Historians: A Conversation About Social Change and Citizenship 1.14.2021

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A CONVERSATION ABOUT SOCIAL CHANGE AND CITIZENSHIP

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HISTORIANS Dear Friends,

Welcome to the first Forum of our 2021 season and Happy New Year!

I’m delighted you are here with us this evening for what promises to be a fascinating and oh-so-timely discussion about social change and citizenship through the lens of history.

Our remarkable panelists, Jelani Cobb and Jill Lepore, will help us answer questions like, What will “history” remember, and what will be forgotten? How do we make meaning out of it all?

How do we put it in context?

As we start a new year and approach a contentious presidential inauguration, tonight’s Forum will help us take stock of where we are, how we got here, and what we might expect to come next.

1. 14. 2021 7:30 PM Welcome & Introductions

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JELANI COBB Historian, Author, Award-Winning Journalist

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2020, FRONTLINE correspondent and The New Yorker staff writer, Jelani Cobb examines the enormous complexities and realities of race and policing in America. Cobb features prominently in Ava Duvernay’s 13th, her Oscar-nominated documentary about the current mass incarceration of black Americans, which traces the subject to its historical origins in the Thirteenth Amendment. “13th explodes the ‘mythology of black criminality,’ as The New Yorker’s Jelani Cobb at one point in the film refers to the successive and successful measures undertaken by political authorities to disempower African Americans,” wrote The Atlantic.

Cobb teaches in the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he recently accepted a duPont-Columbia Award on behalf of Duvernay for the documentary. Cobb has written a remarkable series of articles about race, the police, and injustice. His articles

include “The Anger in Ferguson,” “Murders in Charleston,” and “What We Talk About When We Talk About Reparations.”

He is the author of Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress, To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic, and The Devil & Dave Chappelle and Other Essays.

In awarding Cobb the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism, the jury wrote, “No one has done a better job of placing [the events in Ferguson, MO]—and similar happenings in other places like Sanford, Florida, Cleveland, Ohio and Staten Island, New York—in their broader context than Jelani Cobb.”

Cobb was formerly Associate Professor of History at the University of Connecticut, where he was director of the Africana Studies Institute. His forthcoming book is Antidote to Revolution: African American Anticommunism and the Struggle for Civil Rights, 1931.

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THE CONNECTICUT FORUM | PANELIST

JILL LEPORE

Historian, Author, Harvard University Professor L Jill Lepore is a Professor of American History at

Harvard University. She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker and host of the podcast, The Last Archive. Her many books include, These Truths: A History of the United States, an international bestseller and one of Time magazine’s top ten non-fiction books of the decade.

Her latest book, IF THEN: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future, was published in September.

Much of Lepore’s scholarship explores absences and asymmetries in the historical record, with an emphasis on the histories and technologies of evidence. A prize-winning professor, she teaches classes in evidence, historical methods, the humanities, and American political history.

In 2017, she launched the Democracy Project: Arguing with American History, a one-semester undergraduate course on the history of the United States, undertaken

through weekly debates in which students use primary sources to argue over competing historical interpretations of turning points in American history. She also teaches at Harvard Law School.

Lepore is the recipient of many honors and awards, and has been a finalist for the National Book Award; the National Magazine Award; and, twice, for the Pulitzer Prize. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, the Times Literary Supplement, the Journal of American History, the Yale Law Journal, and the American Quarterly.

Lepore received a B.A. in English from Tufts University, an M.A. in American Culture from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and their three sons.

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