Ryan Booth participated in the first of two symposia on “Rethinking the Indian Wars” on September 26-29 in Taos, NM. The event is co-sponsored by the SMU Clements Center on Southwest History and the Arizona Historical Society. The papers from this symposium will be published by the University of Nebraska in an edited volume. Booth’s […]
Robert Franklin is giving the third “Henry R Fenbert Challenging History Lecture” at the Washington State Historical Society on Saturday, September 28. The event is free with required registration.
Robert Franklin was featured on Oregon Public Broadcasting’s “Think Out Loud” program on Monday, September 23. The article and interview are here: https://www.opb.org/article/2024/09/23/think-out-loud-hanford-history-project-legacy-manhattan-project-cold-war/ OPB has spent the week out at Hanford talking to various stakeholders and learning about the history and current work to manage Hanford’s high and low-level wastes.
Heather McNamee presented a paper at the Association for the Study of African American Life and History Conference in Pittsburgh, PA. Her paper “Rhythms of Resistance: Black Music and Student Protest in Jonesboro, Arkansas” examined the role of music like James Brown’s “I’m Black and I’m Proud” in fostering racial consciousness, identity, and activism among […]
Brenna Miller and Jesse Spohnholz led a faculty workshop on “Facilitating Students’ Active Learning in Introductory World History Courses,” for the American Historical Association’s Michigan Conference on Introductory History Courses, hosted by Oakland University, in Rochester, Michigan, 20-21 September. Workship participants teach high school, community college and public and private 4-year colleges and universities in […]
Andra Chastain gave an invited talk in Spanish, via Zoom, for an environmental studies course at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). The title of the talk was “Infraestructura desigual: La construcción del Metro de Santiago en democracia y dictadura.” The course, taught by Dra. Natalia Verónica Soto Coloballes, was “Social and Historical Aspects of the […]
Bob Bauman and Robert Franklin are participating in the Hanford Nuclear Legacy lecture series, part of a five-year partnership between WSU Tri-Cities, Columbia Basin College, Higashi Nippon International University, and Fukushima College. Their first lecture, on the Manhattan Project and Hanford’s Role in WWII, takes place this Thursday at the WSU Tri-Cities Auditorium. Robert is […]
Sue Peabody was interviewed about translating the museum exhibit, “L’étrange histoire de Furcy Madeleine, 1786-1856,” about slavery and emancipation in France’s Indian Ocean colonies, for American audiences: “Translating Slavery, Freedom, and Race for French and American Publics,” Imaginaries: Films, Fictions, and Other Representations of French-Speaking Worlds, 14, No. 2 (Summer 2024). The traveling exhibit has opened at U. Arkansas […]
This Friday Robert Franklin is part of a panel for “(Re)Claim: Harley Cowan’s Manhattan Project”, a photographic exhibit installed at the Whitworth University Library and Permanent Art Collection that focuses on the industrial architecture of the Hanford Site.
Peter Boag and the Washington State Historical Society in Tacoma co-curated an exhibit on trans-history in 2021. The exhibit is reopening at the Oregon Historical Society in Portland this week.