A Note From the Chair, Department of History

Dr. Arwin D. Smallwood

The 2nd Annual Gibbs Confer-ence and Lecture are events hosted by the History Scholars and the Department of History. This lecture and conference forms the core of student pro-fessionalism and learning within the history department at North Carolina A & T State University. Students, faculty and members of the Greens-boro community who partici-pate in this annual event have demonstrated a commitment to a life of teaching and learn-ing of history through lectures, seminars and conferences such as this one. They are

2014-2015 Volume 2, No. 1

THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY NEWSLETTER

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

The Department of History Newsletter

The Second Annual Gibbs Conference & Lecture

Theme: Engaging Communities

Sponsored by: The History Scholars, Lyceum, NC A&T Middle College, The Department of History, The College of Arts & Sciences, and The Office of Student Affairs

also committed to involvement in innovative research, teaching and community service as well as collaborative research which results in service learning. The primary goals of this annual event are to foster student and community learning as well as to cultivate intellectual curiosity among high school, community college and undergraduate stu-dents. We also seek to prepare this generation of students to be scholars by developing their skills in written and oral commu-nication, as well as reasoning,

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Inside this Issue

A Note From the Chair 1

2015 Gibbs Lecture 2

The Greensboro His-torical Museum

3

Faculty Accomplish-ments

5

Students Activities 9

The 2015 Hist. Dept. Scholarship Awards

13

Alumni News 14

Announcements 19

Contact Us 25

To Our Donors 25

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Dowdy Administration Building

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critical thinking, intercultural and global awareness, and scholarly research. By helping create an understanding of the past, we seek to inspire informed and

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engaged students and citizens. Therefore we welcome you to the 2nd Annual Gibbs Conference and Lecture and hope you Professor and Chair find it rewarding and

informative and leave with a commitment to a “Life of Learning.”

Sincerely,

Arwin D. Smallwood, Ph.D.

The 2015 Gibbs keynote address was delivered by Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries, an Associate Pro-fessor of History at the Ohio State University. His work explores political and class mobilization among working class African Americans. In 2009, Dr. Jeffries published Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt (NYU Press), which tells the remarkable story of the ordinary peo-ple and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizers who ushered in the Black Power era by transforming rural Lowndes County, Alabama from a citadel of violent white supremacy into the center of southern militan-cy. They achieved this ex-traordinary feat by creating the Lowndes County Free-dom Organization, the orig-inal Black Panther Party.

His current book project, entitled Stealing Home: Ebbets Field and Black Working Class Life in Post-Civil Rights New York, explores the struggle of working class African Americans to secure and enjoy their freedom rights, from the height of the civil rights era through the pre-sent, by examining the experiences of the residents of Ebbets Field Apartments, an expansive, 1,200 unit, affordable housing complex built in 1962 on the site of old Ebbets Field, the former home of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

The 2015 Gibbs Keynote Lecture by

Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries Congratulations to Dr.

James Wood for his promo-tion to the rank of full Profes-

sor of History in 2014. The Department of History appreciates your hard work, contributions to knowledge, and the intel-lectual development of our students.

Congratulations to Dr.

Galen Foresman for his promo-tion to the rank of Asso-ciate Pro-fessor of Philoso-phy in

2014. The Department of History appreciates your hard work, contributions to knowledge, and the intel-lectual development of our students.

Congratulations

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The History Scholars Department of History

NC A&T State University

The purpose of the History Scholars is to provide a place for history majors and minors to engage in discourse about the field, and to generate an idea and purpose of what it is to be a history student. Further, the organization’s purpose is to reach and inform fellow history students, and to provide guid-ance for successful study, completion of curricula, and entry into fields for which this discipline serves as a foundation.

Dr. Dwana Waugh, History Scholars Faculty Advisor

Foundation Collection of the Indiana State Museum). The Lincoln Financial Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Lincoln Financial Group, arranged for this rare document and other Lincoln artifacts and including an ink-well used by the president and Matthew Brady images from the Lincoln family albums to be loaned to the Greensboro Historical Mu-seum.

