5 PM, March 25, 2026 | Lecture, Academic Building, Room 2400
On March 25, Kelly Elaine Navies, museum specialist in oral history at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, will give a lecture on this year’s Interpreting American History Lecture Series’s theme, “Myth, Memory, and Mirage: Rethinking American History in Times of Crisis.” Navies’ oral history projects and interviews are located at the Southern Oral History Program, the Reginald F. Lewis Maryland Museum of African American History and Culture, the Washington DC Public Library Peoples’ Archive, and at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). Graduate students are invited to a workshop and a luncheon with the distinguished speaker from Noon to 2 PM at Van Dyck Hall, Room 308, earlier the same day. More details about the event will be forthcoming.