History

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  First "1619" History Event Draws Hundreds of Viewers

  In the first of four public forums in which Bowdoin historians analyze The New York Times Magazine initiative "The 1619 Project," Brian Purnell and Patrick Rael discussed the value of the project and the complicated links between the history of the US and contemporary race and racism.
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  History Department Will Lead Fall Series Based on The 1619 Project

  In 2019, on the 400-year anniversary of the date that the first slave ship arrived on the shores of America, The New York Times Magazine launched an ongoing initiative called The 1619 Project.
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  Bowdoin Educators Receive NEH Grant to Hold Holocaust Education Seminar

  History professor Page Herrlinger and art history research associate Natasha Goldman secure a six-figure federal grant to offer a seminar next summer for school teachers on “Teaching the Holocaust through Visual Culture.”

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