Dr. Claude Louishomme
associate professor of political science, 308.865.8629
America’s three “revolutions” are the focus of a Black History Month presentation Thursday, Feb. 24, on the University of Nebraska at Kearney campus.
Dr. Eric Burin, a history professor at the University of North Dakota, will give the presentation at 7 p.m. in Copeland Hall Room 140.
The talk, which is sponsored by the College of Natural and Social Sciences, is free and open to the public.
“Dr. Burin’s presentation will explore the ways in which African Americans advanced freedom during America’s three ‘revolutions’–the War for Independence, the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement,” said Dr. Claude Louishomme, director of the UNK Ethnic Studies Program.
Dr. Burin is the author of “Slavery and the Peculiar Solution: A History of the American Colonization Society,” which was a finalist for the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award. He later received a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to support work on his American Colonization Society Database, a project that was featured on PBS’s History Detective. Currently, he is working on a second book tentatively titled “Liberia and the Politics of Slavery.”
