Join the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program (SPOHP) as students share their experiences from the 12th Mississippi Freedom Project trip. A team of student researchers road tripped to the Mississippi […]
How can faculty, students, and community members engage in digital knowledge production as critical users and as meaningful producers? Decolonizing Representations is a set of FREE workshops designed for those […]
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Anne Moody is best known for her civil rights activism and her acclaimed memoir, Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968). Until now, no one has known what happened in Moody’s […]
How have museums engaged the debates about human atrocities? This lecture explores the development of permanent exhibitions and museums dedicated in part or entirely to address the problem of slavery […]
This presentation offers a comparative-historical perspective on the militarization of policing in through a close examination of urban policing in early 20th century America, a period that historians call “the […]
Joshua Teplitsky is Assistant Professor in the Department of History and the Program in Judaic Studies at Stony Brook University. He specializes in the history of the Jews in Europe […]
John H. Anderson, Jr., the son of Civil War reenactors has been part of his mother’s reenactment troop for 17 years. His mother had been troubled by the neglect and […]
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How do walls—man-made and otherwise—define global-cultural limits? How do the physical/material characteristics of walls bear on/inform/reflect/etc. their religious, political, social, and economic meanings, and vice versa? How do walls mark […]
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In this workshop, Professor Frye discusses his ongoing archeological concerns with walls and their functions and how these help us map premodern technospheres. David Frye is Professor of History at […]
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Following his public lecture on How Ancient Walls began Modern Barriers, David Frye will participate in a Panel discussion with other UF faculty to discuss various perceptions of premodern walls. […]