Tag: Historian

2020 Emerging Scholars: Dr. Kabria Baumgartner

When Dr. Kabria Baumgartner went to the University of Massachusetts Amherst to earn her Ph.D., she thought she was going to study 20th century African diasporic literature.

January 22, 2020

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Chicago Historian Timuel Black Turns 100

Timuel “Tim” D. Black, a Chicago historian who survived the Great Depression and worked on the front lines during World War II, turned 100 years old over the weekend. Black has lived in Chicago since he was an infant, growing up in a neighborhood that was then called the “Black Belt”, according to ABC7. Black’s […]

December 10, 2018

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