Historian lectures on African American migrations

Date of Event: October 6, 2011

Posted: September 23, 2011

GRANVILLE, Ohio— Four key migrations that shaped African and African-American life in North America will be addressed in “The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations,” a lecture by author and historian Ira Berlin. The lecture will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 6, in Denison University’s Burton D. Morgan Center Lecture Hall (150 Ridge Road) and is co-sponsored by the Spectrum Series, Sharp Lecture Fund in American History, Department of History and the Center for Black Studies. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Marlaine Browning at browningm@denison.edu or visit www.denison.edu.

Berlin, a professor of history at the University of Maryland, has written extensively on American history and the larger world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly the history of slavery. His books include: “The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations” and “Generations of Captivity: A History of Slaves in the United States,” among others. He has been awarded numerous grants including those by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Denison University’s Spectrum Series 2011-2012 campus-wide theme, “Migrations” investigates the movement throughout history of humans and animals and also the transfer of culture by economic, social, geographic and political forces.

Calendar Listing:

CALENDAR LISTING: Denison University, Granville—Lecture: “The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations,” by historian Ira Berlin at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 6, in the Burton D. Morgan Center Lecture Hall (150 Ridge Road). Free and open to the public. For more information, contact Marlaine Browning at browningm@denison.edu or visit www.denison.edu.

About Denison:

Denison University, founded in 1831, is an independent, residential liberal arts institution located in Granville, Ohio. A highly selective college enrolling 2,100 full-time undergraduate students from all 50 states and dozens of foreign countries, Denison is a place where innovative faculty and motivated students collaborate in rigorous scholarship, civic engagement and the cultivation of independent thinking.

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