a DIALOGUES seminar Many Americans are familiar with our nation’s history of colonial settlement “from sea to shining sea,” but we often forget that expansion didn’t end at the West Coast. This seminar will look at 19th-century art and literature … Read more
a HALF-DAY DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR seminar featuring Max Owre Why did France, with the largest and most well-equipped army in Western Europe in 1939, fall to Nazi Germany in little over a month in the spring of 1940? To answer this, we will … Read more
A Dialogues Seminar Political and cultural leaders seek to represent their nation’s distinctive historical identity by constructing monuments, museums, public buildings, and impressive capital cities; but the links between art, architecture, and national identity have been especially significant in modern … Read more
DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. ALL REGISTERED PARTICIPANTS SHOULD'VE RECEIVED AN EMAIL WITH INFORMATION ABOUT REFUNDS AND CREDIT. A Dialogues Seminar Join us for this eclectic examination of advances in transportation in the 19th and 20th … Read more
A Dialogues Seminar Ships Ahoy! We’ll seek to understand why theft and violence became regular features of life on the high seas of the Early Modern era. From state-sanctioned raiders to independent rogues, pirates were threats on every major … Read more
List of Resources Shared in Zoom Chat A special Juneteenth Dialogues Seminar The history of work and laboring people in North Carolina has been entangled with ideas and social systems that placed Black workers in the most vulnerable and … Read more
A DIALOGUES SEMINAR Rescheduled from the summer, join us for this eclectic examination of advances in transportation in the 19th and 20th centuries. This seminar features a review of New York City’s solution for movement of people across the rapidly expanding urban landscape—local … Read more
an EVENING DIALOGUES seminar Take an evening trip to Europe as we investigate the sights and sounds of courtly life in the Early Moden era. From the portraiture of the powerful in the Renaissance, to the study and performance … Read more
a DIALOGUES seminar Historians often argue that all empires go through cycles of expansion, stagnation, and decline, but how do these cycles evolve in specific times and places? This is the broad question that we’ll examine in this dialogue seminar … Read more
a DIALOGUES seminar Democratic societies in all parts of the world are facing dual crises in the civic and physical health of their citizens. These facets of public wellbeing are closely connected, and those connections become apparent in the work … Read more
