William & Mary Department of History

Today is the publication day of The Routledge Companion to Public Humanities Scholarship!

Lemon Project team members Drs. Jody Allen, Jajaun Johnson, and Sarah Thomas co-authored chapter 13, "Addressing Slavery and Its Legacies: One Model for Moving Forward."

We are so excited to share this work with you. We recommend requesting your local library to purchase the book, and please join us in this important conversation on public humanities.

https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Public-Humanities-Scholarship/Fisher-Livne-May-Curry/p/book/9781032163390

Pulitzer-winning historian named W&M’s Hunter B. Andrews Fellow Jon Meacham will give a public talk as part of his visit to campus.

Join us virtually for a Lemon's Legacies Porch Talk on April 2 at 1 pm ET. Register at https://cwm.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJckf-2hrDIiHdHDibM52fYttxZwA7OFVoQS.

This Lemon's Legacies Porch Talk will introduce a transformative dialogue on mental and emotional health in Black communities. Panelists will confront the critical need to expand mental health discourse and interventions beyond ingrained traditional coping mechanisms often steeped in religiosity and rooted in the Black church.

Generational traumas stemming from atrocities of slavery and systemic racism historically are shouldered in silence, with the Black church standing as the cornerstone for communal support. By interrogating the “Leave It on The Altar” mentality, we probe cultural nuances framing mental illness as weakness rather than legitimate health concern and labeling the pursuit and engagement of mental health support as lack of faith versus viable option. We intend to unravel the threads of religious grooming that weave through our experiences, foster an atmosphere of silent endurance, and exalt long-suffering.

In exploring experiences of family secrecy, internalized stigma, boundary resistance, toxic productivity and professional burnout, inadequate representation among mental healthcare professionals, and the dearth of cultural competence among non-Black providers, we illuminate ways newer generations firmly reject shame culture, advocate for autonomy, establish and enforce boundaries, and normalize seeking help. We propose adopting this repudiatory model toward a systemic overhaul and innovative reimagination of mental health services for Black people—one in which self-preservation is accepted and celebrated as new tradition, communal experience, and generational legacy.
Aligning with the objectives of the 14th Annual Lemon Project Spring Symposium, this panel proposes catalysts for change that uphold the sanctity of Black life and our intrinsic right to flourish.

It is One Tribe One Day and we are so grateful for all of your support.
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We invite you to join us for a talk by Nell Irvin Painter on December 5 at 5 pm in the Commonwealth Auditorium, Sadler Center at William & Mary. All are welcome! https://events.wm.edu/event/view/lemonproject/353550

Leading American historian Nell Irvin Painter is the author of many books, including Sojourner Truth, Creating Black Americans and The History of White People. In her 2018 book, Old in Art School, Painter recounts her journey from scholar to artist including her enrollment in the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design. There, she became a student again in her 60s and continues as a working, professional artist in her 80s. Painter will discuss the struggles in making a late-life pivot and the obstacles and biases she was up against as she pursued her dream of becoming an artist. Further, she will discuss the intersection of history and art making as it applies to her work and her upcoming essay collection, I Just Keep Talking (Doubleday, March 2024).

https://www.dailypress.com/2023/11/03/william-mary-takes-a-look-at-u-s-japan-relations-through-the-lens-of-baseball/

W&M takes a look at US-Japan relations through the lens of baseball William & Mary recently hosted a symposium looking at how baseball has played a role in U.S.-Japan relations for more than 100 years.

Practical magic: how research bewitched two Charles Center students Caroline Liebowitz ’24 and Isabel Pereira-Lopez ’24 wish to understand the unexplainable, to travel down the roads that make the rest of us shudder with fright. They are currently working on separate research projects focused on the historical past and present of witchcraft.

Fall 2023 Tack Faculty Lecture to recenter Native American narratives William & Mary anthropologist Danielle Moretti-Langholtz will give the lecture “Reconnecting Native Narratives to the Brafferton Indian School” on Nov. 14.

Join us on Friday, October 27th, for an afternoon of discussions about Baseball Diplomacy. This event is open to the public.

Can’t get enough of GSWS events? Us too! After stopping by Professor Meyer’s talk on Friday, get ready to attend Frank New’s lecture, “Doll Play Made Me Gay: Barbie’s Storied Past”, this coming Monday, October 23rd, at 5pm in Ewell 107!

Happy almost Homecoming! Current students and alumni alike are invited to attend Professor Meyer’s talk, “Searching for le****ns in all the wrong places”, this Friday at 4pm in Blow Hall 201!

Join us on Thursday, October 26th at 7:00 p.m. in Ewell Hall 107 for a screening of Koshein: Japan's Field of Dreams.

