Current Faculty News
Evolving Theories of Civilization
Professor Sucheta Mazumdar urges students to look beyond familiar notions of nations and civilizations. See: Duke Today
Fall 2009 History Colloquium Schedule
Monday November 16
Reeve Huston "The Crisis in Popular Sovereignty in the United States, 1816 to 1825"
The colloquium will be in 229 Carr at 12:00 noon
Friday, November 6 - Annual SHA Meeting Reception - Downtown Louisville
The History Departments of The University Of North Carolina - Chapel Hill and Duke University Cordially Invite You To Attend A Reception At the Annual Meeting of the SHA
Friday, November 6, 2009 5:00 P.M. -- 7:00 P.M.
MARRIOTT LOUISVILLE DOWNTOWN, Salon F-G
Military History Seminar Program
Friday, October 30, 2009, 4 - 6 pm
Watson Jennison (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
Defining the Borders of Freedom: Black Resistance in Southern Georgia, 1812-1818
Friday, November 20, 2009, 4 - 6 pm
Anna Krylova (Duke University)
Bonded by Combat: Soviet Women and Men Sharing Violence, Authority, and Romance in Mechanized Warfare, 1942-1945
Spring 2010
Friday, January 29, 2010, 4 - 6 pm
Frank Biess (University of California, San Diego)
Moral Panic in Postwar Germany: The Abduction of Young Germans into the French Foreign Legion
Friday, February 26, 2010, 4 - 6 pm
Steven A. LeBlanc (Harvard University)
Pervasive, Deadly, and Rational: Prehistoric Warfare and its Relevance Today
Friday, March 19, 2010, 4 - 6 pm
Julia Osman (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
The Arsenal of Revolution: Military Reform and the Emergence of the Citizen Warrior in France 1787-1790
Friday, April 16, 2010, 4 - 6 pm
Robert Brigham (Vassar College)
Rethinking Pacification in Vietnam