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COVID Through the Eyes of Historians: Anna Clark

COVID through the Eyes of Historians

University of Minnesota launches the "Immigrants in COVID America" project

COVID Through the Eyes of Historians: Patricia Lorcin

5 things you didn't know about the March on Washington and MLK's 'I Have a Dream' speech

COVID Through the Eyes of Historians: Erika Lee

Protesters in Kentucky wage hunger strike until officers who killed Breonna Taylor are fired: 'Our voices have been ignored'

Americans are the dangerous, disease-carrying foreigners now

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October 22, 2020

CMS Digital Talk: Hagith Sivan (History, University of Kansas )

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Our point of departure is a vignette from Midrash Lamentations Rabbah featuring repeated confrontations between the biblical patriarchs and God over salvation and restoration. Through this...

October 23, 2020

CEMH Digital Talk: Andrew Odlyzko (Mathematics, University of Minnesota)

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The South Sea Bubble of 1720 was a gigantic investment mania in Britain. It occurred in a post-truth environment of misinformation and disinformation, and featured a real plague. The...

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