Laurent Dubois, the Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History at Duke University, talks about his book Haiti: The Aftershocks of History (2012). He is the author of Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France (2010) and Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution (2004), and is currently writing a history of the banjo.

Laurent Dubois, Duke University, talks about his book Haiti: The Aftershocks of History (2012). He is the author of Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France (2010) and Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution (2004), and is currently writing a history of the banjo.

Anthony Grafton, the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University, delivers this Lowell Humanities Series lecture, titled “The Florentine Renaissance Portrait: Cultural Origins of a New Art Form.”

Anthony Grafton, the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University, delivers this Lowell Humanities Series lecture, titled “The Florentine Renaissance Portrait: Cultural Origins of a New Art Form.”

Richard Grayson, senior lecturer in British and Irish Politics at Goldsmith, University of London, discusses how a civil war between Unionists and Nationalists over home rule in Ireland was averted when men from both factions enlisted to fight together in the British armed forces during World War I.

Richard Grayson, senior lecturer in British and Irish Politics at Goldsmith, University of London, discusses how a civil war between Unionists and Nationalists over home rule in Ireland was averted when men from both factions enlisted to fight together in the British armed forces during World War I.

Jane Brox, award-winning author Here and Nowhere Else: Late Seasons of a Farm and Its Family, reads from her new book Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light. Brox traces the history and importance of man-made light from the time cave artists used limestone and tallow lamps, through today.

Jane Brox, award-winning author Here and Nowhere Else: Late Seasons of a Farm and Its Family, reads from her new book Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light. Brox traces the history and importance of man-made light from the time cave artists used limestone and tallow lamps, through today.

English professor James Smith study of the controversial workhouses where socially marginalized and so-called fallen women and girls were confined throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.

Since its founding, America has been compared to Rome, says Cullen Murphy.