History Department – The Volante

Lecture teaches about the history of voting rights for Black women

March 20, 2021April 14, 2021 Allison Horkey0Tagged Constance Baker Motley, Diane Nash, Fannie Lou Hamer, gunderson lecture, History Department, Ida B. Wells, johns hopkins university, kamala harris, Knudson School of Law, martha jones, Mary Church Terrell, Mary McLeod Bethune, Sara Lampert, shell lecture, society of black alumni, Vanguard, vanguard voting rights lecture, Women's History Month

USD’s History Department and the Knudson School of Law hosted the Vanguard Voting Rights Lecture March 18. The lecture was a joint Shell Lecture, which the History Department usually hosts in the fall, and School of Law’s Gunderson Lecture, in honor of Women’s History Month. The lecturer, Martha Jones, a professor of history and the […]

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56th Student History Conference moves online this year

February 28, 2021April 26, 2021 Allison Horkey0Tagged Byzantine, Clayton Lehmann, History Department, Marie Liston, Student History Conference, University of Waterloo

The University of South Dakota’s Department of History and USD’s chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, the national honor society in history, hosted the 56th Annual Student History Conference Feb. 25. The conference was held over Zoom this year. The Student History Conference is an opportunity for students to present their papers written about the history […]

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