
Two of our department’s historians, N.D.B. Connolly and Martha S. Jones, weigh in on how racism has historically shaped conversations about citizenship in the United States in recent The Boston […]
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Professor Kim receives the 2019 Berkshire Conference Article Prize
Congratulations to Professor H. Yumi Kim on being awarded the 2019 Berkshire Conference of Women Historian’s Article Prize for her article, “Seeing Cages: Photographs of home Confinement in Early Twentieth-Century […]