Still Life
University Park Airport Emergency Response Exercise
Commencement across Penn State: Spring 2012
Spring commencement 2012 under way
Penn State, Moroccan students problem-solve together
Finals Week Spring Semester 2012
Painting the Lines at Beaver Stadium
Did They Get It Right? - RedTails
Iconic Penn State elm taken down over spring break 2012
We ... are Penn State (December 19, 2011)
Disease stricken matching elm tree slated for removal
Penn State's creamery, from the cow to the cone
On Wednesday, Oct. 27, 300 students, faculty, staff, and members of the public attended a noon presentation by E. Benjamin Skinner in the Penn State Beaver Student Union Building auditorium. Skinner, the author of 'A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery,' presented research and first-hand information about the atrocities of human trafficking and slavery around the globe, including the United States. He also conducted a question-and-answer session with the audience. The Office of Student Affairs, which sponsored the presentation, also hosted a luncheon for Skinner and 40 members of the audience following his presentation. For information about the event or how to contact Skinner, e-mail or call Chris Rizzo, director of student affairs, at clr4@psu.edu or 724-773-3957.
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"If you walked in the streets in 18th or 19th century Cape Town, and you looked at the people in the street, you would not be able to tell by skin color who was a slave owner and who was a slave. There was heavy regulation about what clothing slaves could wear, whether they could congregate in larger numbers than two or three at a time, whether they could travel at night without carrying a pass or carrying a lantern. They were never able to travel at night without being lighted in some way." This is the legacy that lingers with us, even during the post-apartheid period." -Gabeba Baderoon, Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and African and African American Studies (more)
Anthony Kaye, assistant professor of history at Penn State, has been awarded a 2009 fellowship of approximately $50,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to write a book on Nat Turner's rebellion of 1831. An affiliate of the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center. Kaye's book will use the Turner insurrection to introduce neighborhoods as a new perspective on slavery to a general audience. (more)
Over the last 30 years, American historians have made substantial progress in revising our understanding of slavery. In his book, "Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South," Anthony Kaye reinterprets and builds on these advances to create a vivid portrait of antebellum slave life. (more)
