Faculty are invited to bring their classes. From 1100AM to 1230PM the national teach-in will be streaming live on the big screen. From 1230 to 200PM we will have local speakers and discussion about the current assault on unions, students, the poor and elderly, women, people of color, and gays. There will be a lot […]

The invasion of Normandy, the creation of an industrial war machine, and the falling reputation of rum—how does whiskey tie them all together? Lisa Jacobson answers this question by exploring the political and cultural ramifications of domestic whiskey shortages during World War II. Contrary to the common assumption that the federal government steered clear of […]

In Roman antiquity as much as now, the landscapes of Asia Minor were strewn with the traces of prior human habitation, from Hittite rock-cut reliefs to abandoned Urartian fortifications. Anatolian authors writing under Roman rule—notably during the second and third centuries CE—had a keen interest in exploring mythological and pseudo-historical narratives about the local past; […]

Lecture I: An Integrated Cast in a Segregated AmericaThursday, April 7, 4 p.m., Karl Geiringer Hall (Music 1250) On the Town (1944) was the first Broadway show of Leonard Bernstein (music), Betty Comden and Adolph Green (book and lyrics), and Jerome Robbins (choreography). It featured three sailors enjoying a one-day leave in New York City, […]