Becoming Lincoln
Lecture by James Oakes, Professor of History and Graduate Center Chair in the Humanities, City University of New York
February 11, 2009 / 3:30pm to 5:00pm
2nd Floor, Levis Faculty Center
About the Speaker
James Oakes, Professor of History and Graduate Center Chair in the Humanities, City University of New York; author of two highly regarded books on the slave South, and most recently The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics.
TBD
Robin Blackburn, Professor of Sociology, Essex University; and Professor of Historical Studies, New School University
October 2009
About the Speaker
Robin Blackburn, Professor of Sociology, Essex University; and Professor of Historical Studies, New School University; an historical sociologist who teaches both at the University of Essex and the New School University in New York. He is the author of two major works of synthesis and interpretation: The Making of New World Slavery and The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery.