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Cultural Diffusion Across Eurasia, 500 BC-AD 200

The transmission of a vast number of art motifs, technologies, and cultural traits from West to East in prehistoricperiod was due to the speed of communications and trading networks across […]

Blaming the past: Apologizing for ancestral misdeeds

Dr. David Lowenthal, Professor Emeritus, University College, London, is the author of many works, including the well-known The Past is a Foreign Country. Dr. Lowenthal also be available to meet […]

The Empire of Cotton: A Global History

This lecture is part of the Colloquium on Work, Labor, and Political Economy series. Sven Beckert is the author of The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of […]

Victory Gardens: Join the Garden Revolution!

With interest in home gardens at the highest it has been in decades (even the White House has one), this event will take us back to another time when national […]