This installment of the History Department’s undergraduate lecture series is presented by Akela Reason. Professor Reason teaches courses in U.S. intellectual and cultural history in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including the history of American cities and material culture. She is currently preparing a study of the politics of Civil War monuments in New York City during the Gilded Age.

This installment of the History Department’s undergraduate lecture series is presented by Kevin Jones. Professor Jones teaches courses in the history of the Middle East, and he is currently writing a book on the political functions of poetry in Iraq between the first and second world wars.

Students of all majors welcome. Free pizza. This is an FYO event.

This installment of the History Department’s undergraduate lecture series is presented by Brian Drake. Professor Drake teaches the second half of the U.S. history survey and courses in environmental history. His recent book, Loving Nature, Fearing the State, focuses on the relationship of the postwar American environmental movement to postwar politics and ideology.

Students of all majors welcome. Free pizza. This is an FYO event.

This installment of the history department’s undergraduate lecture series is presented by professor Jim Cobb. Professor Cobb has written widely on the interaction between economy, society, and culture in the American South, and you’ll find him in the Flagpole as the columnist behind Cobbloviate.

Students of all majors welcome. Free pizza. This is an FYO event.

This installment of the History Department’s undergraduate lecture series is presented by Dr. Susan Mattern. Professor Mattern’s most recent book, The Prince of Medicine, is a social-historical biography of the ancient physician Galen, and she is currently working on a global history of menopause. She teaches courses in the history of ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt, marriage, disease, medicine, women, and law.

This installment of the History Department’s undergraduate lecture series is presented by Dr. Steve Soper. Professor Soper teaches the second half of the western civ survey and courses on modern Europe, Italy, and microhistory. He is working on a new book about political prisoners in southern Italy on the eve of Italian unification.  

Students of all majors are welcome. Free pizza. This is an FYO event.

Baruch College historian Elizabeth Heath will give a lecture entitled: "Crafting Cultural Commodities in a Global Age: Market Regulation, Empire, and the Struggle to Defend “French” Wine in the Early Twentieth Century"

From Heath's Baruch College profile:

Attendance is required for new graduate students in history. Join the graduate coordinator and graduate student representatives for coffee and new student program information on the first day of classes.

Catherine Taylor is a writer and editor who works on a wide range of nonfiction forms–from documentary and literary journalism to lyric essays, hybrid-genre writing, critical theory, and poetics. She is the author of Apart, a hybrid-genre book of memoir and political history about South Africa (Ugly Duckling Presse) and of Giving Birth: A Journey Into the World of Mothers and Midwives (Penguin Putnam) winner of the Lamaze International Birth Advocate Award.