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2025–26 Season
Fall Semester
What is Mexican Freedom in the Age of Abolition?
September 16, 2025 7:00–8:30 pm ETMaría Esther Hammack (Assistant Professor of History, The Ohio State University)
Subjects: History Geography American History Mexican History Underground Railroad Enslaved Persons Abolitionism Mexico-United States Border
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Mexican Americans and Collective Memories of the US-Mexico War
September 23, 2025 7:00–8:30 pm ETOmar S. Valerio-Jiménez (Professor of History, The University of Texas at San Antonio)
Subjects: History Mexican Americans Civil Rights Memory War Citizenship
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The Victorian History of New Media
October 2, 2025 7:00–8:30 pm ETPaul Fyfe (NHC Fellow, 2018–19; Professor of English; Director, Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities, North Carolina State University)
Subjects: History Technology Literature Media Studies Nineteenth-Century Victorian Era Victorian Literature Digital Literacy
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Founding Partisans
October 7, 2025 7:00–8:30 pm ETH. W. Brands (Professor of History, The University of Texas at Austin)
Subjects: History Political Science Political Parties Federalist Party American Republican Party United States Constitution
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Feminist Methodologies and the Teaching of the Global Middle Ages
October 14, 2025 7:00–8:30 pm ETKim Klimek (Chair and Professor of History, Metropolitan State University of Denver)
Subjects: History Education Studies Feminist Theory Middle Ages Pedagogy Methodology Gender Roles Globalization
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On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice
November 6, 2025 7:00–8:30 pm ETRyan E. Emanuel (NHC Fellow, 2020–21; Associate Professor of Hydrology, North Carolina State University)
Subjects: History Environment and Nature Indigenous American History American History Climate Change Environmental Justice
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Agriculture as Folklife: Reclaiming Land, Seed, and Cultural Futures
November 11, 2025 7:00–8:30 pm ETPantaleon Florez, III (Ethnobotanist, Common Ground Program)
Subjects: Environment and Nature Economics Agriculture Food Culture
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The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told: Native America, the Supreme Court, and the US Constitution
November 20, 2025 7:00–8:30 pm ETKeith Richotte, Jr. (NHC Fellow, 2022–23; Director, Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program; Professor of Law, The University of Arizona)
Subjects: History Law United States Constitution Indigenous American History American History Race Legal History
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Spring Semester
Designing Care-Oriented Learning Spaces
January 15, 2026 7:00–8:30 pm ETKisha N. Daniels (Assistant Professor of the Practice of Education, Duke University)
Subjects: Education Studies Writing Instruction Learning Teaching Students
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The TeachRock Method: Arts-Integrated Pedagogical Approaches for History, Music and Critical Thinking
January 22, 2026 7:00–8:30 pm ETTriza Cox (Program Manager, TeachRock, Rock and Roll Forever Foundation)
Subjects: Education Studies Music History Creativity Pedagogy Rock and Roll Curriculum
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Challenging the Collective Memory Approach: Using Arab American Labor History to Expand US History Curricula
January 27, 2026 7:00–8:30 pm ETAkram Fouad Khater (NHC Fellow, 2005–06; Professor of History; Director, Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies, North Carolina State University)
Subjects: History Education Studies Arabs Labor History Curriculum Racism Collective Memory
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Restorative Digital Humanities: Oral Histories, Cultural Memory, and Justice-Centered Pedagogy
February 3, 2026 7:00–8:30 pm ETToniesha L. Taylor (Professor of Communication Studies; Director, Center for Africana Futures, Texas Southern University)
Subjects: History Humanities Technology Digital Humanities Curriculum Oral History African American Studies Interdisciplinarity Digital Pedagogy
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Slavery and Resistance in the Atlantic World
February 5, 2026 7:00–8:30 pm ETLuis Martinez-Fernandez (Pegasus Professor of History, University of Central Florida)
Subjects: History Education Studies Slavery Slave Resistance Slave Trade Caribbean History Law Culture
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The Legend of Wyatt Outlaw
February 19, 2026 7:00–8:30 pm ETBelle Boggs (NHC Fellow, 2024–25; Professor of English, North Carolina State University)
Subjects: History Education Studies African American History American History American South Reconstruction Era
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Nat Turner, Black Prophet
February 24, 2026 7:00–8:30 pm ETGregory P. Downs (Professor of History, University of California, Davis)
Subjects: History Education Studies Slavery Rebellions Prophecy
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Joyful Learning: Supporting All Students in the Inclusive Classroom
March 5, 2026 7:00–8:30 pm ETPaula Kluith, PhD (Owner/Consultant, Inclusion Rules LLC)
Subjects: Education Studies Inclusive Education Disability Studies Learning Students
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Translation, Migration, and Language Justice
March 12, 2026 7:00–8:30 pm ETIsabel C. Gómez (NHC Fellow, 2024–25; Associate Professor of Latin American/Iberian Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston)
Subjects: Linguistics Education Studies Translation Studies Migration Foreign Language Education
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Refugee Ecologies: Exploring Forced Displacement, the Environment, and American Literature
April 9, 2026 7:00–8:30 pm ETMarguerite Nguyen (NHC Fellow, 2023–24; Associate Professor of English, Wesleyan University)
Subjects: History Literature Environment and Nature Refugees American Literature Forced Displacement Culture Environment and Nature
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Shakespeare in Harlem
May 7, 2026 7:00–8:30 pm ETChiyuma Elliott (Professor of English, Case Western Reserve University)
Subjects: Literature History Art African American Art African American History Harlem Renaissance Poetry Plays
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