2024 Little Lectures: Andrea Pitzer, "One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps"

MacFarland-Hubbard House 1310 Kanawha Blvd E, Charleston, WV, United States

(FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT OUR LITTLE LECTURES PROGRAM PAGE.) For more than one hundred years, at least one concentration camp has existed somewhere on Earth. First used as a battlefield strategy, camps have evolved with each passing decade, and have been used to control or liquidate “undesirable” civilian populations across the globe. Parkersburg-born author […]

2024 Little Lectures: Robert Miller, "The Doctrine of Discovery and Colonization in North America"

MacFarland-Hubbard House 1310 Kanawha Blvd E, Charleston, WV, United States

(FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT OUR LITTLE LECTURES PROGRAM PAGE.) North America, New Zealand, and Australia were colonized by England for centuries under an international legal principle that is known today as the doctrine of discovery. The doctrine is still in use today to assert legal rights to Indigenous lands and to assert control over […]