Harvard professor, historian and staff writer for The New Yorker, Jill Lepore kicks off the spring Think Forum lecture series on Wednesday, March 7 at 6:00 PM at the Maltz Performing Arts Center with her talk, "American History from Beginning to End." Lepore will explore the question, "can a divided nation have a shared past?" and discuss the challenges of writing the history of the United States in a time of division.
Africa & Byzantium considers the complex artistic relationships between northern and eastern African Christian kingdoms and the Byzantine Empire from the fourth…