2024 Smith Lecture: today at 7 p.m. – A Tale of Two Slave Traders: Lincoln and the Destruction of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
The Department of History is pleased to welcome Jonathan W. White, Ph.D. a professor of American Studies at Christopher Newport University. He is the author or editor of 19 books, including his 2022 book A House Built By Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House, which was co-winner of the 2023 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize. One of his books published in 2023, Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade will be a springboard for the upcoming Smith Lecture.
The Lecture will take place today, Sept. 30, at 7 p.m. in the Benes Rooms AB in HWCC. This lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, please see https://www.owu.edu/academics/departments-programs/department-of-history/lectures-resource-links/ or email history@owu.edu.
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Contact: Deb Lovell at history@owu.edu