The signing of the Emancipation Proclama-tion was a major step toward the abolition of slavery, and helped to renew this nation's founding philosophy of human liberty. “This exhibit invites visitors to ponder America’s founding principles, Lincoln’s hope for free-dom for all and the experience of African Americans in our community,” says Carol Ghiorsi Hart, the Greensboro Historical Mu-seum director.

A recently discovered New York State Muse-um audio recording of Dr. Martin Luther King’s speech commemorating the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation was also part of Greensboro's exhibition, which was free and open to the public. April 2015 marked the 150th (sesquicentennial) anniver-sary of the end of the Civil War. (Con’t. on p. 4)

City News: The Greensboro Historical Museum

Dr. Paul Escott of Wake Forest, Dr. Mark Elliott of UNCG and Dr. Arwin Smallwood of N. C. A&T

On Saturday, March 28, 2015 the Greensboro His-torical Museum opened its new exhibits on "Emancipation Proclamation: Voices to Freedom." Visitors were guided through Greensboro’s history that includes powerful stories of 300 years of Afri-can American experience in seeking liberty and freedom. The highlight of this four-week exhibition was a display of Leland-Boker 1864 edition of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln (on loan from the Lincoln

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On January 1, 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation which declared that within those territories in ac-tive rebellion “all persons held as slaves shall be...forever free." On Thursday, April 16 was a discussion panel consisting of Dr. Arwin Small-wood, Professor and Chair of NC A&T State Uni-versity's History Department; Dr. Paul Escott, Reynolds Professor, Wake Forest University's History Department; and Dr. Mark Elliott, Associ-ate Professor, UNC Greensboro History Depart-ment. In their discussion they examined “The Many Meanings of the Emancipation Proclama-tion.” The exhibit went through April 26, 2015.

In addition to history courses, we offer courses

in philosophy and geography.

Olen Cole, Jr., Professor Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill African American History, US Diplomatic History coleo@ncat.edu Mike Cundall, Assistant Professor and Director of the Honors Program Ph.D., University of Cincinnati Philosophy of Psychology and Cognitive Science mcundall@ncat.edu Fuabeh P. Fonge, Professor Ph.D., Howard University African History, World History fpfonge@ncat.edu Galen A. Foresman, Associate Professor Ph.D., Bowling Green State University Ethics, Applied Ethics, and Axiology gaforesm@ncat.edu Karen L. Hornsby, Associate Professor Ph.D., Bowling Green State University Applied Ethic, Political Philosophy klhornsb@ncat.edu Conchita Ndege, Professor Ph.D., Howard University African Studies, Museum Studies ndegec@ncat.edu Thomas E. Porter, Professor Ph.D., University of Washington Russian History, Modern European History portert@ncat.edu

The Faculty

Michael J. Roberto, Associate Professor Ph.D., Boston College Contemporary World History, History of Socialism robertom@ncat.edu Philip F. Rubio, Associate Professor Ph.D., Duke University Twentieth-Century U.S. History and African-American History pfrubio@ncat.edu Arwin D. Smallwood, Professor and Dept. Chair Ph.D., The Ohio State University African-American, Native-American, and Early Ameri-can History asmallwo@ncat.edu Dwana Waugh, Assistant Professor of History and Coordinator for the History Education and MAT Programs Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Twentieth-Century U.S. History and History of Educa-tion dlwaugh@ncat.edu James A. Wood, Professor Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Latin American History and Modern World History

woodj@ncat.edu Yunqui Zhang, Associate Professor and Associ-ate Chair Ph.D., University of Toronto Chinese and East Asian History

yzhang@ncat.edu

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Dr. Olen Cole, Jr., Professor of History, pre-

sented a paper at the Annual Meeting of the Virginia Social Science Association in Rich-mond, Virginia on June 18, 2014. The paper, "African-American Youth in the Program of the Civilian Conservation Corps in Virginia, 1933-

1942", closely examines the experience of African-American youth in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), one of the most popular programs in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. This year, Dr. Cole has continued his re-search on the Civilian Conservation Corps for planned articles.

