Cartoonist Scott Chantler will discuss “Bringing the 1934 Chatham Coloured All-Stars to the comics page” in a free public address Friday.
A symposium Friday and Saturday will examine Canadian experiences in sport in the context of a racialized world.
Volunteers with the 2017 WEDig History survey explored Assumption Park for buildings that once stood on the site.
UWindsor geoscientists invite the public to join them in a geophysical survey of Assumption Park on June 16 and 17.
Heidi Jacobs will discuss her work on the Chatham Coloured All-Stars archive in a free public lecture April 25.
Heidi Jacobs will discuss her work on the Chatham Coloured All-Stars archive in a free public lecture April 25.
![Dave Johnston, Miriam Wright and Heidi Jacobs were awarded with the Lieutenant Governor's Ontario Heritage Award for Excellence in Conservation for their project Breaking the Colour Barrier: Wilfred "Boomer" Harding and the Chatham Coloured All-Stars (193](http://www.uwindsor.ca/dailynews/civil/sites/uwindsor.ca.dailynews/files/styles/full/public/colourbarrier-2.jpg?itok=_lKrIf97 "Dave Johnston, Miriam Wright and Heidi Jacobs were awarded with the Lieutenant Governor's Ontario Heritage Award for Excellence in Conservation for their project Breaking the Colour Barrier: Wilfred "Boomer" Harding and the Chatham Coloured All-Stars (193")
Dave Johnston, Miriam Wright and Heidi Jacobs were awarded with the Lieutenant Governor's Ontario Heritage Award for Excellence in Conservation for their project Breaking the Colour Barrier: Wilfred "Boomer" Harding and the Chatham Coloured All-Stars (1932-1939).
There were no easy games for the Chatham Coloured All-Stars.
It's what Wilfred "Boomer" Harding recalled decades after his team was forced to overcome adversity both on and off the baseball diamond to become champions of the Ontario Baseball Amateur Association's Intermediate B-1 class in 1934.
That road to the championship game was onerous.
The Black baseball team travelled across the province to compete in games, often being denied accommodations and forced to continue driving in precarious conditions before eventually reaching a welcome refuge.
A keynote address Friday on the battle of Vimy Ridge and its evolving significance over 100 years will open the Windsor Military Studies Conference.
A keynote address Friday on the battle of Vimy Ridge and its evolving significance over 100 years will open the Windsor Military Studies Conference.
A set of 21 baseball cards celebrates the players who made up the barrier-breaking baseball team, the Chatham Coloured All-Stars.
The Chimczuk Museum will celebrate Black History Month with free admission Thursday and the opening of a display by UWindsor researchers.
Guillaume Teasdale, Lezlie Wade, and Emmanuelle Richez will discuss the significance of Les Belles Soeurs in a session before its opening Friday, February 2.
Desserts and Discussion will pair sweets with a conversation on the play Les Belles Soeurs, Friday in the Jackman Dramatic Art Centre.
History student Peter Sawicki and Windsor-Tecumseh MPP Percy Hatfield with the displays exhibited this summer at the Ontario Legislative Assembly in Toronto.
History student Peter Sawicki will be on Parliament Hill for an exhibit of his research into the WWII era Polish army recruitment centre in Windsor.
History professor Rob Nelson narrates over a map of eastern Europe during rehearsals of the Live Doc Project.
UWindsor professors and students will take their experimental interactive documentary to a couple of U.S. cities over the next week.
UWindsor history professor Max Nelson holds a reproduction of a Philistine beer jug from around 1200 BC in his office on Sept. 22. Dr. Nelson will participate in a symposium discussing the ancient beverage on Sept. 30.
The next time you’re sipping on a pint of your favourite peanut butter porter, take a moment to pour one out for the barbarians.
If it weren’t for those Germanic tribes in northern Europe, says University of Windsor professor Max Nelson, the popular alcoholic beverage may still be considered the “effeminate drink of foreigners.”
“The Greeks held pseudo-scientific beliefs about alcohol, including that wine is hot and manly while beer is cold and effeminate,” Dr. Nelson said.
