Was it the Boston Tea Party? Why Americans Drink Coffee
In this talk, Professor Topik considers the political economy and culture of coffee consumption in the Americas. He argues that it wasn't the Boston Tea Party that turned coffee into […]
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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 […]
Statewide Day of Action about Education Funding Crisis
March 4 has been declared "Day of Action" to protest the ongoing de-funding of public education and the rest of the public sector. Local actions will acquaint the public with […]
How Southern Backwardness Made Wal-Mart Executives Love High Tech and Low Wages
Sam Walton founded Ozark-based Wal-Mart and made it a distinctively productive corporation in the decades immediately following World War II. The key to success was a rationalization of the firm's […]
What’s Wrong with the One-State Solution: Why Ending the Occupation and Peace with Israel is Still the Palestinian National Goal
In this talk, Hussein Ibish examines the arguments put forward by Palestinian and Arab-American proponents of abandoning the goal of ending the occupation and establishing a Palestinian state and instead […]
Neither Priests nor Consuls: Authors and Authority in Roman Prose (1st cent. BC)
Sponsored by the Department of Classics. jwil 16.ii.2010
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 […]
Barbarian ‘Modernity’ and the Endurance of Romanitas: Some Continuity Issues Revisited
Philip Rousseau is Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor of Early Christian Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Early Christianity at The Catholic University of America. Sponsored […]
Reconstructing and Field Testing Ancient Greek Linen Body Armor: The UWGB Linothorax Project
For nearly 1,000 years, one of the most common forms of protection used by ancient Mediterranean warriors, including the armies of the Greeks and Alexander the Great, was the linothorax, […]