RECENT NEWS AND HIGHLIGHTS

On January, 27, 2010 Heath Mitton presented a lecture to the American History Research Seminar of Oxford University's Rothermere American Institute. The lecture was titled "The Underground War: Slaveholding America, Postemancipation Britain, and the Struggle for Mastery of the Atlantic.

On January, 7, 2010 Heath Mitton presented a paper as part of the annual meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA) entitled "The Ashburton Capitulation': The Convention of London, British Defeat, and the Americanization of the Atlantic, c. 1842."

The Department of History offers its congratulations!