Archive: History

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Working Together: Professor and Alumnus Co-Edit Book After Four-Year Collaboration

Peter C. Pfeiffer and Nathan T. Tschepik (Cโ€™18) co-edited Meanings of Modern Work in Nineteenth- and Twenty-First-Century German Literature and Film, which just appeared withโ€ฆ

November 5, 2020

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Georgetown College Hosts Racial Justice Speaker Series to Promote Equity and Inclusion

Next week, Georgetown College will host its first event in the series โ€œSuch a Time As Thisโ€: Racial Justice and the University in order to explore how research by Georgetownโ€ฆ

September 24, 2020

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New College Faculty for 2020-2021

Georgetown College is pleased to welcome 24 new full-time faculty members with primary appointments in 16 College departments and programs. This cohort will help enrich theโ€ฆ

September 2, 2020

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Library Acquires Rare Logbook That Illustrates Life Aboard a Slave Ship

A recent gift to Georgetown University Library, now digitized and made available online, provides poignant and valuable insight into the Atlantic slave trade. โ€œAs historians,โ€ฆ

August 20, 2020

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Professor Featured in Series on Ulysses S. Grant Discusses Monuments, Movements and Memorialization

Marcia Chatelain, a Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor in the Department of History and African American Studies and author of Franchise: The Golden Arches in Blackโ€ฆ

June 16, 2020

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University Holds Racial Justice Dialogue in Wake of Recent, Past Police Brutality

The pandemic and its disproportionate effect on black people combined with new acts of violence against them have created deep pockets of pain in the universityโ€™s blackโ€ฆ

June 15, 2020

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College Hosts Virtual Teach-In, From COVID to Minneapolis: Structural Racism in America

โ€œIt pains me that we gather under the context of COVID-19 and the ongoing structural violence of anti-black racism,โ€ says Soyica Colbert, moderator of the panel, Vice Dean ofโ€ฆ

June 4, 2020

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Transcription Event for Georgetown Slavery Archive Honors DC Emancipation Day

More than 100 Georgetown students, staff, faculty, alumni and descendants of individuals enslaved and sold by the Maryland Province of Jesuits in 1838 participated in a weeklongโ€ฆ

May 8, 2020

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Professor Michael Kazin Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Department of History professor Michael Kazin was recently elected a member of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The historian joins a group of accomplishedโ€ฆ

May 4, 2020

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First Generation College Student Studies Race, Identity and Community in Thesis on Benโ€™s Chili Bowl

Sonali Mirpuri (Cโ€™20) was interested in studying how first-generation Indian students such as herself navigated the intersections of race, identity and community at Georgetown.โ€ฆ

April 30, 2020