• Apr 15, 2021
  • Office of Communications

Teaching While Black: From Enslaved to Educator

Fanny Jackson Coppin, Oberlin College’s second Black female graduate and its first Black instructor, was a lifelong educator and activist. John Frederick Bell, Ph.D., assistant professor of history, will deliver a virtual lecture on Coppin’s life and legacy entitled, “Teaching While Black: The...

Teaching While Black: From Enslaved to Educator
  • Dec 09, 2020

Prof. Keyes’s Lecture on the Role of the Press in Perpetuating Slavery to Air on Shrewsbury Public Television

By Joel Rosario ’24 Carl Robert Keyes, Ph.D., professor in and chair of the Department of History at Assumption, actively seeks to share how slavery impacted enslaved men, women, and children in the 18th century through his Adverts 250 Project. His recent lecture on the topic, which was spo...

Prof. Keyes’s Lecture on the Role of the Press in Perpetuating Slavery to Air on Shrewsbury Public Television
  • Dec 07, 2018
  • Office of Communications

Slavery Adverts 250 Project Featured on Detroit Public Radio

Professor Carl Robert Keyes, Ph.D., was featured on WDET’s “Detroit Today with Stephen Henderson,” an NPR-affiliated current events program. Prof. Keyes, associate professor of history and director of the Women’s Studies Program at Assumption, discussed the history of newspaper advertisement...

Slavery Adverts 250 Project Featured on Detroit Public Radio