Aaron Fogleman, Presidential Research Professor of History at Northern Illinois University will be delivering the Burke M. "Dutch" Hermann Lecture in American History on Thursday, October 10 at 4:00 pm in 108 Henderson. The title of the lecture is "A Historian's Search for Immigrant Voices in Four Centuries of Forced and Free Transatlantic Migrations, 1492-1870." The public is invited.

The lecture speaks to Professor Fogleman's current research on transatlantic migration, religious conflict, gender, and the impact of revolution on American society and the Atlantic World. His project investigates hundreds of English, Irish, German, Spanish, and other European immigrant voices from the Americas, as well as dozens of European convict and African slave narratives to explore free and unfree migrant hopes, dreams, fears, and expectations, as well as the realities of their experiences. Professor Fogleman has published numerous works including, Two Troubled Souls: An Eighteenth-Century Couple’s Spiritual Journey in the Atlantic World (University of North Carolina Press, 2013), Jesus Is Female: Moravians and the Challenge of Radical Religion in Early America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007), and Hopeful Journeys: German Immigration, Settlement, and Political Culture in Colonial America, 1717-1775 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996) (see https://www.niu.edu/history/about/faculty/fogleman.shtml).