Chad Williams will give a talk on the wartime experience of African American soldiers in World War I and the rise of the New Negro as part of The U.S. in the First World War, a lecture series commemorating the centennial of the entrance of the United States into World War I, sponsored by the department of history and the Willson Center.

Chad Williams is associate professor of African and Afro-American studies at Brandeis University. He is the author of Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era.

Lynn Dumenil will give a talk on “Modern American Women and World War I” as part of The U.S. in the First World War, a lecture series commemorating the centennial of the entrance of the United States into World War I, sponsored by the department of history and the Willson Center.

Nationally Touring Exhibit Visits Russell Library

Faculty and graduate students only. "Agro-ecology of the Early State”

Faculty and graduate students only. "Backwater: Making Space for Slavery in the Red River Valley"

Faculty and graduate students only.“Who Moved My Beef! Economic Rights, Religious Rites and the Politics of Cows in Modern India”

"Technology and World Hunger: A Comparison of the Role of Technology in Four Global Food Crises"

"Producing farmers, consuming expertise: Land grant colleges and shale gas commodification"

“Nitrates and 'Hell': The Apocalypse of 1866, Cheap American Wheat, and the End of European Hegemony”

“Stirring Things Up All Over the South’: The Politics of Race, Gender and Hunger from a Comparative Perspective”