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The UWM Department of History’s sixth Jere D. McGaffey Lecture will be Thursday, April 2, at 3 p.m. in the UWM Student Union, Alumni Fireside Lounge.<\/p>\n

Nathan B.D. Connolly, the Herbert Baxter Adams associate professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, will speak on “Letters from the Ancestors: Family History and Our Capitalist Future.”<\/p>\n

Connolly’s research interests include 20th-century America, racism, capitalism, urban and suburban history, and African diaspora.<\/p>\n

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