Thursday, April 24th, 2014
5:30pm
Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall
194 Meeting Street
Free and Open to the Public
Author and historian Craig Steven Wilder returns to campus for this rescheduled lecture from February. A 2006 report commissioned by Brown University revealed that institution’s complex and contested involvement in slavery—setting off a controversy that leapt from the ivory tower to make headlines across the country. But Brown’s troubling past was far from unique. In Ebony and Ivy, Craig Steven Wilder, a rising star in the profession of history, lays bare uncomfortable truths about race, slavery, and the American academy.
