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Please join us for a screening and discussion of "Pecker."
Join us for the Miller Center's "Spaces of Coexistence/Spaces of Differentiation" conference on April 26th and 27th.
Please join us for a conversation on "Citizen DuPont turns 150: Corporate Culture as Public Culture," with Taylor Currie of Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.
Join us at the Miller Center for a screening and Q & A with director Matt Porterfield.
Power and Persuasion: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Constructing and Contesting Legitimacy
Session One: 9:00am-10:30am: The Contested Nation
Join us for a disucssion with Professor Guillermo Wilde.
Join us for a discussion with Peter Sarris as we consider the novels of Emperor Justinian and legal culture in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.
Our paper lays out the broad contours of urban development in Southeast Asia, focusing on a case study of Rangoon between 1860 and 1940.
The 2016 Nathan & Jeanette Miller Lecture in History and Public Policy
This symposium, which celebrates the move of the journal Restoration to the University of
DECIMA, a collaborative digital humanities project, uses cutting-edge GIS (Geographic Information Systems) software to analyze the social, professional, and economic make-up of sixteenth-century F
In the later Middle Ages, the Virgin Mary was pictured as a strong, articulate, and commanding figure second only to Jesus on the devotional landscape.
This talk will consider the transmission of the text of the Old Testament in Western Europe from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, with particular emphasis on the relationship between manus
One of Barack Obama’s first executive orders created a cabinet-level Office of Urban Affairs to implement “a comprehensive approach to urban development.” Not since Jimmy Carter had there been any
Join Dr. Tom Sugrue of New York University for a lunchtime workshop on “Writing the History of the Recent Past: Challenges and Opportunities,” on April 12th in Taliaferro 2110.
Louis Adamic— a Slovene immigrant, labor journalist, best-selling author, and champion of pluralism during the 1930s—came to lead the Slovenian diaspora during World War II. Adamic raised money,
Radio in the American Sector (RIAS), an America propaganda station, became one the most popular and trusted sources for news behind the Iron Curtain. Based in West Berlin, the station was created
One of Barack Obama’s first executive orders created a cabinet-level Office of Urban Affairs to implement “a comprehensive approach to urban development.” Not since Jimmy Carter had there been any
Please join us on Tuesday, February 4th at 4pm in Taliaferro Hall 2110 for a talk by Dr. Keila Grinberg on "Slavery and International Law: Historical and Contemporary."
Please join us on Tuesday, January 26th at 12pm in FSK 2120 for a lunch time talk with Dr.
Please join us for a lunchtime talk on "Rethinking the Urban Hinterlands of Ancient East Africa" with Dr. Jonathan Walz, Rollins College, on December 7th at 12 pm. Dr.
Please join us for an afternoon conversation on "Liberalism and Empire: Histories and Legacies" with Dr. Richard Price of the University of Maryland History Department.
Please join us for an afternoon conversation on "Managing Inequality: Slum Clearance, Low-cost Housing, and Racialized Citizenship in Interwar Detroit" with Dr.
Please join us for an afternoon conversation titled "Intimate Ties and the Boston Massacre" with Dr. Serena Zabin, of Carleton University.
Please join us for an afternoon conversation on "Frederick Douglass, Thomas Auld, and the Reunion Narrative: 1877, 1881, 1892" by Dr. Robert Levine, of the University of Maryland, College Park.
Please join us for an afternoon conversation entitled "Argentine Jews Under the 'Chuppah; Sephardim, Asheknazim, and Ethnic and Sub-Ethnic Identities (1920-1960)," with Dr. Adriana Brodsky of St.
Please join us for a conversation with Kate Brown as she discusses "Plutopia: How Nuclear Disasters Created Utopian Cities." To celebrate the beginning of the new academic year, the History Depart
Please join us for a lunch-time conversation on "Alternatives to the Lecture Format: Is 'Blended' Learning Right for History?"
