History Department News: November 2024

Books and Publications

• Friend, Craig Thompson. “Becoming Lunsford Lane: The Lives of an American Aeneas.” The University of North Carolina Press, 2025.
• Lechner, Steve. “A Swann’s Song: The NFL’s War on Violence and a Concussion Crisis Averted in the 1970s” Journal of Sport History, Summer 2024.
• Paulette, Tate. The fermented crescent, Aeon, October 24, 2024 and The land of Ninkasi: Beer in ancient Mesopotamia. Ancient History 51.

Faculty Events & Lectures

• On November 14, Dr. Xiaolin Duan, gave a talk on her research at UNC Carolina Asian Center. Her talk was called “Three Cities of the Early Modern Pacific: Connections and Conflicts between the Ming Dynasty and the Spanish Empire.”

• On November 21, we honored and celebrated Dr. Nancy Mitchell at her retirement reception. Dr. Mitchell served on our faculty for thirty years and is the author of the award winning book, Jimmy Carter in Africa: Race and the Cold War as well as The Danger of Dreams: German and American Imperialism in Latin America, 1895-1914 (1999). Dr. Mitchell is a brilliant scholar who will be missed by staff, students and faculty of the History department.