Humanities

Half American: The Epic Story of Black Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad

Dartmouth historian Matthew Delmont explains how World War II raised questions regarding race and democracy that remain unanswered more than seventy years later.
Professor Matthew Delmont on African Americans & WWII

African Americans' contributions during World War Two were crucial to America's victory—but their stories have long been ignored.
Back to Class: Written in Blood — The Russian Literary Origins of Modern Terrorism

Lynn Ellen Patyk, assistant professor of Russian
Back to Class: Sneak Peek Inside the Newly Renovated Hood Museum of Art

John Stomberg, Virginia Rice Kelsey 1961s Director of the Hood, and Enrico Riley '95, professor of studio art
The American Story Through the African American Lens

Annette Gordon-Reed ’81 P’15, Dartmouth Trustee and professor of law and history at Harvard University; Steve Swayne, Jacob H. Strauss 1922 Professor of Music at Dartmouth; and Rembert Browne ’09, writer