Dr. Fuabeh Fonge, Professor of History, had his article on “Historicizing the African Foundations of Major World Religions” published by a U.K. based International Journal of Science, Commerce and Humanities, Volume 3, No.1 in January 2015. He also published another arti-cle on “Conceptualizing the Trajectories and Proselyti-zation of Islam in Africa” in

the International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Volume 5, No. 3 in March 2015. In spring 2015. Dr. Fonge attended the annual con-ference of the North Carolina Association of Histo-rians at Fayetteville Technical Community Col-lege, Fayetteville, North Carolina on March 27-28, 2015 and presented a paper on “The Boko Haram Jihadist Movement in West Africa and the Inter-nationalization of World Terrorism.” Dr. Fonge, as editor-in-chief of the Journal of International Stud-ies and Development, also edited volume 5 of the journal in which he reviewed the book Came-roonian Immigrants in the United States: Between the Homeland and the Diaspora by Professor Jo-seph Takougang of the University of Cincinnati.

In March 2015, Dr. Conchita Ndege, Professor of History, presented a paper on “The Role of HBCUs in Democracy and Civil Right in Ameri-ca” at the annual meet-ing of North Carolina Association of Histori-ans at Fayetteville Technical Community College. She also at-tended a GIS Workshop in Raleigh on February 25, 2015 and in early

February and she gave a lecture titled “The Harlem Renaissance and Traditional African Cultural Influences” at Xavier University. In September 2014, Dr. Ndege delivered another paper at the Association for the Study of Afri-can American Life and History (ASALH) Con-vention in Memphis, Tennessee. She also at-tended the annual Peace Corps Association Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Back home at NC A&T State University, Dr. Ndege participated in a Text-in-Community panel on I am Malala and was a College of Arts and Sci-ences panelist on “Pan- Africana Studies in Education” organized by the English Depart-ment.

During the 2014-15 academic year Dr. Thomas Porter saw two articles published in Rus-sian journals. One, Sotzialisticheskie I politicheskie izmenii v derevne vo vremia pervoi mirovoi voin-in appeared in KLIO, the main Rus-

sian historical journal, and the other “Prince Georgii Lvov, the Zemstvo and the Failure of Russian Liberalism” appeared in Mezhdu-narodnyi nauchno-issledovatel’nyi zhurnal. He also was contracted to write a political biography of Prince Georgii Lvov for Row-man & Littlefield. He presented a paper at

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UNC Chapel Hill’s “Carolina Seminar” on “The Soviet Campaign for an International War Crimes Trial” which will appear in an anthology about post World War II war crimes trials published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. He also pre-sented another paper entitled “In Defense of Peace, Aron Trainin and International Justice” and it has been accepted for presentation this fall at the major annual conference in his field, the Association for Slavic, East European and Eura-sian Studies,

Dr. Michael Joseph Roberto, Associate Pro-

fessor of History, published two articles in 2014:

“Crisis, Recovery, and the

Transitional Economy: the

Struggle for Cooperative

Ownership in Greensboro,

North Carolina,” Monthly

Review, Vol. 66, No. 1

(May 2014), 50-60, and;

“Capitalist Crisis, Cooper-

ative Labor, and the Con-

quest of Political Power:

Marx’s ‘Inaugural Ad-

dress’ (1864) and Its Relevance in the Current

Moment,” Socialism and Democracy, Vol. 28, No.

2 (July 2014), 83-106. He is currently completing

a book-length manuscript on the genesis of

American fascism in the interwar period. In addi-

tion to the courses he regularly offers in world

history, Roberto taught the history of capitalism in

the university’s Honors Program in the fall 2014

semester. He is the department’s representative

to the university’s Faculty Senate and is also ac-

tive in the community as a member of Citizens for

Environmental and Economic Justice and the Re-

naissance Community Cooperative.

