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In the face of the Great Depression, democracy receded from many places around the world. Even in the United States, where commitments to democracy were of relatively long standing, many Americans in the 1930s openly admired the efficiency of…

The first regime of Brazil’s Getulio Vargas is often compared with other authoritarian regimes of the 1930s. In many ways, this makes perfect sense: between 1937 and 1945, Vargas abolished political parties and suspended civil liberties. He brooked…

During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Europe, Africa, and the Americas came together to create new societies and economies. Central to that new world history—perhaps the first true world history—was the institution of slavery, as slaves…

Digital Directions, a program jointly sponsored by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) and the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland, is a challenging summer seminar for high school students. Digital…

This workshop will focus on the twentieth-century U.S. Civil Rights movement from the perspective of women. We will consider competing definitions of leadership, class, race, and gender dynamics within the movement as well as the cultural dynamics of…

With the European conquest of 1519-1521, the highly diverse and indigenous peoples of Mexico were uniformly designated as Indian and relegated to separate and marginal status in a social hierarchy based upon blood, ethnicity, and class. This workshop…

The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), the Smithsonian Institution’s America’s Jazz Heritage Program (A Partnership of the Lila-Wallace Readers Digest Fund), and the Program in African American Culture of the National Museum…

This workshop focused on the experiences of both elite women and those peasant women who were transformed into the course of the early twentieth century. The long nineteenth century provided the background to this transformation, which reworked…

On February 9, 2002, Border's Books & Music, the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the African Diaspora, the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), and the Committee on Africa and the Americas presented The Langston…

Between 1890 and 1925, American women enjoyed great visibility in public life and helped to created institutions and public policies that shaped the lives of Americans for decades to come. This session will explore the vital participation of African…

Digital Directions, a program jointly sponsored by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) and the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland, is a challenging summer seminar for high school students. Digital…