One hundred and fifty years ago, on Dec. 2, 1859, antislavery activist John Brown was hanged in Virginia for treason, murder, and inciting insurrection. Brown was controversial in his own time and continues to be today, but historians agree that Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry played an important role in precipitating the secession crisis and the American Civil War. Convinced of Brown’s historical importance, the students in Professor David Voelker’s “Problems in American Thought” course will be reading brief excerpts from John Brown’s speeches and letters as well as from speeches, editorials, and other sources that both praise and condemn Brown and his raid on Harper’s Ferry.
The readings will take place in the Alumni Rooms A and B (in the rear of the dining hall), from 4:00-5:00 PM on Wed., December 2.
Thomas Paine gets a nod in Going Rogue, and Sarah Palin’s not the only conservative who loves this American revolutionary. But the right has him—and their American history—all wrong, writes historian Harvey Kaye.
“Crossing Borders: Disciplines, Cultures, and Histories”
A lecture by Craig Lockard
November 19, 3:30
Christie Theatre, University Union, UWGB
Please join Social Change and Development as we honor our retiring colleague Craig Lockard. Professor Lockard has served the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay as a dedicated teacher, scholar, and institutional and intellectual leader. To our benefit, he has also served the larger academy and intellectual world as a distinguished historian and theoretician of world history.
Co-sponsored by the History Department and the Center for History and Social Change. Please contact Kim Nielsen at nielsenk@uwgb.edu with questions or if accommodations are needed.
Jeremi Suri: “Henry Kissinger and the American Century” Thursday, Nov. 12 at 2 p.m., University Union’s Christie Theater
Suri is the E. Gordon Fox Professor of History at UW-Madison. In 2007, Smithsonian Magazine named him one of America’s “Top Young Innovators” in the humanities and sciences. He is also the author of Henry Kissinger and the American Century (2007), The Global Revolutions of 1968 (2007), and Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente (2003).
The Department of Humanistic Studies and the Brown County Library invite you to participate in the next Great Books Discussion Tuesday, November 10 on the Lower Level of the Brown County Library (Central Branch – 515 Pine St., Downtown Green Bay) beginning at 6:30 p.m.
Ray Bradbury’s Farenheit 451 presented by Professor David Voelker, UWGB History Department
The discussion is free and open to the public. Faculty, students, and community members are encouraged to attend. Of course, we encourage you to read the book before attending the discussion, but even if you cannot, you may find the session enlightening.
Jonathan Holloway: “‘It Never Happened’: Race, Class and the Unbearable Burden of Memory” Monday, Oct. 26 at 12:45 p.m., Christie Theater
Holloway is professor of History and African American Studies, and master of Calhoun College at Yale University. He has written Confronting the Veil: Abram Harris Jr., E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche, 1919-1941 (2002), edited Ralph Bunche’s A Brief and Tentative Analysis of Negro Leadership (2005), and the co-edited the anthology, Black Scholars on the Line: Race, Social Science, and American Thought in the 20th Century (2007). He is presently working on his next monograph, Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory, Identity, and Politics in Black America, 1941-2000.
On Wednesday, October 7, Helen Keller was honored with a bronze statue at the U.S. Capitol, recognizing her efforts on behalf of people with disabilities. Kim Nielsen, UW-Green Bay professor of Social Change and Development and author of several books on Keller, including The Radical Lives of Helen Keller, was interviewed for Thursday’s Democracy Now!, a daily TV/radio news program. Nielsen discussed Keller’s efforts on behalf of those with disabilities, feminists, and working people.
The Department of Humanistic Studies and the Brown County Library invite you to participate in the next Great Books Discussion Tuesday, October 13 on the Lower Level of the Brown County Library (Central Branch – 515 Pine St., Downtown Green Bay) beginning at 6:30 p.m.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight presented by Professor Heidi Sherman, UWGB History Department
The discussion is free and open to the public. Faculty, students, and community members are encouraged to attend. Of course, we encourage you to read the Sir Gawain and the Green Knight before attending the discussion, but even if you cannot, you may find the session enlightening.
