News & Events

Faculty/graduate workshop (mini-conference) on "Manifesting Madness: Historical Interpretations of the Exceptional, the Marginal, and the 'Normal'. " Keynote address by Erik Midelfort (U of Virginia), ccommentators: William Monter (NU Emeritus) and Anne Harrington (Harvard). Full program on the CHS website.

Panel discussion on the future of history with Rajeev Kinra, Kate Masur, and Amy Stanley of the NU History Department Thursday, February 26 from 12:30 to 2 p.m., Hardin Hall (in Rebecca Crown Center, 633 Clark St.) -free and open to the public-light refreshments will be served

Celebration of the new biography--hot off the press!--of Dick Leopold, one of the greatest and most beloved professors at Northwestern University. The Center for Historical Studies at Northwestern University is hosting a reception and book-signing of Steven Harper's Straddling Two Worlds: The Jewish-American Journey of Professor Richard W. Leopold. Books will be available for purchase and signing at the reception. Straddling Worlds: The Jewish-American Journey of Professor Richard W. Leopold by Steven J. Harper (Northwestern University Press, January 2008) Author Steven Harper will discuss the book he wrote while spending Sunday mornings with his former professor for the final two years of the esteemed scholar's life. Georgie Anne Geyer: "We Americans today live too much in unhistorical bubbles, protected from the cleansing knowledge of time and man's history. And so, how greatly we need this well-written and evocative book about one of our greatest twentieth century teachers! Here, in the amazing and inspiring life of Richard Leopold, a man impassioned by excellence, we can see and feel one of the great and searching historic minds of our time--and grapple with our past anew. Personally, I am immensely comforted and inspired by this rare narrative of a man who never bent the truth." (Georgie Anne Geyer, syndicated columnist, Universal Press Syndicate, and author of Guerilla Prince and other books)