Tag: Cambridge

Dr. Sarah Pearsall – Violence and Polygamy in Early America

March 8, 2018

The Department of History is hosting a talk by Dr. Sarah Pearsall, University Senior Lecturer in the History of Early America and the Atlantic World at Cambridge University, on “Violence and Polygamy in Early America.” The lecture will take place on Monday, March 26, from 4:30-6 PM in 30 ten Hoor Hall. This event is sponsored by the Department of History, the Charles G. Summersell Chair of Southern History, the Diversity Committee of the College of Arts & Sciences, and […]

Welcome to the Department, Dr. Kaufman!

November 7, 2017

The Department of History is glad to formally welcome Dr. Lucy Kaufman, who joined our faculty this fall, to the ten Hoor family. From childhood through high school, Dr. Kaufman’s father would tell her and her sister “three-minute history lessons” on the way to school in the morning, and it was because of this that she “fell in love with the great stories in history,” she says. Dr. Kaufman was a Renaissance Studies major as an undergraduate at Yale, but […]