Francoise Hamlin – Ours is a Hell of a Story: Civil Rights at the Crossroads (2/1/11) from CSAS on Vimeo. Françoise Hamlin’s lecture is on the black freedom struggle in Mississippi through the lens of a local fifty-year study in … Read more

Kevin Boyle, History Redemption: Civil Rights, History and the Promise of America (1/18/11) from CSAS on Vimeo. Professor Boyle teaches twentieth century American history, with an emphasis on class, race, and politics at Ohio State University. He has received OSU’s … Read more

For the past four years Harbage Page has photographed the possessions left behind by immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexican Border near Brownsville, Texas and Matamoros, Mexico. Immigrants swim across the Rio Grande and then quickly change from wet clothes into dry … Read more

APRIL 6, 2011 PLEASANTS FAMILY ROOM AT WILSON LIBRARY 6 P.M.

Isabel Wilkerson, former national correspondent and bureau chief at The New York Times and the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for journalism, will discuss her new book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great … Read more