MIDDLEBURY — Nell Irvin Painter, Edwards Professor of American History Emerita at Princeton University, will deliver one of this semester’s signature lectures at Middlebury College on Friday, Oct. 9, at 4:30 p.m. Painter’s lecture, “The History of White People and What It Means For Now” will be available via Zoom. Responding to the urgency of confronting this country’s racist past and present, Professor Painter, author of “The History of White People” (2010), will trace the invention of the idea of race and … (read more)
