Spring 2008

Faculty Colloquium
April 25, 2008
Adelphi University/Nassau Community College History Colloquium


Awards Dinner
April 16, 2008
Orchid Restaurant
View 2008 Award Recipients and Photo Gallery

Students were inducted into Phi Alpha Theta, the National Honors Society in History. Scholarships and awards were presented to juniors and seniors.


35th Annual History Department Conference
March 19, 2008
Ruth S. Harley University Center
Adelphi University, Garden City Campus
Conference website

In celebration of women’s history month and the work of historian Gerda Lerner, the Adelphi University Department of History will have “Women’s engagements in peace and social justice projects” as its theme. In addition to the department’s usual presentation of faculty member papers and engaged discussion, it will also elicit the participation of high school students and their teachers.

Gerda Lerner: "Women's History as a Tool for Social Change"
October 1, 2007
University Center Ballroom

Gerda Lerner, who fled Nazi persecution at age 18, became a pioneer in the field of women's history, and founder of the first women's studies program in the U.S. at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She chronicled her experiences as a refugee and political activist in Fireweed: A Political Autobiography. Dr. Gerda Lerner is considered a pioneer in the field of women's history. She is credited with teaching the first postwar college course in women's history and helped establish several women's history graduate programs. She studies issues of race and class in relationship to gender issues. Her book, Black Women in White America: A Documentary History, was one of the first historical books to detail the contributions of black women.

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Jeremy Black visits Adelphi University
September 27, 2007

Jeremy Black is one of Britain’s most distinguished historians. Black is the author of more than fifty books including: War and the World: Military Power and the Fate of Continents, 1450-2000 (Yale UP, 1998), and War: Past, Present, and Future (St. Martin’s, 2000). He has lectured widely at major universities in the United States and is a frequent lecturer at the United States Military Academy.



Spring 2007

History Department Awards Dinner
May 3, 2007
Orchard Restaurant in Garden City
View 2007 Award Recipients and Photo Gallery


Writing Fact, Writing Fiction: A Panel Discussion
April 18, 2007
Science Building, Room 215 North

Historian: "But that's not how it happened!"
Novelist: "Oh yes it is--in MY story, anyway!"

Panelists:
Jennifer Fleischner, English Department chair and author of Nobody's Boy
Shelia Kohler, author of Bluebird or the Invention of Happiness
Barnet Schecter, author of The Devil's Own Work
Prof. Martha Cooley, English Department, panel moderator

Cosponsored by the Departments of English and History, and the Library
with the support of the Honors College.


The Impact of the 2006 Election on Immigration Policy
March 28, 2007
Blodgett Hall, Room 209

Panelists:
Margaret Gray, Political Science Department
Dennis Hidalgo, History Department

Moderated by Martin Haas
Sponsored by the History Society and the Departments of History and Political Science.


34th Annual Adelphi History Conference
"Jamestown at 400"
March 20, 2007
Ruth S. Harley University Center

Conference website



Contact Us
For additional information, please contact:

Department of History
Blodgett Hall, Room 200
Adelphi University
P.O. Box 701
Garden City, NY 11530-0701

p - 516.877.4790

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