Professor Janette Thomas Greenwood of the History Department was a Special Lecturer at Tsurumi University, Yokohama, Japan, from September 28 through October 2, as part of its International Exchange program. She gave two lectures, “‘A Dream Deferred’: The African American Struggle for Equality After the Civil War” and “‘To Know the Heart and Mind of America’:…
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Alumna from Preservation Worcester to give talk on ‘Clark’s Vanished Buildings’
Wednesday, April 24 at 5:30 p.m. Bassett Admissions Center As Clark University grew during the late-19th-mid-20th century era, a number of Main South dwellings and other buildings were taken over for university use. Over time, these buildings were replaced by purpose-built buildings, and now have been largely forgotten. Learn about these now-vanished landmarks in an…
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Documentary on the northern role in slave trade to be shown Wednesday 3/27
The Emmy-nominated documentary, Traces of the Trade: A Story of the Deep North, will be shown at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 27 in Jefferson 218. The film tells the story of nine descendants of Rhode Island’s James DeWolf, the nation’s leading slave trader, as they retrace the Triangle Trade and uncover both their family’s…
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History students to present research about baseball in Worcester: ‘The Manly Pastime’
On Thursday, May 3 at noon, students from Professor Greenwood’s Baseball in the Blackstone Valley Seminar will present “The Manly Pastime”: Early Baseball in Worcester, 1859-1879, at the Worcester Historical Museum. Uncovering the fascinating beginnings of baseball in Worcester — from its first amateur clubs in the late 1850s to its first professional team in 1879…
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Prof. Greenwood is co-author of innovative U.S. history textbook
Professor Janette Greenwood is a co-author of American Horizons: US History in a Global Context, which was recently published by Oxford University Press. The book is the only U.S. History survey text to integrate fully U.S. history in a global context, and has been praised by a reviewer as “an exceptional book for instructors wishing to…
