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Monthly Archives: March 2011

Information for students choosing History courses for next year

Pre-Registration is on for 2011-2012! Some information for students choosing History courses for next year: — Look to the Department’s webpages and WebAdvisor for information about courses being offered in 2011-2012. — The University Calendar lists courses that will be taught at some point over the next three years. We have to rotate the courses […]

Important shifts in power dynamics in the Western hemisphere

Dr. Greg Grandin (NYU) delivered the department’s Annual History Lecture last night (March 22nd). A leading scholar of Modern Latin American history, Dr. Grandin has written widely on U.S. foreign policy, Cold War politics, human rights, and truth commissions. His acclaimed book Fordlandia (2009), about Henry Ford’s quixotic visions of progress in the Amazon jungle, […]

Annual History Lecture: Reading U.S.-Latin American Relations in the Age of Wikileaks

Dr. Greg Grandin, professor of Latin American History at New York University will present “The Elephant and the Empire: Reading U.S.-Latin American Relations in the Age of Wikileaks” Tuesday, March 22 at 7:00pm in Kinsella Auditorium. One of the world’s leading scholars of modern Latin America will deliver this year’s Annual History Lecture at St. […]