Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
What does it mean to be Zulu today? Is this different from what it has meant in the past? A new book of analysis and insight, Zulu Identities: Being Zulu Past and Present, edited by Dr. Benedict Carton, along with John Laband and Jabulani Sithole, wrestles with these and many other questions to show [...]
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Dr. Rosie Zagarri’s most recent book, Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic, has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press. Dr. Zagarri looks at the role of women in American politics during our nation’s first fifty years. In doing so, she examines an alternative explanation for the emergence of the first [...]
Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Dr. Christopher Hamner and the Center for History and New Media received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to fund the ongoing documentary editing project Papers of the War Department, 1783-1800. The project, a digital archive that restores the collection lost in the November 1800 fire that destroyed the War Office, was [...]