The inaugural Forty-Niner Speaker Series on March 18 at 7:30 PM (free food). The series is sponsored by the UNCC students. The title is "Legalization and Decriminalization of Marijuana in North Carolina." A poll of the audience will be taken before and after the discussion to gauge their perception of the topic. There will be a Q and A.
Hear Dr.Seth Garfield on Monday, March 23, 2020, in Rowe 130 at UNC Charlotte. Dr. Seth Garfield is a professor of Latin American history. He is the author of Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil: State Policy, Frontier Expansion, and the Xavante Indians, 1937-1988 (Duke University Press, 2001), and In Search of the Amazon: Brazil, the United States, and the Nature of a Region (Duke University Press, 2013).
Comenzamos el primer podcast de Historias en español con una entrevista al historiador especialista en historia brasileña Oscar de la Torre...
A book by UNC Charlotte History professor Christine Haynes has been chosen the best in modern French history (post 1815) over the previous two years, receiving the inaugural Weber Book Prize from the UCLA Department of History.
The Eugen Weber Book Prize in French History is a biennial prize that is named for the eminent French historian Eugen Weber (1925-2007) and includes a cash award of $15,000. The prize was announced at the American Historical Association annual meeting in January in New York City. Haynes will receive the award formally in May when she delivers a talk at UCLA...
See my new book, available from Northwestern University Press. http://www.nupress.northwestern.edu/content/black-freethinkers
The History Department is pleased to announce the hire of Dr. Kristina Shull, who will join our faculty in August 2020 following the completion of a post-doctoral appointment at Harvard University. Kristina Shull is a public historian and interdisciplinary scholar specializing in race, foreign relations, immigration control, and prison privatization in the modern United States. She received her Ph.D. in History from UC Irvine. Her book manuscript, Invisible Bodies: Immigration Crisis and Private Prisons Since the Reagan Era, explores the concurrent rise of immigration detention and prison...
See my new book, available from Berghahn Books:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/19/opinions/historians-confederate-statues-opinion-roundup/index.html
Historian Mark Wilson studies the business and politics of the American industrial mobilization for World War II in the new book “Destructive Creation: American Business and the Winning of World War II.”
Wilson spent 10 years researching the archives of companies that made weapons for the war as well as military and government archives. His search led him to the records of Boeing Aircraft and Manufacturing, Ford Motor and DuPont U.S.
“The book offers an account of how the U.S. mobilized the economy to make supplies for the Allies to win World War II. It’s also a study of...
