Feature Channels: History

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A University of Iowa law professor researches freedom suits, legal actions largely lost to history that were brought by slaves against their masters in hopes of gaining their freedom.

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“It’s foreign to our thinking that water wouldn’t simply come out of the pipes,” said John Broich, Case Western Reserve University historian. His new book London, Water and the Making of the Modern City (University of Pittsburgh Press), chronicles the struggles.

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Lauren Hackworth Petersen, an associate professor of art history at the University of Delaware, is exploring new approaches, drawing on literature, law, art and other material evidence, to bring the lives of Pompeii’s slaves out of the shadows.

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Coverage of the March on Washington anniversary by PBS and NBC News will include a documentary produced by an Ithaca College faculty member and interviews conducted by Ithaca College students.

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Hamilton College Professor of Government Philip Klinkner is the co-author of The Unsteady March: The Rise and Decline of America's Commitment to Racial Equality, which received the 2000 Horace Mann Bond Book Award from Harvard University’s Afro-American Studies Department and W.E.B DuBois Institute. In this opinion piece, Klinkner focuses on white America’s fears and need for social stability, rather than a commitment to higher moral ground, as the motivation for support of civil rights for black America.

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On August 28, citizens from across the country will converge on our nation’s capital to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. President Obama will honor the anniversary of the famous civil rights march by speaking from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, the same place that Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. Experts at Drexel University in Philadelphia are available to assist the news media with their coverage of the event and its implications from a variety of perspectives.

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UT English Professor confirms Shakespeare authored 325 additional lines in "The Spanish Tragedy."

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A gleaming wooden Adirondack guide boat, made from pine and cherry, and sporting original cane seats and graceful oars along with a history that dates to Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency, is again gliding through the waters of the Central Adirondacks where it was crafted at the turn of the 20th century. The Beaver returned to Newcomb this summer after an absence of more than 70 years.