7:47 a.m., Feb. 17, 2009----The University of Delaware's Department of History has announced the schedule for spring History Workshops, which will meet in 203 Munroe Hall at 12:15 p.m. on Tuesdays.

Presentations begin at 12:30 pm and are followed by discussions ending at 1:45 p.m. sharp. Bring a lunch. All are welcome. For further information, call (302) 831-2371.

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Feb. 24 -- Peter Kolchin, Henry Clay Reed Professor of History, University of Delaware, “Emancipation in Comparative Perspective: The U.S. South and Russia.”

March 3 -- Margaret Garb, Washington University, St. Louis, “Nothing but Union Men: Black and White Workers' Alliance in the Industrial City-Chicago, 1890”

March 10 -- David Taylor, University of Roehampton (London), “Faith, Doubt and Belief in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Vernon Lushington and the Religion of Humanity.”

March 17 -- Paul E. Johnson, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of South Carolina, “Northern Horse: A Consideration of American Eclipse.”

March 25 -- Amy Kaplan, Edward W. Kane Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, “In the Name of Homeland Security.” Please note, this is a special Wednesday meeting of the History Workshop.

April 7 -- James Woodard, Montclair State University, “Retail Revolutions: U.S. Business and the Transnational Origins of Brazilian Consumer Culture.”

April 14 -- Chandra Manning, Georgetown University, “What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War.”

April 21 -- Suzanne Smith, George Mason University, “The African American Way of Death.”

April 28 -- Daniel Ussishkin, Newhouse Center for the Humanities, Wellesley College, “The Vigour that Citizenship in General Appears to Lack: Morale after the People's War.”

May 5 -- Janneken Smucker, University of Delaware, “A Good Amish Quilt Folded Like Money: Negotiating Value in the Country and the City.”