Stories about "Joseph Hall"
Faculty in the News: Joe Hall corrects and deepens the Native, pre-colonist history of two Maine downtown landmarks

Friday, August 23, 2024 11:41 am

History professor Joe Hall uses his faculty expertise to help deepen the historical record about how two landmarks in Brunswick, Maine, came to be.

Beyond ‘founded by abolitionists’: Students and faculty undertake a more inclusive examination of Bates’ founding story

Wednesday, February 26, 2020 2:07 pm

Ongoing research by Bates faculty and students into the college’s early connection to the U.S. slave economy seeks to add long-silenced voices to the college’s founding narrative.

Look What We Found: Joe Hall’s chunk of ash wood

Tuesday, November 27, 2018 4:06 pm

The ash tree looms large in Wabanaki culture. That’s why Hall, a Bates historian, keeps a hunk of the hardwood in his Pettengill Hall office.

Convocation 2018 remarks: Associate Professor of History Joseph Hall

Friday, September 7, 2018 10:24 am

Associate Professor of History Joseph Hall explores Bates’ complicated early history and its implications for us

With new urgency, Bates professors say what — and why — they’re excited to teach this fall

Friday, September 8, 2017 11:59 am

When saying what they're excited to teach, faculty always express optimism for a new academic year and their new students. This year, we heard something different.

Bates in the News: Nov. 11, 2016

Friday, November 11, 2016 8:38 am

Bates-related election news include local and national coverage of an attempt to discourage Bates students from voting.

Video: Bates professors say what they’re excited to teach (2015)

Friday, September 18, 2015 9:42 am

As they gather for the academic procession for Convocation, Bates professors say what they're excited to teach.

Native American leaders to discuss relationship between land, culture

Wednesday, September 16, 2009 3:26 pm

Members of three Native American tribes will discuss the hopes that Maine Indians have for their lands at 4:15 p.m. Monday, Sept. 21, in Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Campus Ave.

Joseph Hall's Wabanaki history course conveys hidden stories

Thursday, March 26, 2009 1:55 pm

Information and knowledge are two different things. Teachers like Joseph Hall Jr. proffer the first, but their real work is leading students to the second. Hall does that so well that Bates students chose him for the prestigious 2009 Kroepsch Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Wabanaki high school students check out Bates

Wednesday, July 2, 2008 3:15 pm

As part of a program to raise aspirations and increase awareness of college opportunities, 10 high school students from Maine's Wabanaki tribes visited Bates, Bowdoin and Colby colleges over three days in early July. The program is just one example of "many coordinated efforts by the three colleges and tribal representatives" to reach out to the Native American communities, said Jared Cash '04, the Bates associate dean of admissions who coordinated the Bates visit.