Go Big Read Author Meets with History Undergraduate and Graduate Students

This year’s Go Big Read book is How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith. On November 2nd, 2022, Clint Smith spoke with History undergraduates and graduate students in the Humanities Building in the Curti Lounge. Students had the opportunity to ask Smith about his book and his professional work with public history and writing for a public audience in a small group format. The conversation with Smith was le
d by Professor Simon Balto and the Director of the Public History Project, Kacie Lucchini Butcher.

Smith chats with faculty and students of the history department in the Humanities Building on November 2nd.
Smith chats with faculty and students of the history department in the Humanities Building on November 2nd. Photo by: Althea Dotzour
Simon Balto, assistant professor of history, ask a question about the Angola Prison chapter of the book. Photo by Althea Dotzour
Simon Balto, assistant professor of history, ask a question about the Angola Prison chapter of the book. Photo by: Althea Dotzour
Undergraduate student Sara Mulrooney asks, “What advice do you have for historians who are writing to a public audience?” Photo by Althea Dotzour
Undergraduate student Sara Mulrooney asks, “What advice do you have for historians who are writing to a public audience?” Photo by: Althea Dotzour
Undergraduate student Andrew Santamarina takes notes on the opening pages of his copy of “How the Word Is Passed." Photo by Althea Dotzour
Undergraduate student Andrew Santamarina takes notes on the opening pages of his copy of “How the Word Is Passed.” Photo by: Althea Dotzour
Emily Tran, a sixth year PhD student, gets Smith to sign her copy of “How the Word Is Passed." Photo by Althea Dotzour
Emily Tran, a sixth year Ph.D. student, gets Smith to sign her copy of “How the Word Is Passed.” Photo by: Althea Dotzour