Spring 2008
Sports as American
History: Urban Development and Race Relations
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February 2008
Dr.
Roger Lotchin, UNC-Chapel Hill Department of History
Greg
Kaliss, UNC-Chapel Hill Department of History
PHE's first
workshop of 2008 will be “Sports as American History: Urban Development and
Race Relations,” and it’s just in time for the Super Bowl. While you may talk
with your colleagues around the water cooler about "last night's
game," you can also use the game to start a conversation with your
students.
This workshop will broaden
our understanding of sports in the United States history and culture. Why is it
that some cities lose their professional sports teams and other cities acquire
them? Dr. Roger Lotchin of UNC's History Department will show us how urban rivalry,
urban development, and urban decline can be shown by the development of
professional sports teams. He'll also talk about how the role of sports brings
together different groups of society.
Greg
Kaliss, a Ph.D. candidate in UNC's History Department, will talk about how those
different groups, particularly racial groups, clashed over playing sports. He
will link the integration of collegiate sports and the American public's
reaction to them to the end of segregation in American society in the 1960s.
Teaching the Cold
War Through Film
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April 2008
Dr.
Don Reid, UNC-Chapel Hill Department of History
More
information to follow soon! Stay tuned!
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