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History

'Black Panther'
Commentary
'Black Panther' taps centuries of dreams
Published Feb 16, 2018
Historian N.D.B. Connolly explores the historical inspirations, both real and imagined, for the film's fictional world of Wakanda / The Hollywood Reporter
Frederick Douglass
History project
Mapping Frederick Douglass
Published Nov 27, 2017
Students in Johns Hopkins graduate seminar research, visit regional sites of significance in young slave's life
Lawrence Jackson
Historian homecoming
Lawrence Jackson named BDP
Published Feb 6, 2017
Historian, author bridges English, History departments and Center for Africana Studies
Co-hosts of 'BackStory' (from left) N.D.B. Connolly, Brian Balogh, Ed Ayers, and Joanne Freeman.
Connolly on air
Published Dec 16, 2016
JHU historian to co-host 'BackStory with the American History Guys' radio program beginning Feb. 3
Faculty honors
Historian wins book award
Published Oct 4, 2016
N.D.B. Connolly receives Bennett H. Wall Award from Southern Historical Association
Black and white photo shows young soldiers in training lounging in their barracks
Retrospective
Hopkins and WWI
Published Sept 14, 2016
Exhibit digs into university archives to explore impact of 'The Great War' at home and abroad
Early music
Musical melting pot
Published March 1, 2016
Peabody Consort presents a snapshot of 13th-century Christian, Jewish, Arabic music
A complex history
Published Feb 19, 2016
Historian Philip Morgan discusses lives of slaves at George Washington's Mount Vernon
Two tanks in the fog
History
Hitler's last gamble
Published Nov 12, 2015
Military historian Antony Beevor details one of WWII's bloodiest battles, the Battle of the Bulge
A different world
Unified Germany, 25 years later
Published Oct 1, 2015
AICGS publishes commentary from scholars, experts on 25th anniversary of Germany's reunification