Medaille College News

Dr. William Graebner, former professor of history at SUNY Fredonia, will present “Taking the ‘local’ out of local history: Making meaning through Buffalo’s past,” as part of the Buffalo History Speaker Series on Thursday, March 27 at 6 p.m. in the Medaille College Lecture Hall.

Dr. Graebner wrote Coming of Age in Buffalo: Youth and Authority in the Postwar Era, and retired from SUNY Fredonia after 30 years of teaching history. This event is free and open to the public. A question and answer session and refreshments will follow.

The Buffalo History Speaker Series is sponsored by the Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies Departments at Medaille College.

The Buffalo History Speakers Series event with Dr. Lillian Serece Williams originally scheduled for Tuesday, March 4 has been rescheduled for Tuesday, April 8 in the Main Building’s Alumni Room (first floor) at 6 p.m. This is a change from the previously rescheduled date of April 1.

Dr. Williams is an associate professor and chair of the department of African-American studies at the University at Buffalo. She wrote Strangers in the Land of Paradise (Blacks in the Diaspora), a look at Buffalo’s black community from 1900 to 1940.

This event is free and open to the public. A question and answer session and refreshments will follow. The Buffalo History Speaker Series is sponsored by the Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies Departments at Medaille College.