Professor Michael Oberg’s newest book, Peacemakers: The Iroquois, the United States, and the Treaty of Canandaigua, appears in print this week. Professor Oberg will be appearing at several events this year to commemorate the 220th anniversary of the Treaty. You can read more about his work and the historical and …
For the past year, Geneseo Senior Todd Christensen has been working on the new online exhibit “One Person, One Vote: The Legacy of SNCC and the Fight for Voting Rights” through an internship with the SNCC Legacy Project based at Duke University. The website went live today and is full …
Continuing the tradition begun with last year’s Teachers’ Day, the department hosted fifty social studies educators from more than twenty western New York for a day of programs on Friday, 13 March. Participants attended a teaching workshop on Latin American history led by Professors Ryan Jones, a workshop on modern …
Professor Cathy Adams and Justin Behrend appeared this week on “Connections with Evan Dawson”, a radio program airing on Rochester NPR affiliate WXXI, to discuss perspectives on African-American history. Behrend’s recently-published book, Reconstructing Democracy, was discussed extensively. You can read more about the program and listen to the conversation here.
Geneseo alumnus Frank Cafarella (class of 2001) has been named as the winner of the 2015 Mark K. Bonsteel Tachau Teacher of the Year by the Organization of American Historians. Frank is currently a social studies teacher with the Spencerport (NY) Central School District. As a History major, he completed …
We have another publication to celebrate – Michael Oberg’s Professional Indian: The American Odyssey of Eleazer Williams has now been published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. This is Oberg’s sixth major book and will be followed later this year by a monograph on the 1794 Treaty of Canandaigua. Professor …
The department congratulates Professor Justin Behrend on the publication of his book, Reconstructing Democracy: Grassroots Black Politics in the Deep South after the Civil War. Focusing on the lives of African-Americans in the Natchez District of Mississippi, Behrend’s work reconstructs the ways that ex-slaves involved themselves in democratic actions in …
Emilye Crosby’s essay on the historical background to the new film Selma has been featured in a number of different places this month. With commemorations of the Selma to Montgomery March and the 1964 Voting Rights Act coming up later this year, Emilye’s work serves as a good critical introduction …
Geneseo was fortunate to have alumnus Tom Ingrassia back on campus for a week as part of a writer-in-residence program. He made several campus presentations, including a reading of his book One Door Closes: Overcoming Adversity by Following Your Dreams and a class visit with students from Professor Cathy Adams’s …
Professor Michael Oberg has been featured in a number of recent events in connection with two major forthcoming research projects on the 1794 Treaty of Canandaigua and the 19th century missionary Eleazer Williams. This past week, Oberg was one of the featured panelists on “WXXI Connections with Evan Dawson”, a …
