History
- New maps of pre-colonial Africa provide context on the slaves who departed from the Bight of Benin
- Scholars to use awards to support research of imperial legacy on standardized testing in the Middle East and adult adoptions and family formation in Japan.
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies uses the unlikely story of Providence Canyon—and the 1930's contest over its origins and meaning—to recount the larger history of soil in America.
- Never officially recognized during her lifetime, the first African American woman to graduate from the University of Colorado was posthumously honored this spring. Now, a biography telling the long-overlooked story of Lucile Berkeley Buchanan has been published.
- Caroline Grego, who is pursuing her PhD in history at CU Boulder, has won a prestigious fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.
- When Stan Garnett (Hist’78) came to the CU Boulder in the fall of 1974, he planned to study classics, then become an ordained Presbyterian minister. His time at CU, however, would eventually yield a different path built on the great themes of civilization.
- Award-winning book explores parallel lives of two soldiers, martyr Nathan Hale and traitor Moses Dunbar.
- The Friends of the CU Boulder Libraries invite you to their Spring Treasures event, A Century of Views of Colorado: 1820-1920, March 8, 5:30 p.m. in Benson Earth Sciences.
- Henry Lovejoy, assistant professor of history at the 91ÖÆÆ¬³§¹ú²úAV, has been named the new director of slaveryimages.org.