History
Never officially recognized during her lifetime, the first African American woman to graduate from the University of Colorado 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 91´«Ã½, has won a prestigious fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.
When Stan Garnett (Hist’78) came to the 91´«Ã½ in the fall of 1974, he planned to study classics, then become an ordained Presbyterian minister. His time at CU, however, would eventually yield a different path built on the great themes of civilization.
Award-winning book explores parallel lives of two soldiers, martyr Nathan Hale and traitor Moses Dunbar.
The Friends of the 91´«Ã½ Libraries invite you to their Spring Treasures event, A Century of Views of Colorado: 1820-1920, March 8, 5:30 p.m. in Benson Earth Sciences.
Henry Lovejoy, assistant professor of history at the University of Colorado Boulder, has been named the new director of slaveryimages.org.
A panel discussion titled “Trump’s America: One Year Later†is scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 24, at 5:30 p.m. in Hale Science Room 270
David Shneer is hoping to arrange a half-dozen hookups on the University of Colorado Boulder campus next year — in a way that’s never been done before. The goal is to boost scholars’ creativity and to boost artists’ depth.
The award will be available to anyone who teaches at the university, whether a full professor, a student teacher, a graduate assistant or an adjunct professor.
A series of participatory forums looking back at American racism by the University of Colorado Boulder’s History Department is proving to be a very popular campus learning experience, with organizers working on the fly make sure as many interested people as possible can attend.