Vivian Bruce Conger, History, has published "'There Is Graite Odds between A Mans being At Home And A Broad': Deborah Read Franklin and the Eighteenth-Century Home" in the journal Gender and History, Volume 21, Issue 3, 2009, pp. 592-607.

ITHACA, NY — A historian who has studied the global emergence of cocaine out of Latin American will give a free public talk at Ithaca College on Thursday, Nov. 19. Paul Gootenberg will present “The Pre-Colombian Origins of Drug Trafficking in the Americas: Illicit Cocaine, 1945–1973” at 6 p.m. in Textor 101.

A professor of history at Stony Brook University,...

Vivian Bruce Conger, associate professor of history, has been selected as a 2009-2010 American Philosophical Society Library Resident Fellow.

ITHACA, NY — “Duke Ellington Plays Baghdad:  Rethinking Power After 1945” is the title of a talk being given at Ithaca College on Thursday, April 16. The presentation by Penny M. Von Eschen is scheduled for 7 p.m. in room 111 of the Park Center for Business and Sustainable Enterprise. It is free and open to the public.

During the 1960s and ’70s, the U.S....

Vivian B. Conger, associate professor of history, has published The Widows' Might: Widowhood and Gender in Early British America (New York University Press, 2009)

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