Dr. Philip F. Rubio, Associate Professor of History, won a scholarship from the Smithsonian In-stitution National Postal Museum to conduct re-search in 2015 in Wash-ington, D.C., on his latest book project on the U.S. Postal Service and its un-ions from the 1970 nation-wide postal wildcat strike to the present crisis. Dr.

Rubio also organized panels of historians at two different annual conferences, the first of which has already been approved, and the second is still pending. For both conferences he has also written papers to present on various aspects of the 1970 postal strike. The first panel will be in May 2015 in Washington, D.C., at the joint con-ference of the Labor and Working Class History Association/Working-Class Studies Associa-tion. The panel there will be examining the histor-ical roots of the current USPS crisis. The second panel will be in April 2016 at the Organization of American Historians in Providence, Rhode Island, and looks at prominent examples of working-class grassroots leadership across North America in the 20th century. On March 11, 2015, Dr. Ru-bio will deliver a slide-show lecture discussing black postal worker history at the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh. The presentation will be based on his 2010 book There's Always Work at the Post Office. In addition to research-ing and writing on postal labor history, Dr. Rubio is also studying the 1862 Black Brigade of Cincin-nati, the anticommunist "red scare" in Ohio in the 1950s, and black-led college student protests in North Carolina in the early 21st century.

Dr. James A. Wood, Professor of History, has been selected by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board to receive a 2015-2016 US Scholar Program award to Chile. Dr. Wood will serve as a visiting pro-fessor at the

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Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile during the spring 2016 semester. He will con-duct research for his new book and teach a course in the History of Political Ideas in Chile Program at the university. In other news, Dr. Wood was promoted to Professor in 2014. In addition, he presented a paper and chaired a teaching panel at the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies annual meeting at Tulane University in March, 2014. Also, he submitted a chapter to a forthcoming anthology on Chile's nineteenth-century history called Re-pensar la Independencia Chilena (Rethinking Chilean Independence) to be published in Chile in 2015. The chapter was translated by Dr. Wood's friend and A&T colleague Dr. Jose Alberto Bravo de Rueda of the Department of Liberal Studies.

Dr. Karen Hornsby, an Associate Professor of Philosophy at North Carolina A&T State

University was named the 2014 North Carolina Pro-fessor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). During her elev-

en years of teaching at N.C. A&T she has demonstrated a rare passion for working with undergraduate students both inside and out-side the classroom and is the university’s first recipient of this honor. She also currently serves as the co-chairwoman for the General Education Council and the Wabash-Provost Scholars as well as the pre-law coordinator for liberal studies. In 2014, Hornsby, along with winners from other states and the four national winners were invited to Washington, D.C. for an awards luncheon at the National Press Club as well as a congressional reception. CASE and the Carnegie Foundation have partnered to offer the U.S. Professors of the Year awards program since 1981.

Last summer, Dr. Dwana Waugh received a National En-dowment for the Humani-ties (NEH) Summer Insti-tute grant en-titled “Finding Mississippi in the National Civil Rights Narra-tive: Struggle, Institution Building, and Power at the Local Lev-el.” The sum-mer institute was held at

Jackson State University. Along with other participants, Dwana engaged in thought-provoking discussions and lectures led by vet-eran civil rights activists and scholars and trav-eled to prominent historic sites, such as the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis and Fannie Lou Hamer’s home in Ruleville, Missis-sippi.

In the past year, Dwana has given historical presentations to Guilford County School’s sec-ondary social studies teachers, as well as to the community organization, the Queens of Empowerment at Dudley High School. Dwana presented her content pedagogical sessions at the North Carolina Council for the Social Stud-ies in February 2015, exploring the use of his-torical inquiry though history laboratories and role-play simulations. Dwana also participated in a national and regional conference this aca-demic year at the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) and the Virginia Forum respectively. At both conferences, Dwana presented her current re-search on the impact of memory and race on politics and educational policy in Virginia and North Carolina. (Continued on p. 8)