Please join us for an afternoon lecture with Geraldo L. Cadava on his recent book, Standing on Common Ground: The Making of a Sunbelt Borderland (Harvard, 2013)
Please join us for "Latina/o, Borderlands, or Immigration History: What’s the difference?," a lunch conversation especially for graduate students with Geraldo L. Cadava.
We invite you to a lunch-time conversation with Professor Federico Barbierato (University of Verona) on "Unbelievers' Theatre: Objects, Gestures & Religious
Please join us as Birgit Brander Rasmussen presents "Guerrilla Philology, Guerrilla Linguistics: Sequoyah's Achievement Reconsidered" (co-sponsored with the Department of English)
Please join us for an afternoon conference on Rethinking the West in a Post-Cold War World
Please join us as Professor Jennifer Wingate (St. Francis) discusses
Please join us for a lunch conversation with Tamar Herzog as she discusses "Why We Call Things Colonial."
Please join us for an afternoon lecture with Tamar Herzog as she discusses "Defining Imperial Spaces: How South America became a Contested Territory."
Please join us as Professor Robyn Muncy discusses her new book, Relentless Reformer: Josephine Roche and Progressivism in Twentieth-Century America
Many thanks to all who attended the annual Rundell Lecture as Geoffrey Parker presented "Incest, Blind Faith, and Conquest: Defining Boundaries the Habsburg way, 1500-1700"
The University of Maryland, College Park's HGSA, in cooperation with the Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies, will hold its 10th Annual History Graduate Student Conferen
Please join us for a lunch conversation with Anne Rubin as she presents “Justifiable Destruction?: Sherman, The March, and the Laws of War”
Please join us for an afternoon lecture with Professor James Maffie as he presents "Understanding the Nature of Change in the Aztec Cosmos."
Please join us for a lunch conversation with Adam Rothman as he discusses his new book, Beyond Freedom's Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery.
Dr. Pamela O. Long presented "Engineering, Cartography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome"
Please join us as Professor Michael Ross (Univerisity of Maryland) discusses his new book, The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era
Lunch time conversation with Ben Bederson (UMD, Associate Provost for Learning Initiatives and Executive Director of the Teaching and Learning Transformation Center).
Professor Dina Khoury (GWU) discussed her recent book, Iraq in Wartime: Soldiering, Martyrdom, and Remembrance (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
Emer O’Dwyer, recipient of a 20th Century Japan Research Award in the Gordon W. Prange Collection presented “Exposed!: 'Disclosure Magazines' in Post-Surrender Japan”
Professor Kate Epstein (Rutgers University) discussed "The Borders of National-Security Information" in a lunch time conversation.
A lunchtime conversation with Jadwiga Biskupska as she presented "Polish Elite Society under Nazi Occupation: Civil-Military Relations in a Land without a State" was held at noon on Wednesday, Oct
"Archaeology and History: At the Meeting Place of Two Disciplines," a colloquium celebrating the scholarly career of Professor Kenneth Holum
Professor Katherine Unterman (Texas A&M University) joined us Monday, September 29th for a lunch workshop and afternoon talk as she presented her paper, "Detectives without Borders."
The 2014 Nathan & Jeanette Miller Distinguished Lecture in History and Public Affairs as Professor Donald Goldstein presented "History, Public Policy and Pearl Harbor."
Please come to a lecture by Dr. Thai Jones on the friendship between Moses Finley and I.F.
The Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies invites you to attend a workshop by Professor Millington Bergeson-Lockwood (UMD). Professor Bergeson-Lockwood's work-in-progress paper is titled "Black Boston and ‘The Beast’: Benjamin Butler and Conflicts over African American Partisanship in 1880s Boston, Massachusetts." Comments by Professor Robert Chiles (UMD).
Miller Center: “The War in Afghanistan: Lessons and Legacies” (Professor Aaron O'Connell) Friday May 2nd
The Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies invite you to attend a lunch workshop with Professor Claire Judde (Universite de Toulouse). "The inhabitants of Murano and Venice : Political Actions, Reactions and Revolts at the End of the Middle Ages"
On Monday April 28th, Professor Carla Pestana (UCLA) will present the annual Rundell Lecture: "Religion and Empire in Early America Reconsidered." Introductions by Professor Holly Brewer. Remar
The Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies invites you to attend a workshop with Professor Olivier Wieviorka titled "The French Memory of WWII."
