Nathan I. Huggins Lectures

The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures were established by friends and colleagues of Nathan I. Huggins, the distinguished historian and first occupant of the W. E. B. Du Bois Professorship at Harvard University. Professor Huggins served as Chair of the Department of African and African American Studies and as Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research until his untimely death in 1989. The purpose of this series is to bring distinguished scholars from this country or from abroad to deliver a series of three lectures focusing on topics related to African American history. The series is co-sponsored by the Harvard University Press, which publishes a book based on each Huggins lecture series.

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Previous Huggins Lectures include the following:

2013: Wilson J. Moses, Thomas Jefferson and the Notion of Liberty
2012: George Reid Andrews, Envisioning Afro-Latin America
2012: Allen C. Guelzo, Abraham Lincoln in 1862: The Year of Jubilee
2011: Charles J. Ogletree, Understanding Obama
2011: Tudor Parfitt, Fabricating Black Jews?
2010: Harold Holzer, Abraham Lincoln and the Hand of Freedom: Maxim and Monument, Memory and Myth
2009: Peter H. Wood, Into the Light: Liberating Winslow Homer’s ‘Near Andersonville’
2009: Neil Foley, Jim Crow Good Neighbors: The Failed Promise of Black-Brown Solidarity
2009: Paul Finkelman, The Supreme Court and the Peculiar Institution: Marshall, Story, Taney and the Defense of Slavery
2008: Richard Alba, Blurring the Color Line: Possibilities for Ethno-Racial Change in Early Twenty-first Century America
2007: Steven Hahn, The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom
2007: Darlene Clark Hine, Rehearsal for Freedom in Black Country: Three Women Performing Race, Class, Gender in South Carolina, 1870-1954
2004: Gary Nash, African Americans in the Age of Revolution
2004: Leon F. Litwack, Stormy Monday: Black Southerners in the Twentieth Century
2003: Robin D.G. Kelley, Speaking in Tongues: Jazz and Modern Africa
2002: David Brion Davis, Challenging Boundaries: A Macro, Micro, Macro View of American Slavery
2001: Waldo Martin, Black Liberation, Black Culture, and the Making of America: 1945-1980
1999: Thomas Holt, The Problem of Race in the 21st Century
1998: Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres, The Miner's Canary