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In spring 2015, the History Scholars took a field trip to Washington, D.C. sponsored by the history department and Dean Goldie Byrd. Students vis-ited the Washington Monument, the World War II

Memorial, the Korean War Memorial, Lincoln Me-morial, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial. They also visited several Smithsonian museums, as well as the United States Memorial Holocaust Museum. Upon reflection on the trip, students found immense value in the field trip. One stu-dent viewed the trip as a way to contextualize and humanize the content he learned in classes. Other students commented on the inspirational and transformational impact of viewing historical monuments and museums. After seeing the Mar-tin Luther King Memorial, one student noted how King “motivates me to do something with my life.” Another student expressed her conviction to fight for justice after touring the Holocaust Museum, stating that a quotation posted charged her “keeping in mind that when we see something wrong, we need to speak on it.”

Ms. Carolyn Ruff Retires

We do not solve

our problems by

striving to forget

that they exist.

Ms. Carolyn Ruff, our Administrative Sup-

port Associate, retired on January 31, 2015

after putting in 34 years of service at NC

A&T State University. Best wishes from the

Department of History.

Ms. Constance F. Booker, Interim

Administrative Support Associate

Ms. Constance F. Booker joined our Depart-ment in January 2015 as our Interim Admin-istrative Support Associate. Prior to her posi-tion at NC A&T, Ms. Booker worked at Rutgers University for over 10 years as an executive assistant to the Vice Chancellor of Finance and Administration.

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Student Activities

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Monica Bumbrey, President and Majonica Haithcox, Vice President

Kayla Forney, Program Host Capri Barksdale, Secretary

Trevor Ventus, Co-Treasurer Namede Bennet, Co-Treasurer

Kachè Greene, Parliamentarian Raeven Chatman, Publicity Chair

Officers of the History Scholars

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The History Scholars

Dept. of History’s website: http://www.ncat.edu/academics/schools-colleges1/cas/academic-departments/history/index.html

At the 2015 Gibbs Lectures

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Mission Statement

We are a professional society whose mission is to promote the study of history through the encouragement of research, good teaching, publication and the exchange of learning and ideas among historians. We seek to bring students and teachers together for intellectual and social exchanges, which promote and assist historical research and publication by our members in a variety of ways.

The 2015 Initiates

●Monica Bumbrey ●Raeven Chatman ●Dejah Denbrook ●Sade Mack ●Francisco Martinez ●Nana Opoku ●Trevor Ventus Graduating Members

●Sade Mack ●Nana Opoku ●Trevor Ventus

History is a subject that embraces everything. It is a discipline that clari-fies, fosters, completes and enrich the study of all other disciplines.

At the 2015 Annual Meeting of North Carolina As-sociation of Historians (NCAH), thee students from the History Department at NC A&T State Univer-sity made the following presentations:

—Brenton Murphy, “Children of a Lesser God: The Secular Faiths of Hitler and Stalin.”

—Namede Bennett, “For the Love of Big Brother.”

—Cortni Quarles, “A Plague on Both their Houses: “The Totalitarian Ideology as a Tool for Mobilization.”

Our Students at the 2015 Annual Conference of NCAH

Upsilon Zeta Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta National

History Honor Society

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The 2015 Department of History Scholarship Awards

Scholarship Amount Winner Royal Mack Scholarship $1,000 Majonica Haithcox Frank Bell rising senior scholarship $1,000 Dejah Denbrook Frank Bell rising sophomore scholarship $1,000 Xioma Irizarry Frank Bell incoming freshman scholarship $1,000 Stacey Harris

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THE SPRING 2015 GRADUATES

Bachelor of Arts (History Professional)

Namede Bennett Nathan Kemp Tia McNeill

Brenton Murphy Cortni Quarles Trevor Ventus

Bachelor of Science (History Secondary Education)

Zebulon Todd

Bachelor of Arts (LIBS Pre-Law)

