History
- New maps of pre-colonial Africa provide context on the slaves who departed from the Bight of Benin
- Scholars to use awards to support research of imperial legacy on standardized testing in the Middle East and adult adoptions and family formation in Japan.
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies uses the unlikely story of Providence Canyon—and the 1930's contest over its origins and meaning—to recount the larger history of soil in America.
- Never officially recognized during her lifetime, the first African American woman to graduate from the University of Colorado was posthumously honored this spring. Now, a biography telling the long-overlooked story of Lucile Berkeley Buchanan has been published.
- Caroline Grego, who is pursuing her PhD in history at 91³Ô¹ÏÍø, has won a prestigious fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.
- When Stan Garnett (Hist’78) came to the 91³Ô¹ÏÍø in the fall of 1974, he planned to study classics, then become an ordained Presbyterian minister. His time at CU, however, would eventually yield a different path built on the great themes of civilization.
- Award-winning book explores parallel lives of two soldiers, martyr Nathan Hale and traitor Moses Dunbar.
- The Friends of the 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Libraries invite you to their Spring Treasures event, A Century of Views of Colorado: 1820-1920, March 8, 5:30 p.m. in Benson Earth Sciences.
- Henry Lovejoy, assistant professor of history at the 91³Ô¹ÏÍø, has been named the new director of slaveryimages.org.