Colonial Williamsburg is hosting “I made this”: Black Artists & Artisans Conference on November 10 & 11. CW is pleased to offer a limited number of in-person and virtual scholarships for attending this conference. We invite you to join us for a dynamic conference exploring the lives and work of Black artists and artisans from the 18th to 20th centuries. Apply for a scholarship by Sept 30! tinyurl.com/blackartisans2023

Doctoral candidate at W&M scores big with women’s golf research Katie Boyce M.A. ’19 wasn’t big into golf, but then her dissertation changed her world.

Exciting work!

Play ball! W&M research team awarded grant to examine baseball’s impact on US-Japan relations Through scholarship and a series of events, a faculty-led research team aspires to bring attention to the U.S.-Japan baseball connection and its impact on the countries’ relations off the diamond.

Drumroll please…

Get excited for our Braithwaite lecturer Dr. Khubchandani/ LaWhore Vagistan come April 10th!

Join the communities of William & Mary, Williamsburg, and beyond as we come together to dedicate the soon-to-be installed vessel of Hearth: Memorial to the Enslaved. We will be sharing more information about the event in the coming days, but for now, please save the date and plan on coming out to Hearth on the evening of Saturday, April 1.

Join LGBTIQ+ Ukrainian activists Bogdan Globa and Dr. Maryna Shevtsova to discuss the state of the LGBTIQ+ Ukrainian community. This touring exhibition will also highlight portraits of LGBTIQ+ Ukrainian military service-members and humanitarian workers

At the 5:30 PM panel, Bogdan Globa and Dr. Maryna Shevtsova will discuss the state of LGBTIQ+ communities in Ukraine and the diaspora. Mr. Globa is the founder of QUA, the only organization devoted to serving the Ukrainian diaspora in the United States. He was the first openly q***r person to address the Ukrainian Parliament, and sought asylum in the United States after numerous threats to his life. Dr. Shevtsova is currently a EUTOPIA fellow at The University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her research interests and expertise include human rights, particularly the rights of LGBTQ+ people, gender equality, q***r migration, urban studies, space and sexuality, anti-gender movements in Europe, heteroactivism, and political homophobia.

The photo exhibition portion of this event is the third leg of a touring show organized by QUA - LGBTQ Ukrainians in America, in cooperation with the Ukrainian Union of the LGBT Military, and KyivPride. Portraits were taken by Crimean Tatar artist Alim Yakubov, and narratives were translated by Ukrainian scholar Dafna Rachok. Prior to William & Mary, this exhibition was hosted by the Taras Schevchenko National Museum in Kyiv, and by the Ukraine House and Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, DC. Photos will be on display from 12-8 the day of the exhibition in the Sadler Atrium.

https://flathatnews.com/2023/02/14/professor-fisher-leads-study-abroad-trip-to-new-zealand-remarks-on-previous-work-students-immersive-experience-with-maori-people/

Professor Fisher leads study-abroad trip to New Zealand; remarks on previous work, students’ immersive experience with Māori people Professor Andrew Fisher is an associate professor in the history department and has been working at the College of William and Mary since 2004. He specializes in teaching modern Native American his…

Webinar: Integrating Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Hydropower Reform This webinar features riparian and fisheries experts representing several U.S. tribes discussing how Traditional Ecological Knowledge can be in incorporated into riparian conservation and hydropower decision making.

Bray-Digges House, original home of the 18th-century Williamsburg Bray School, moves from W&M to Colonial Williamsburg Historic Area The historic structure will become a new and significant component of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation’s public history programming.

Check out Ph.D. Candidate Tyler Goldberg's recent article!

Unburying Franco and the Crimes of the Spanish Civil War | Essay For Six Decades, Spain Told a Dictator's Story. For the Past 22 Years, Citizens Have Been Creating a New Memory Landscape.

Dr. Peyman Jafari's work on the labor movement in Iran has significant implications for understanding the current uprisings there. See his contributions in the Washington Post today:

Why mass strikes could be a missing key to Iran’s uprising Labor disruptions on a level that could add exponential weight to Iran's protest movement remain difficult to envision, activists and analysts say.

Oh, the places you can go!

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Congratulations to History Club for winning a Values in Action award!

W&M recognizes students, staff personifying Values in Action This fall’s faculty and staff award recipients are Sherri Donson, manager of Law Café at W&M Law School, and Blanca Tyler ’09, administrative and language house coordinator for modern languages & literatures.

Check out this exciting project spearheaded by Professor Meyer.

W&M Berks – Berkshire Conference for Women Historians – The College of William & Mary Affiliate Chapter About Us The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, founded in 1930, began as the Lakeville History Group in order to rectify the exclusion of women from the comradery and networking opportunities of the profession which often occurred in private men’s clubs and retreats. While the American His...