Professor Rashauna Johnson's new book Slavery's Metropolis (Cambridge, 2016) has been named a finalist for the Frederick Douglass Book Prize, one of the most coveted awards for the study of the African American experience.
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Filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick are coming to the Hopkins Center for the Arts on July 13th, 7pm, Spaulding Auditorium, to present an evevning of highlights from their forthcoming PBS series "The Vietnam War." followed by a discussion of
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In a New Yorker article, "An Underground College for Undocumented Immigrants refused admission by public universities and unable to get funding from
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Professor Emerita Marysa Navarro has been awarded the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) lifetime achievement award at the International Congress in Lima, Peru, on April 30, 2017. Story.
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James Wright, a historian and a president emeritus of Dartmouth College, is the author of Enduring Vietnam: An American Generation and Its War. He was an enlisted Marine before the Vietnam War. New York Times Op-Ed by President Emeritus James Wright.
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The Louisiana Historical Association's F. Kemper and Leila Williams Prize Committee has selected Slavery's Metropolis as its 2016 winner.
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Professor Naaborko Sackeyfio Lenoch has been awarded a Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars from the American Council of Learned Societies. Read full story.
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As members of the History Department at Dartmouth College, we condemn the US Executive Order “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States” issued by the Trump administration on January 27, 2017.
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Then-Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and Dartmouth history professor Edward Miller travel the Mekong River Delta on Jan. 24 searching for the site of a 1969 Viet Cong ambush of U.S. Navy Swift boats under Kerry’s command. Miller provided the
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John Hockenberry, host of The Takeaway, interviewed Prof. Miller on what we can expect from the President's visit. (see Full story)
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