New Event: Fossieck Lecture Wednesday

NEW EVENT

Department of History: Janice D. and Theodore H. Fossieck Lecture
April 23, 2014 12:30 PM
Science Library - Standish Room
Free and open to the public.

Featured speaker is Karolyn Smardz Frost who will discuss "Planting Slavery in Nova Scotia's Promised Land, 1759-1783." Frost's landmark biography of fugitive slaves Thornton and Luci Blackburn, I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad (2007) has won wide recognition and numerous prizes including Canada's top literary prize. Professor Frost is an archaeologist, historian, educator and award-winning author who specializes in the study of African American/Canadian transnationalism.  She holds a BA in Archaeology, a Master’s in Classical Studies and a PhD in the History of Race, Slavery and Imperialism.  She is the Senior Research Fellow for York University’s Harriet Tubman Institute.  She was appointed the Canadian Bicentennial Visiting Professor at Yale University for the 2012-2013 academic year.

More:  http://www.albany.edu/history/events.shtml

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Historical Fiction Writer Adam Braver Today

Adam Braver, award-winning author of novels that reimagine the Kennedy assassination, the Lincoln presidency, and the lives of Marilyn Monroe and Sarah Bernhardt, will present a free reading tonight in Saratoga.

Full schedule of free events here: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/sumread.html

About the Kennedy novel, November 22, 1963, Publisher's Weekly said, "With a captivating mix of fact and fiction, Braver chronicles the events surrounding JFK’s assassination to moving effect . . . While the accumulation of small moments gives the book its weightiness, the stories of people peripherally associated with the assassination make the book sing . . . Braver reveals the tragedy of a national story that decades later can still be acutely felt."

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