{"id":309,"date":"2018-10-01T13:11:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T13:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awf.middcreate.net\/?p=309"},"modified":"2018-10-01T13:11:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T13:11:19","slug":"keynote-william-b-hart-the-past-as-the-small-and-the-mighty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaeljkramer.net\/awf\/discussion\/keynote-william-b-hart-the-past-as-the-small-and-the-mighty\/","title":{"rendered":"Keynote: William B. Hart, The Past as the Small and the Mighty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keynote<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Past as the Small and the Mighty: One American Historian\u2019s Perspective on Atlantic-World History<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr.\u00a0William B. Hart<\/a>, History Department, Middlebury College\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

American historians have begun to merge two seemingly disparate approaches to the study of the American past: \u201cmicrohistory,\u201d the study of seemingly \u201csmall\u201d things \u2013 e.g., an individual, a community, an event \u2013 intended to probe and illuminate to great detail not just the entity under study but also larger historical forces that impacted that entity; and \u201cAtlantic-world history,\u201d the study of \u201cmighty\u201d spatial, geographical, and temporal currents that reveal historical processes on a near global scale.\u00a0 This talk, focused on the American Colonization Society, a nineteenth-century reactionary reform movement that involved racially purifying American society, will show that we cannot fully understand colonization without adopting both microhistorical and Atlantic-world perspectives.\u00a0 The former reveals local attitudes toward race, nation, and identity, informed by Africa\u2019s persistently haunting hold on the white American imagination.<\/p>\n

Bio:<\/p>\n

Prof. Bill Hart earned his PhD in American Civilization at Brown University and has been a faculty member of the History Department at Middlebury College since 1993.\u00a0 Prof. Hart’s scholarly specialization is race, religion, and identity on the American frontier, with a special emphasis on Indian-Black relations. Over the years, he has taught a broad range of history courses, from “The Atlantic World, 1400 \u2013 1900,” “Revolutionary America,” and “African-American History.” In Spring 2015, Prof. Hart curated the photo exhibition, \u201cMany Thousand Gone: Portraits of the African-American Experience, 1840\u20131968,\u201d at the Middlebury College Museum of Art. He has also held a number of fellowships, including most recently a Friends\u2019 of the Princeton Library Research Grant (2016).\u00a0 Prof. Hart has also been an on-camera spokesperson and adviser for a number of documentaries, including “Black Indians: An American Story” (2001), and the PBS series, “The War that Made America” (2006). He is currently writing a biography of Martin Freeman, the second black graduate of Middlebury College (1849), who became the first black college president in the nation (Avery College, Pittsburgh, PA, 1856\u20131863), and a faculty member at and President of Liberia College (1889), Monrovia, Liberia.<\/p>\n

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Keynote The Past as the Small and the Mighty: One American Historian\u2019s Perspective on Atlantic-World History Dr.\u00a0William B. Hart, History Department, Middlebury College American historians have begun to merge two seemingly disparate approaches to the study of the American past: \u201cmicrohistory,\u201d the study of seemingly \u201csmall\u201d things \u2013 e.g., an individual, a community, an event […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaeljkramer.net\/awf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaeljkramer.net\/awf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaeljkramer.net\/awf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaeljkramer.net\/awf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaeljkramer.net\/awf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaeljkramer.net\/awf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaeljkramer.net\/awf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaeljkramer.net\/awf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaeljkramer.net\/awf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}