"Populism" and Bigotry: Lessons from the 1920s Ku Klux Klan
Linda Gordon, Professor of History and a University Professor of the Humanities at New York University
Tuesday, October 16, Allbritton 311, 4:30 p.m.
History
History is a way of understanding the whole of the human condition as it has unfolded in time. Without history, nothing makes sense, from the meaning of words to the formation of identities, to institutions, states, and societies. History straddles the boundary between the social sciences and humanities. Like the other social sciences, it has established methods of investigation and proof, but it differs from them in that it encompasses, potentially, every area of human culture from the beginning of recorded time. Like the other humanities, it uses ordinary language and established modes of telling its stories, but it is constrained by evidence left us from the past.
The History Department is home to a distinguished group of scholar-teachers whose work ranges from the medieval to the post-modern, from the Middle East to the Midwest, from gender and sexuality to science and economics, from micro-history to world history.
NORMA RAE MOMENT: THE TRIUMPHANT INDIVIDUAL FROM THE "WORKING CLASS" AND THE REAGAN YEARS
Aimee Loiselle, Visiting Assistant Professor of History and FGSS
Tuesday, October 30,12:00 noon, PAC 001
BREXIT and the British Constitution
Linda Colley, Shelby M.C.Davis 1958 Professor of History Princeton University
Thursday, November 8, 4:30 p.m., Russell House