Bolster gives inaugural Hayes Lecture

W. Jeffrey Bolster, associate professor of history and the James H. Hayes and Claire Short Hayes Chair in the Humanities, will present his inaugural address, “The People’s Right to Revolution: Article X of the New Hampshire Constitution,” Thursday, Feb. 5, at 3 p.m. in Murkland 110.

The James H. Hayes and Claire Short Hayes Chair in the Humanities is endowed by a generous gift to UNH’s Center for the Humanities. The chair supports teaching and research in New Hampshire history, culture and politics. Bolster will hold the chair through 2007.

A member of the UNH faculty since 1991, Bolster is the author of “Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail.” He was awarded a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in 2002-2004 to teach American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. Bolster writes frequently for the New York Times Book Reviewand his contributions to New Hampshire history include “Soldiers, Sailors, Slaves, and Ships: The Civil War Photographs of Henry P. Moore,” which he co-authored with Hilary Anderson, and “Cross-Grained and Wily Waters: A Guide to the Piscataqua Maritime Region,” which he edited.

As Hayes Chair, he is teaching New Hampshire history and working on a marine environmental history of the New England coast.