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Urban History and Theory Reading Group

Wednesday evening marked the first meeting of the newly-formed Urban History and Theory Reading Group. Thirteen graduate students and faculty from the History Department met over wine and snacks to talk about the influence of urban theory on their research and the field of history more broadly. The conversation was structured around a sci-fi mystery novel by China Miéville, The City and the City, which the History Department had supplied to those who attended. The lively, free-flowing conversation spilled late into the… read more »

The Harper’s Ferry Five: Tracing the Roots of John Brown’s Actual Plan for 1859, and the Southern Black Freedom Fighters who Joined Him

A Talk by Peter H. Wood Emeritus Professor of History, Duke University   Tuesday, 2/21: Hayti Community Center                         DURHAM at 7 PM Wednesday, 2/22: Shaw Auditorium at Fayettevelle State Univ.                         FAYETTEVILLE at 2 PM Thursday, 2/23: Pfeiffer Chapel, Bennett College              … read more »

Ashley Rose Young Curates Photography Exhibit on Street Food Culture

Ashley Rose Young curated To Market, to Market! Urban Street Food Culture Around the Globe, a photography exhibit that explores street foods, food markets, and the people who provision urban communities across the globe with fresh and prepared foods. Young captured these images (24 in total) while conducting archival research and fieldwork for her dissertation on Atlantic World food cultures. The exhibit seeks to capture food vendors' entrepreneurial spirit and efforts to advance their local businesses in an… read more »

Ashley Rose Young Co-authors Essay in Food and Museums

Ashley Rose Young co-authored an essay with Jennifer Jacqueline Stratton entitled, "Terroir Tapestries: An Interactive Consumption Project." Young and Stratton were co-directors of the Subnature and Culinary Culture Project at Duke University. The Subnature Project examined marginalized and “bizarre” foods through undergraduate curriculum and public history events such as community meals, foraging walks, collaborative art projects, and a speaker series in the fall of 2014. The essay they contributed to Food and… read more »

Learning the Right Lessons: How the Dems Lost North Carolina

An article, published by Prof. Gunther Peck, analyzing how and why Hillary Clinton lost in North Carolina and how progressives can build a bigger more enduring majority. https://medium.com/dukeuniversity/learning-the-right-lessons-how-the-dems-lost-north-carolina-90522ac5cd2d#.9oo8zjk4t Left: a view of uptown Charlotte’s skyline. Right: an old general store in Bladen County, NC. Photos by Corey Griffith and Gerry Dincher via Flickr CC. read more »

PBS’ AMERICAN EXPERIENCE “The Great War”

During PBS’ AMERICAN EXPERIENCE “The Great War” session at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour in Pasadena, CA on Monday, January 16, 2017, Pulitzer Prize-winning author A. Scott Berg, military historian and author Edward A. Gutierrez, producer Stephen Ives, author and Duke University associate professor Adriane Lentz-Smith and series executive producer Mark Samels discuss the complex story of World War I.(Premieres April 10-12, 2017)All photos in this set should be credited to Rahoul Ghose/PBS read more »

Ashley Rose Young Co-Curates Advertising Exhibit

Ashley Rose Young, the graduate intern for the Hartman Center for Sales, Marketing & Advertising History, co-curated “Agencies Prefer Men!”: The Women of Madison Avenue. The exhibit runs through March 17, 2017 in the Mary Duke Biddle Room at the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library. The exhibit “focuses on the long and sometimes hidden history of women in advertising, tracing the career opportunities open to women as they progress from clerical staff to copywriting, art and market research and… read more »

Adriana M. Brodsky Publishes her First Monograph

Adriana M. Brodsky, a tenured Associate Professor St. Mary's College of Maryland has just been published her first monograph (she co-edited a book in 2013): Sephardi, Jewish, Argentine: Community and National Identity, 1880-1960.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016. At the turn of the 20th century, Jews from North Africa and the Middle East were called Turcos ("Turks"), and they were seen as distinct from Ashkenazim, not even identified as Jews. Adriana M. Brodsky follows the history of Sephardim… read more »

Bass Connections in Brazil

About a decade ago, the political party in power in Brazil launched a massive initiative to make high-quality, affordable university degrees accessible to students from low-income families. This past summer, the president of that party faced impeachment, and Brazil’s economy was on the brink of collapse. https://today.duke.edu/2016/12/bass-connections-brazil read more »

Franklin Gallery@History video on FHI YouTube Channel

Published on Nov 22, 2016 Part of the Humanities Futures initiative: http://humanitiesfutures.org John Hope Franklin was one of the most well-known and influential scholars of his era and broke countless professional barriers along the way. Franklin was also the definition of a public intellectual, continuously lending his scholarship and influence to causes beyond the walls of academia. The new Franklin Gallery @ History, located at Duke University's East Campus in the Carr Building where the scholar… read more »

Anna Krylova is the founder and co-organizer with Frances Hasso of Duke on Gender Colloquium

The Duke on Gender Colloquium brings together Duke faculty from humanities and social sciences and visiting scholars and offers an multi-disciplinary space to develop and present current research and further critical conversations within gender and women’s history, gender and queer theory, sexuality studies, transgender studies, and the study of feminism, social movements, and contemporary social issues and policy in a transnational world.   read more »

Professor Humphreys Participates in Congressional Briefing

Margaret Humphreys (Josiah Trent Professor in the History of Medicine, Duke) participated in congressional briefings on "Zika: Historic Parallels and Policy Responses," sponsored by the National History Center of the American Historical Association on September 12, 2016.  Professor John McNeill of Georgetown University (Duke PhD History 1981) was the co-presenter.  For more information and video of the presentation, visit: http://www.mehumphreys.com/dc-zika read more »