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Servants not soldiers: Slavery in the U.S. Regular Army | Diagnosing the South: Pellagra, Public Health, and the Political Economy of the Cotton South

YOAV HAMDANI
Wilson Library Dissertation Research Fellowship

Talk:
Servants not soldiers: Slavery in the U.S. Regular Army

Yoav Hamdani is a PhD candidate at Columbia University History Department, where he studies violence, slavery and social and military history. His principal focus is the intersections between territorial expansion, slavery, Native-American removal, resistance, and military violence. His dissertation project reveals the history of slavery within the U.S. Army in the first decades of the American Republic.

DANA LANDRESS
Wilson Library Dissertation Research Fellowship

Talk:
Diagnosing the South: Pellagra, Public Health, and the Political Economy of the Cotton South

Dana Landress is a PhD Candidate in the History Department at the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation examines the relationship between pellagra and the political economy of cotton monoculture in the early twentieth-century South. Her dissertation explores how rural women developed early public health infrastructure by combatting deficiency diseases among sharecroppers and textile mill workers.
 

This informal program is part of the summer and fall Wilson Library Research Forum. Each program is an opportunity to hear from one or more fellows about research work that draws on the collections and expertise of the Wilson Special Collections Library. Please visit Wilson Library’s grants and fellowships page to learn more.

Date:
Thursday, October 17, 2019
Time:
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Location:
Fourth floor
Venue:
Wilson Library
Categories:
Lectures, Readings and Talks   Special Events  

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