History Department faculty and students are invited to attend a Miller Center Film Series showing of the documentary film Crossing Arizona (2006) featuring comments by Professor Chantel R
The Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies invites you to attend a lunch talk by Professor Michele Lamprakos, entitled "Conflict, Convivencia, and the Life of Buildings.” Profes
The Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies invites you to a lunch talk by Professor Justin Jacobs (American University) on Wednesday April 16th from 12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. in Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 2120 (The Merrill Room). This talk is titled "Publishing and the Field of Transnational History."
The Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies invite you to attend an afternoon talk featuring guest speakers Mary Tamaki Murakami and Terry Shima. The talk is titled "Japanese Ame
The Miller Center of the History Department is pleased to sponsor a writing workshop for Graduate Students on April 8 from 12:00 noon to 1:30 p.m. in Francis Scott Key Hall, Room 2120.
On Monday March 31st the Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies invite you to attend an afternoon workshop with Professor Claire Judde (Universite de Toulouse).
This event is co-sponsored by UMD's Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies, the Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies, the Department of Classics, and the Miller Center.
On Thursday March 27th from 12:30 p.m. until 2:00 p.m., the Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies invites you to attend a lunch talk by Professor Idesbald Goddeeris titled "The Efficiency of Secret Services: A Critical Reflection Based on Polish Archives."
On Wednesday March 26th the Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies invites you to attend a panel titled "Sixties Radicalism, Black and White."
On Wednesday March 12th from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., Professor Colleen Ho will be presenting a paper titled "The Mongols in Matthew Paris' Chronica Majora: A Mirror of Medieval Europe."
This panel brings together top experts on Ukraine and Eastern European revolution, with the goal of explaining to a broad audience what's going on, with an eye toward past precedent in the region.
On Friday February 28th from 11:00 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. the Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program will be hosting a Colloquium with Camille Robcis.
Despite scholarly opposition toward her groundbreaking book, “Thomas Jefferson & Sally Hemings: An American Controversy,” historian, Harvard Law School professor and Pulitzer Prize winner Annette Gordon-Reed published an unrelenting body of research that led to a 1998 DNA test that proved the once-rumored relationship between Jefferson and the woman he owned. Her current work continues the story of the Hemings-Jefferson family. She too serves as a humanities commission member for the "Heart of the Matter."
On Thursday February 27th from 12:00 noon until 1:00 p.m. the Miller Center will be hosting a lunch talk titled "A Conversation with Annette Gordon-Reed and Ira Berlin."
History Department faculty and students are invited to attend a Miller Center Film Series showing of the feature film Hannah Arendt (2012). Starring Barbara Sukowa and directed by Margar
Faculty and students are invited to attend a lunch talk titled "Creative Destruction: Sender Jarmulowsky, Financial Failure and the Reshaping of American Banking, 1873-1914" with Professor Rebecca
During the month of February, the UMD Department of History will be conducting a series of interviews to hire a historian of pre-modern China. To learn more about the state of the field in Chinese History, the Department invited noted historian of China, Peter Perdue, to campus on February 3rd.
Professor Anthony Pagden (UCLA) will present a paper titled "That Peculiar Word 'Imperium': Defining Empire from Rome to Washington." (PDF below).
Watch this space--event page under construction.
On Thursday October 10, 2013 from 12:00 noon until 1:30 p.m., the Miller Center hosted a lunch colloquium by Professor Louis Galambos titled "The Creative Society--Is the Price Still Right?"
On September 30th Professor John McNeill (Georgetown) will be delivered the Miller Lecture (KEY0106). His talk was titled: Yellow Fever, Malaria, and the Spanish Empire in the Americas, 1650-1830.” Film of McNeill's lunch talk.
