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    Lecture: Dr. Teishan Latner, "Cuban Revolution in America"
    Wednesday, September 04, 2019 // 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm

    What impact did the Cuban Revolution have on the American Left? Teishan A. Latner contends that in the era of decolonization, the Vietnam War, and...

    Lecture: Dr. Nan Enstad, "The Jim Crow Cigarette In China"
    Thursday, September 26, 2019 // 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm

    Nan Enstad creates an intimate cultural history to reveal the myriad cross-cultural encounters in corporate life prior to World War II. In her...

    Lecture, Dr. Matthew Karp: "The Early Republican Party and the Democratic Struggle Against Slavery"
    Wednesday, October 09, 2019 // 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm

    How exactly did the antislavery movement go "mainstream?" In his research, Dr. Matthew Karp examines the antislavery politics of the 1850s and how...

    Kimmika at podium

    Chat in the Stacks: Commemorating 1619
    Thursday, October 10, 2019 // 2:30 pm

    Join us for our first Chat in the Stacks of the fall where we will commemorate 1619. Check back for more.

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    Lecture: Dr. Heather Dichter, "The 1968 Olympics... in Divided Berlin?"
    Wednesday, November 06, 2019 // 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm

    Dr. Heather Dichter chronicles the efforts of West Berlin mayor Willy Brandt to bring the 1968 Olympics Games to the city of Berlin which had only...

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    Invisible Warriors: African American Women of World War II
    Thursday, November 07, 2019 // 2:00 pm

    Join us at the Blockson Collection for a film screening of Invisible Warriors: African American Women of World War II. 

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