African American History / Studies

“The times they are a-changing,” but we are still quoting an old white male to describe the situation. The Midwest has long been thought of as pretty monolithic: all white, all farms, all “average,” all cold, and flat. The borders of other US regions seem to be easier to define, but the Midwest has often been white-washed by too-easy defininitions of who lives there and what life is like. 

CALL FOR PAPERS 

WORKERS AND GLOBAL CITIES: DETROIT AND BEYOND 

38TH Annual North American Labor History Conference October 20-22, 2016 Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan 

The Program Committee of the North American Labor History Conference (NALHC), an international conference with a global perspective on labor and working-class history, invites proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, and workshops on the theme of Workers and Global Cities: Detroit and Beyond, for our thirty-eighth annual meeting. 

From its flawed notion of “separate but equal” to the rampant violence against black bodies throughout the twentieth century, the United States faced a clear racial divide perpetuated by its Jim Crow culture and the disenfranchisement of blacks. In response, on August 28, 1963, noted American civil rights activist, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, urging radical social and political change in a society marred by a rich history of segregation and discrimination.

Call for Papers

“Conflict and Liberation”

April 22-23, 2016

Marquette University, Milwaukee WI

The English and History Departments from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Marquette University invite submissions for the third annual Graduate Student Humanities Conference to take place on April 22-23, 2016 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Graduate students from Marquette and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee are now accepting 250-word proposals from humanities graduate students whose work addresses our theme.

My name is Dr. Shantella Y. Sherman and I am an independent historian working in the field of the American Eugenics Movement.  I am currently looking for panelists for the 2016 American Studies Associatoin Conference Home / Not Home: Centering American Studies Where We Are (November 17-20, 2016, Denver, Colorado)  for a panel "Racial Uplift & the Disarticulation of Home."

H-Net This Week provides a roundup of network news, discussions, reviews, blogs, and more from across the H-Net Commons. The latest edition, highlighting the week of January 16-22, 2016, includes updates from the following networks:

Bodies of Christ: Visualizing Jesus Then and Now addresses a fundamental dilemma of Christianity: how to represent God's Son. This is particularly important in the twenty-first century. Issues of race, gender, and sexuality animate debates in church, state, and society. Considerations of bodies and body images dominate personal lives. And new technologies allow for the creation and distribution of images as never before. How we "see" Jesus Christ plays a vital role in how we see ourselves, our communities, our churches, our nations, and our societies.

Call for Papers

“Conflict and Liberation”

April 22-23, 2016

Marquette University, Milwaukee WI

The English and History Departments from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Marquette University invite submissions for the third annual Graduate Student Humanities Conference to take place on April 22-23, 2016 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Graduate students from Marquette and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee are now accepting 250-word proposals from humanities graduate students whose work addresses our theme.

Socrates Journal invites Authors/Researchers to submit their research papers for consideration of publication in the regular Issues of the Journal.