Brandon Anderson Charles Cantrell Deronn Cobbs-Hinton

Candice Dew Shanelle Edmonds Tawanna Franklin

Justin Godette Maya Goudeau D’Vonte Graham

Eboni Thompson

Philosophy Minors

Brandon Anderson Marylou Banks Charles Cantrell

Deronn Cobbs-Hinton Candice Dew Christopher Duncan

Shanelle Edmonds Tawanna Franklin Brenton Murphy

Deandrea Newsome Eboni Thompson

History Minors

Sade Mack

Melvin Marriiner

African American History Minors

Nana Opoku

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Alumni News

Alumni Foundation Event Center

History is a subject that embraces every-thing. It is a discipline that clarifies, fosters, completes and enrich the study of all other disciplines.

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Tim Sinclair, class of 1988. Park Ranger, Booker T. Washington National Monument Hardy, VA.

William Dudley, class of 2002. Attorney and Hearing officer with the Employment Security Commission, State of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC (NCCU School of Law graduate)

Robert Parker, class of 1999. National Park Administra-tor, National Parks Service; Ph.D. candidate at Howard Uni-versity.

Wayne Turnage, class of 1980. MPA from Ohio State, Chief of Staff for the Governor of VA.

Shawn Tuck (Watlington), class of 1992. Educational program administrator, NC A&T SU, Greensboro.

John D, Roseboro, class of 1995. Corporate attorney in Raleigh, NC (UNC School of Law grad.)

Dr. Jelani Favors, class of 1998. Assistant Prof of Histo-ry, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD (Ph.D. from Ohio State University.

Freda Davis (Clifton), class of 1998. School principal, Louisburg, NC (Masters and Ed. Degrees from NC State)

Antonio Jemaine Sloan, class of 2000. Award winning high school history teacher, Greensboro, NC.

Kimberly Womble, class of 2005. Program Analyst, US Environmental Protection Agency.

Julian Dobson, class of 2005. Ph.D. candidate, Universi-ty of New Mexico at Albuquerque.

Mr. Ernest Hooker, an Adjunct History in-structor at North Carolina A&T State Univer-sity, served in the United States Army from 1994 to 1998. Since 2009 he has created exhibits displaying the personal artifacts of local heroes who served in the United States Armed Forces from the Civil War to World War II. As a member of the Greater North Carolina Chapters 9th and 10th of Horse Calvary Association which honors the Buffalo Soldiers, a unique unit of African American soldiers who helped to expand the Western Frontier following the Civil War, Mr. Hooker has given many lectures on the role played in American wars by the Buffalo Sol-diers. His latest presentation on 17 February 2015, as part of the National African Ameri-can month activities, at the U.S. Army Re-search Office, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina was on “America’s Wars: The Utilization of the Black Soldiers in the Revolutionary War and Civil War.”

Alumni News

Notable Alumni

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Our Alumni Information Tell Us About Yourself

Use this form to submit information about yourself. Publication of announcements will be based on the availability of space. Those that are incomplete (such as marriage/union and birth announcements without spouse/partner infor-mation) or older than one year would not be considered for publication. Please, PRINT information clearly and mail to Dr. Arwin D. Smallwood, Professor and Chair, Room 324 Gibbs Hall, Department of History, NC A&T State University, 1601 E. Market Street, Greensboro, NC 27411. You may also send information by email to asmallwo@ncat.edu

___________________________________________________________________________________________ Last Name First Middle/Maiden ____________________________________________________________________________________________ NC A&T degrees and year(s)____________________________________________________________________________________________ Address ____________________________________________________________________________________________ City State Zip

____________________________________________________________________________________________ Telephone Email (Only if you want address published) SPOUSE/PARTNER ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Last Name First Middle/Maiden ____________________________________________________________________________________________ NC A&T degrees and year(s) EMPLOYMENT ______________________________________________________________________________________________________

Position (No abbreviations, please) Phone ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Company name ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Company address City State Zip RETIREMENT ______________________________________________________________________________________________________

