On November 25 Peter Guardino presented the paper “Los hombres, las mujeres, y las guerras: Acercándonos a las experiencias de la gente del siglo XIX”  in the Seminario Abierto de Discusión del Programa de Doctorado of the Universidad de San Andrés, in Buenos Aires, Argentina…via Zoom of course!

Alex Lichtenstein appeared on the Convict Leasing and Labor Project's video podcast '"History Exposed", where he spoke on "From Convict Leasing to Mass Incarceration.'

Stephen Macekura, Associate Professor of International Studies and Adjunct Associate Professor of History, published a new book, The Mismeasure of Progress: Economic Growth and its Critics, with the University of Chicago Press.

Mark Roseman gave the keynote lecture “The Rescue of History” at the (virtual) conference “New Approaches to the Rescue of Jews During the Holocaust”, the 8th International Conference of the Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies, Berlin-Brandenburg, November 23-25. 2020, viewable on YouTube at https://youtu.be/EXB_VVER9hI.

Carl Weinberg has received a $15,000 Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME) grant from the IU Office of the Vice Provost for Research. It will enable Cornell University Press to publish his book Red Dynamite: Creationism, Culture Wars, and Anticommunism in America (pub date: Oct. 2021) as a free, open-access download and a relatively low-cost paperback.