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2026 Black History Month Lecture

  • February 8, 2026 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Eastern Standard Time

Ticket Price $5.97 Register Now
Description

We’re excited to host Dr. Seth E. Rockman for our annual Black History Month Lecture on Sunday, February 8 at 2 p.m. He will present virtually on his 2024 book Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery, a 2025 Pulitzer Prize finalist in HistoryRegistrants will be sent a Zoom link prior to the lecture.

Seth E. Rockman is a historian of the United States focusing on the period between the American Revolution and the Civil War. His research unfolds at the intersection of slavery studies, labor history, material culture studies, and the history of capitalism. Rockman’s earlier work— the award-winning Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore (2009) and the co-edited volume Slavery’s Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development (2016)— sought to better understand the relationship of slavery and capitalism in the American past. 

Date & Time

Sun, Feb 8, 2026 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Stratford Hall Historic Preserve

Stratford Hall brings together people from around the world to experience two-thousand acres of natural and human history, preserved and presented so that we can all learn from the courageous struggles of our ancestors, taking inspiration both from what they endured and what they accomplished. There are few places in America where people can travel down small, rural roads to arrive at a vast site that preserves so many aspects of early-American life, from the Great House where the influential Lee family helped to forge a new nation, to the fields worked by enslaved Africans, to the waters of the rivers that fueled trade, to the ground, which still yields secrets about the people and animals that lived before.

Come experience this extraordinary place and learn about a layered history that began millions of years ago - a history that continues to educate, inspire, and influence Americans to the present day.