Position month/day/year ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Company name City State Zip MARRIAGE/UNION ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Month/day/year FAMILY ADDITION _ Boy_____Girl______________________________________________________________________________________ (Please circle) _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Last name First name Middle IN MEMORIAM (Please include published notice) _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Last name First name Middle/Maiden ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Month/day/year City State Class Year(s)

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Nominate a worthy alumnus or friend for an Alumni Award The deadline for submissions is March 31, 2016

We invite you to nominate individuals, who through their service and achievements, personify NC A&T State University’s tradition of excellence and opportunity which offer our students every chance to excel: with collabo-rative partnerships, varied methods of instruction, high expectations of achievement, and a great breadth of interdisciplinary studies. For a complete description of

For a complete description of the awards, visit http:www.ncat.edu/academics/schools-colleges1/cas/ aca-demic-departments/history/index.html no later than March 31. Additional forms are available at asmall-wo@ncat.edu ATTACH YOUR NOMINATION TO THIS FORM AND MAIL TO: The Chair, Department of History, NC A&T State University, Room 324 Gibbs Hall, 1601 East Market Street, Greensboro, NC 27411. I nominate ___________________________________________________________________ For [ ] Award for service to NC A&T State University [ ] Award for early career achievement [ ] ALUMNI CITIZENSHIP AWARD for community service [ ] PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD for career achievement [ ] AWARD for University advocacy [ ] AWARD for volunteer service to students [ ] ALUMNI MEDALIST AWARD for national or international career achievement NOMINEE INFORMATION Please print

Street Address ___________________________________________ Class year(s) ________________

City ______________________________________________ State ______________ Zip ____________

Phone ______________________________ Email___________________________________________

NOMINATOR (Please print)

Your name ___________________________________________________________________________

Street address ________________________________________________________________________

City ________________________________________ State ________________ Zip _______________

Phone __________________________________ Email _______________________________________

● Nomination period is Jan 1 to Mar 31 ● Current members of the board of directors of NC A&T State University Alumni Association are not eligible for these awards, and previous recipients are not eligible in the same category, ● If multiple nominations are received for an individual, the most complete and representative one will be sent to the selection committee.

● Nominees must be living at the time at the time the nomination is submitted. ● Nomination statements must be limited to three typewritten, single-spaced 8½ X 11 page. (In each case, a maximum of 6 pages will be submitted to the jury.) ● Curriculum vitae and resume maybe accepted but will be accepted but will be counted in the maximum number of pages.

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Announcements

Application for Department of History Awards

Name: ________________________________________________________________________

Phone: _______________________________________________________________________

Email: ________________________________________________________________________

Class (circle one): Graduating Senior Junior Sophomore Freshman

Current Cumulative GPA: __________ Current History GPA: ________

Name of faculty advisor: _________________________________________________________

Award sought (check one):

Carter G. Woodson Award _____

Applicants for the Carter G. Woodson Award must submit a research paper on an African or Afri-can American history topic with this application (see flyer for more details). All papers should be submitted electronically to woodj@ncat.edu by 5:00 pm on April 20th.

The Royall Mack Scholarship _____

Applicants for this scholarship must submit an essay of 500 words in which they explain how they have served the Department of History in achieving its goals (see flyer for more details). All es-says should be submitted electronically to woodj@ncat.edu by 5:00 pm on April 20th.

The Frank Bell Scholarship _____

Applicants must have a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.0. Applicants for this schol-arship must submit an essay of 500 words in which they reflect on what it means to be a history or history education major (see flyer for more details). All essays should be submitted electronically to woodj@ncat.edu by 5:00 pm on April 20th.

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the Department of History

Invites applications for

The 2016 Royall Mack Scholarship

What are the scholarship guidelines?

●The Royall Mack Scholarship is a $1000 award.

●It will be given to the History or History Education major that best exemplifies ser-vice to the Department of History.

●Service can be provided through a variety of activities, including but not limited to:

○The History Scholars

○Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society

○The Gibbs Lecture & Conference

What do you need to do?

●Get an application form from Ms. Booker in Gibbs 324.

●Place completed application in the mailbox of Dr. James Wood (in room 324).

