{"id":122207,"date":"2024-09-30T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/?p=122207"},"modified":"2024-09-30T08:06:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T12:06:35","slug":"tonight-7-p-m-smith-lecture-hwcc-benes-rooms-ab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/tonight-7-p-m-smith-lecture-hwcc-benes-rooms-ab\/","title":{"rendered":"Today @ 7 p.m. – Smith Lecture, HWCC Benes Rooms AB"},"content":{"rendered":"

2024 Smith Lecture: today at 7 p.m. –\u00a0A Tale of Two Slave Traders: Lincoln and the Destruction of the Transatlantic Slave Trade<\/em><\/p>\n

The Department of History is pleased to welcome\u00a0Jonathan W. White, Ph.D.<\/a> 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<\/a><\/em>, which was co-winner of the 2023 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize. One of his books published in 2023,\u00a0 Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade<\/a><\/em> will be a springboard for the upcoming Smith Lecture.<\/p>\n

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\/<\/a>\u00a0or email\u00a0history@owu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

OWU Sponsoring Organization\/Office: History Department
\nContact: Deb Lovell at\u00a0history@owu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2024 Smith Lecture: today at 7 p.m. –\u00a0A Tale of Two Slave Traders: Lincoln and the Destruction of the Transatlantic Slave Trade The Department of History is pleased to welcome\u00a0Jonathan 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2057,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campuswide-news-events"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122207"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122669,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122207\/revisions\/122669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}