[History_students] History Club events for February

[Beiriger, Eugene]

Dear Intrepid Students,

Read below for some of this quarter's events.  We are sponsoring or
co-sponsoring all of them.  Be sure to write the dates and times down!

See you there!

Dr. B
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Black History Month Series
February 2008 
Sponsored by the Program for African and Black Diaspora Studies, the
Department of History, and the Women and Gender Studies Program

Thursday, February 14. Noon. Library 400. 
LUNCH and Video presentation.
Howard Lindsey (History, DePaul University) presents "Meltdown of a
Chocolate City: New Orleans after Katrina"
Howard Lindsey is author of A History of Black America

Friday, February 22. 3:30pm. SAC 254. 
History Club Presents:
James Wolfinger (History and School of Education, DePaul University),
"Civil Rights Before King: Carolyn Moore and Black Activism in World War
II Philadelphia"
Refreshments.
James Wolfinger is author of Philadelphia Divided: Race and Politics in
the City of Brotherly Love

Friday, February 29. 1 pm. DePaul Art Museum. Keynote Lecture.
Stephanie Camp (History, University of Washington), "American Beauty:
Slavery and the Making of an Ideal"
Reception to follow.
Stephanie Camp is author of Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and
Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South

 
Thomas A. Foster
Department of History, SAC 420
2320 North Kenmore Avenue
DePaul University
Chicago IL 60614
http://condor.depaul.edu/~history/facultypages/full_time/foster.htm
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office: 773 325-4169
fax: 773 325-4764


Eugene Beiriger, Ph.D. 
Associate Professor 
Department of History 
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 
DePaul University 
2320 N. Kenmore Ave. 
Chicago, IL 60614 
773/325-7454 (phone) 
ebeirige at depaul.edu