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300 Carson Hall
Hanover, NH  03755
P: (603) 646-2545 or
(603) 646-9503
F: (603) 646-3353
 
Contact Information:
Chair: Walter Simons (walter.simons@dartmouth.edu)
Vice Chairs: David Lagomarsino (david.lagomarsino@dartmouth.edu) [Fall] and Douglas Haynes (douglas.haynes@dartmouth.edu) [Winter & Spring]
 
A&S History Department Administrator:  Gail M. Vernazza (gail.vernazza@dartmouth.edu)
History Department Administrative Assistant:  Bruch Lehmann (kristin.b.lehmann@dartmouth.edu)
 
 
Banner image:
Leonardo Bruni, Historia Florentina, Venice, 1476. Printed on vellum, illuminated bifolium (Dartmouth College, Rauner Special Collections, Lansburgh 36)

Events

Lectures and Symposiums

UNKEPT WOMEN:  Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris

Monday, May 13, 4 PM, L02 Carson Hall

Lecture by NINA KUSHNER D'90, Assistant Professor of History, Clark University

 

TOPPLING KUCHUM, CROSSING A CONTINENT: Russia's Conquest of Siberia and Expansion Across Eurasia

Tuesday, May 7th, 4 PM, L02 Carson Hall

Lecture by Erika Monahan D'96, Assistant Professor of History, University of New Mexico

 


 


 


 

 

 

 

 

Annelise Orleck

Orleck

Professor of History
Office: 402 Carson Hall
Office Phone: (603) 646-3283
Fax: (603) 646-3353
Email: Annelise.Orleck@Dartmouth.edu

Address:

  • Department of History
    Dartmouth College
    6107 Carson Hall
    Hanover, NH 03755
  • Courses

  • 2: History of the United States since 1877
  • 19: U.S. Political History in the Twentieth Century
  • 28: American Women's History since 1920
  • 29: Women and American Radicalism Left and Right
  • 96: Race, Ethnicity and Immigration in U.S. History
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    I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, where you can travel around the world without ever venturing more than a few miles from home. Brooklyn's amazing assortment of cultures sparked an interest in the study of history and ethnicity which continues to this day. I give it full expression in my senior seminar, History 96: Race, Ethnicity and Immigration in American History. I also teach U.S. Political History, 20th Century Women's History, the History of Women and American Radicalism Left and Right and Jewish history.

    I am the author of three books and the editor of one. My first book was entitled Common Sense and a Little Fire: Working Class Women's Activism in the 20th Century U.S. This is a collective biography of four Jewish immigrant women and their work as labor organizers, lobbyists, educators and community activities. My second book, Soviet-Jewish Americans traces the mass emigration by Soviet Jews to the United States between 1972 and 2000. My forthcoming book, "Storming Caesar's Palace" traces the lives of nine African-American women born in the Mississippi Delta who became hotel maids, union activists and later welfare rights activists in, of all places, Las Vegas, Nevada. I am also co-editor of The Politics of Motherhood: Activist Voices from Left to Right, which is a collection of essays about and interviews with women who were moved by their motherhood to engage in a wide range of political activities from environmental justice work to peace activism to membership in the Ku Klux Klan.

    Last Updated: 12/10/10