Welcome to the Charles Warren Center on-line. As Harvard's research center for North American history, our mission is to advance research and teaching in the broad range of American historical inquiry, and to serve as a nexus for the community of Americanists at Harvard and in the Boston area. The Warren Center has, over the forty-plus years of its existence, brought hundreds of postdoctoral fellows to Harvard, and awarded significant funds to generations of Harvard students, both undergraduate and graduate. The Center also hosts public lectures, organizes conferences and symposia, and sponsors the occasional publishing project (most recently, Yards and Gates: Women in History at Harvard and Radcliffe, 2004).

The theme of the Warren Center's 2008-09 post-doctoral and faculty fellowship is "Race-Making and Law-Making in the Long Civil Rights Movement." Convened by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (History, African and African American Studies) and Kenneth W. Mack (Law School), the program includes an associated graduate course, History 2460hf. Faculty, fellows, invited guests and graduate students will together rethink the conventional time period and actors of the movement for racial equality in America, focusing on discontinuities, disruptions, and ironies in the struggle for equal citizenship. Public sessions will include discussion of the fellows' pre-circulated works-in-progress. The Harvard and Boston-area scholarly community is warmly invited.

ANNOUNCEMENTS...
1. Environmental history panel on October 17th ...
2. Future fellowship on Empire, Sovereignty, Migration, Diaspora...

The Charles Warren Center
Emerson Hall 4th floor
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138

phone 617- 495-3591
fax 617-496-2111
cwc@fas.harvard.edu

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