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Adriane D. Lentz-Smith

Associate Professor of History
History
Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708-0719
Dept of History, Classroom Bldg, Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708-0719
Office hours By appointment  

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Remembering World War I: The Battlefield and Beyond - Double Victory: The African-American Military Experience · May 25, 2017 Invited Talk National Museum of African-American History and Culture,

Panel featuring Adriane Lentz-Smith, Nikki Brown, Lisa Budreau, and Chad L. Williams

African-American Soldiers During World War I - American History TV · April 2017 Interview C-Span 3,
A Most Peculiar Institution: Slavery, Jim Crow, and the American University Today · November 21, 2016 Invited Talk Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts

With Jonathan Scott Holloway

Grand Strategy and the Problem of Race - Rethinking Grand Strategy Conference · May 2016 Invited Talk Oregon State University,
"The Laws Have Hurt Me:" State Violence and the Rebirth of White Supremacy - Dunbar-Stone Lecture · April 2016 Invited Talk University of North Carolina ,
Unfinished Revolutions: Black Lives, State Violence, and the Second Reconstruction - Legacies of Reconstruction · November 2015 Invited Talk Virginia Tech Center for Civil War Studies,
The Long Black Freedom Struggle: African American Soldiers in World War I and Korea - Scholars Roundtable · March 2014 Other Library of Congress,

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship


Bass Connections Faculty Team Member - America's Sacred Spaces · 2018 - 2019 Projects & Field Work

Primary Theme: Information, Society & Culture

The United States possesses singular places where citizens and others can visit to absorb elements of the nation’s depth of pain, triumph, awe, reverence, disappointments and dreams. “Sacred spaces” in this context refers to understanding America by literally standing in places and taking in layers of meaning that plumb the depths of our national character.   This pilot project will launch a multiyear, in-depth documentary research initiative to tell stories of 40 essential American places that enhance our understanding of the United States. This initiative will result in a field guide to the meaning of this country—a pilgrim’s itinerary into the soul of America. Ultimately, the goal is to provide a website, app and book that will provide orientations in text, maps and pictures of the country’s most sacred spaces. These tools will provide tangible lessons in civics, history, cultures and geographies, all combining to ground the traveler in our common heritage.

Faculty Participant, - Rethinking the History of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era · July 2015 Other NEH Summer Teachers' Institute Service to the Community ; Led a workshop to 30 high school teachers on African Americans and the Progressive Era for NEH Summer Teachers' Institute on Rethinking the Gilded Age and Progressive Era."
Presenter: Hidden Histories, Fact or Fiction? - Public Schools Teacher Workshop · November 2014 Professional Development North Carolina Civic Education Consortium , North Carolina Museum of History
Panelist - Veterans Braintrust: A Prelude to the U.S. Commemoration of World War I: Lessons for Iraq and Afghanistan Returning Solders and Their Families · September 2014 Event Participation Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual Legislative Conference

Service to the Profession


Co-Chair - Program Committee · 2017 Event/Organization Administration Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations,
Editorial Board - Modern American History · 2016 Editorial Activities
Co-Chair - Committee on Minority Historians · 2016 - 2019 Committee Service Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations,
Program Committee, Southern Association of Women Historians Tri-Annual Meeting, 2015 · 2013 Other
Anonymous Reader for manuscript submitted to Cambridge University Press · 2013 Other
Anonymous Reader for manuscript submitted to Duke University Press · 2013 Other
Program Committee, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Meeting · 2012 - 2014 Other
Laura Romero Book Prize Committee, American Studies Association · 2012 - 2013 Other
Co-Organizer, Triangle Seminar in the History of the Military, War, and Society · 2012 Other
Program Committee, Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, 2014 · 2012 Other
Minority Scholars Committee, American Studies Association · 2011 Other
Anonymous reader for manuscript submitted to University of Pennsylvania press · 2011 Other
Anonymous reader for article submitted to the journal Southern Cultures. · 2010 Other