Category: History

Professor of History and department co-chair Roy E. Finkenbine was interviewed Oct. 12 on WDET’s “Detroit Today” with Stephen Henderson about Detroit’s Underground Railroad. Listen to the full interview. He also moderated conversations with two authors of recent Underground Railroad novels: Cynthia Mullen of Hinges and Kai Thomas of In The …

Professor of History Greg Sumner introduced two award-winning World War II movies at the Historic Redford Theatre, in honor of Veterans Day: The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), dealing with the readjustment challenges facing soldiers returning home from combat, and “Mrs. Miniver (1942),” about a housewife in Britain who …