●Write an essay of no more than 500 words that explains your service to the De-partment of History.

●Email the essay as an attachment to Dr. James Wood at woodj@ncat.edu before 5:00 pm on April 20

th.

●Please put the words “Mack Scholarship Submission” in the email subject line.

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The Department of History Newsletter

Call for Papers by the History Scholars

Third Annual Conference & Annual Gibbs Lecture

Theme: “Globalization”

The History Scholars and the Department of History at North Carolina

Agricultural & Technical State University invites the submission of ses-

sion and paper proposals for the 3rd annual conference to be held in

Greensboro, North Carolina during the 1st week of April 2016. We are

requesting proposals for the presentation of papers or panel discus-

sions around the theme of “Globalization.” Globalization is often

viewed as a contemporary phenomenon, but has spanned several

centuries. An examination of the historical process of globalization, its

origins, growth and implications can provide a clearer understanding of

global issues in the modern age. We will invite local high school stu-

dents and college students to submit proposals that explore how glob-

alization has impacted the field of history, economics, technology,

geography, political science, and religion, as well as the far-reaching

ramifications of globalization on social justice, race and ethnic rela-

tions, and gender dynamics.

Dept. of History’s website: http://www.ncat.edu/academics/schools-colleges1/cas/academic-departments/history/index.html

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The Department of History, NC A&T State University, will host the 2016 Annual

Conference of the North Carolina Association of Historians.

During its 2015 annual meeting, the North Carolina

Association of Historians resolved to hold it 2016

Annual Conference at North Carolina Agricultural &

Technical State University. The North Carolina Associa-

tion of Historians (NCAH) offers opportunities for his-

torians in all fields—American, World, European, state

and local—to meet, discuss research and exchange ide-

as with colleagues throughout the state of North Caroli-

na. In addition to participation by faculty and graduate

students at post-secondary institutions, the Associa-

tion welcomes individuals whose careers are in public

history as well as social studies teachers in public and

private schools. Membership is affordable, and

members receive the annual Journal of the North

Carolina Association of Historians.

North Carolina Association of Historians

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Dept. of History’s website: http://www.ncat.edu/academics/schools-colleges1/cas/academic-departments/history/index.html

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the Department of History

Invites applications for

The 2016 Frank Bell Scholarships

What are the scholarship guidelines?

● Three $1000 awards will be given to the History or History Education majors that best exemplify excellence or the potential for excellence in the Department of History

○ One will go to a rising senior (at least 90 attempted hours)

○ One will go to a rising sophomore (at least 30 attempted hours)

○ One will go to an incoming freshman

● Applicants must have at least a 3.0 cumulative GPA

● Excellence will be based on cumulative GPA, history GPA, SAT scores, and the quality of the essay submitted

What do you need to do?

● Get an application form from Ms. Booker in Gibbs 324

● Place completed application in the mailbox of Dr. James Wood (in room 324)

● Write an essay of no more than 500 words in which you reflect on what it means to be a history or history education major at N. C. A&T State University

● Email the essay as an attachment to Dr. James Wood at woodj@ncat.edu before 5:00 pm on April 20

th

● Please put the words “Bell Scholarship Submission” in the email subject line.

Dept. of History’s website: http://www.ncat.edu/academics/schools-colleges1/cas/academic-departments/history/index.html

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Contact Us

North Carolina A&T State University Department of History 324 Gibbs Hall 1601 E. Market St Greensboro, NC 27411 Tel: (336) 285-2324 Fax: (336) 334-7837

Dr. Arwin D. Smallwood Professor and Department Chair asmallwo@ncat.edu

Dr. Yunqiu Zhang Associate Professor and Associate Chair yzhang@ncat.edu

Dr. Fuabeh Fonge, Professor and Editor fpfonge@ncat.edu

To Our Donors

The Department of History takes this

opportunity to appeal for your

donations. Please, make checks paya-

ble to the Department of History, NC

A&T State University. Thanks for your

generosity.

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