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February 22 was the 150th anniversary of Jefferson Davis's announcement of the Confederate cabinet and Abraham Lincoln's enunciation of his goals for America at a speech in Philadelphia. It was also the date on which Yale University Professor David Blight visited Hamilton to present a retrospective on American views of the Civil War. By examining a pair of 20th century authors who wrote on the topic, Blight illustrated long-term trends on the way Americans think about the Civil War and the nation.

Author Jenni Schaefer will give a keynote speech for National Eating Disorders Awareness Week at Hamilton College on Thursday, Feb. 24, at 5 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn. The talk is free and open to the public.

As part of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week at Hamilton, scores of volunteers helped cover all public mirrors  with colorful informational flyers printed with facts about body image and eating disorders. Monday's events were featured  in a news story on local NBC affiliate WKTV.  Students were also interviewed for a story on local cable station Your News Now.

Associate Professor of Psychology Jennifer Borton’s recording for the nationally syndicated Academic Minute program was featured on InsideHigherEd’s website on Feb. 22. Borton discusses why trying to suppress negative thoughts is often counterproductive on the recording that was broadcast by public radio station WAMC on Feb. 7.

Income from tuition, room and board provides 65 percent of the cost of a Hamilton education. The difference — a full 35 percent — is made up by gifts from alumni, parents and friends, both contributions made this year and income from the endowment.

Paul Wapner, director of the Global Environmental Politics Program and a professor in the School of International Service at American University, will present a lecture titled “Living through the End of Nature: The Future of Environmentalism” on Thursday, Feb. 24, at 7:30 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn. The lecture is part of the Levitt Center’s 2010-11 Speakers Series on Sustainability and is free and open to the public.  

Hamilton’s Emerson Gallery, in conjunction with the college’s art department, will screen David Wojnarowicz’s 1989 film, A Fire In My Belly, on Wednesday, Feb. 23, at 5 p.m. in the Kirner-Johnson Building’s Red Pit (Room 127). A panel discussion will follow. