The University of Delaware continues its tradition of hosting an annual History Workshop, with a variety of guest speakers, beginning Tuesday, Feb. 21.

The History Workshop has been a regular part of the Department of History for more than 40 years. Sessions meet at 12:15 p.m. on Tuesdays in 203 Munroe Hall. The presentations begin at 12:30 p.m., followed by discussions that conclude by 1:45 p.m.

The events are free and open to the public. Workshop attendees are invited to bring a lunch.

The speakers and their topics are:

• Feb. 21, Saladin Ambar, Lehigh University, “Mario Cuomo and the Death (and Rebirth?) of Progressive Politics.”

• Feb. 28, Madalina Veres, Temple University, “The ‘Science’ of Making Imperial Maps: Habsburg Cartographic Discourses in the 18th Century.”

• March 7, Robert Hampel, University of Delaware, “How Norman Rockwell Made and Lost a Fortune: The Famous Artists School, 1948-1972.”

• March 14, Dane Kennedy, George Washington University, “Debating the End of the British Empire: Exceptionalism and its Critics.”

• March 21, Polly Zavadiker, University of Delaware, “Jewish Humanitarianism in Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914-1921.”

• April 4, Raz Segal, Stockton University, “Jews and Non-Jews Respond to Each Other’s Plight in the Borderlands of Southeast Europe during World War II.”

• April 18, Emma Hart, University of St. Andrews, “The Common Good in the 18th Century American Marketplace.”

• April 25, Arwen Mohun, University of Delaware, “The Perils and Opportunities of Writing Family History: Richard Dorsey Mohun’s Life in the Age of Empire.”

• May 2, Tiago Saraiva, Drexel University, “California Cloning: Oranges and the History of the Global South.”

• May 9, Anastasia Day, University of Delaware, “Gardening ‘Like A Budding Financier’: Labor, Citizenship, and Children in World War II.”