History
Historian to speak at Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder Oct. 23 on protests against growing control by China.
The topic is timely and important, but discussions about it are mired in ideology and falsehoods, says William Wei, Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder and state historian.
Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder’s Elizabeth ‘Lil’ Fenn is one of 15 intellectuals nationwide to receive a Public Scholar award.
New maps of pre-colonial Africa provide context on the slaves who departed from the Bight of Benin
Scholars to use awards to support research of imperial legacy on standardized testing in the Middle East and adult adoptions and family formation in Japan.
Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies uses the unlikely story of Providence Canyon—and the 1930's contest over its origins and meaning—to recount the larger history of soil in America.
Never officially recognized during her lifetime, the first African American woman to graduate from the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ was posthumously honored this spring. Now, a biography telling the long-overlooked story of Lucile Berkeley Buchanan has been published.
Caroline Grego, who is pursuing her PhD in history at Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder, has won a prestigious fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.
When Stan Garnett (Hist’78) came to the Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder in the fall of 1974, he planned to study classics, then become an ordained Presbyterian minister. His time at Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ, however, would eventually yield a different path built on the great themes of civilization.
