Department News & Announcements

Fall 2009

• The UMass Lowell chapter of Phi Alpha Theta will induct new members on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009, at 5 p.m. in Coburn Hall.
• King Richards' Fair Trip, October 12. Contact the History Department for more information. 
• We also are planning a History & Hockey nite for the game against BU on October 30. Contact the History Department for more information.
• In January, Michael Pierson's new book, "Mutiny at Fort Jackson: The Untold Story of the Fall of New Orleans," was published by the University of North Carolina Press. 
  

Spring 2009

• Caryn Cossé Bell’s documentary work, "Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans," is airing on WGBH/PBS, Channel 2, during Black History Month. The film was co-directed by Dawn Logsdon and Lolis Elie.  Professor Bell served as the documentary’s research director.  For a schedule of local and national broadcasts of the film, visit http://www.tremedoc.com.
• Christoph Strobel has an article in the Journal of Northwest Ohio History (Vol. 76, No. 1), "The Delaware Indians' Revolution: A Struggle for Sovereignty and Independence in the Tuscarawas and the Muskingum River Valley.”
• Mary Blewett recently published a book, The Yankee Yorkshireman: Migration Lived and Imagined, with the University of Illinois Press.
• Patrick Young has two articles, one in the Journal of Social History (Spring 2009), “Fashioning Heritage: Regional Costume and Tourism in Brittany, 1890-1937,” and another in French Historical Studies (Summer 2009), “A Tasteful Patrimony: Landscape Preservation and Tourism in the ŒSites and Monuments Campaign, 1900-1935.”