Laura Beers, associate professor of history, has won the Stansky Book Prize for her book, Red Ellen: The Life of Ellen Wilkinson, Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist (Harvard University Press, 2016).
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Stamped from the Beginning won the National Book Award.
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Founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture
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Here is a sampling of some of the inventive and even interdisciplinary ways students are learning across the College of Arts and Sciences.
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As President Donald J. Trump hits the hundred-day mark, we asked historians in the College of Arts and Sciences to weigh in on what they believe past presidents actually accomplished (or didn’t accomplish) during this period.
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Distinguished History Prof. Allan Lichtman predicted Donald Trump's victory. Now he has a new forecast about the American presidency.
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Documentarian and writer Stanley Nelson delivers the Gary Braithwaite Memorial Lecture.
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Kicking off a spring semester filled with art, music, and cultural dialogue, AU's Carmel Institute of Russian Culture and History hosted a screening of the 1966 Soviet Russian film Andrei Rublev at the Embassy of the Russian Federation on February 28.
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On February 23, students and faculty from American University and surrounding universities came together at AU’s Katzen Arts Center to hear Jelani Cobb speak
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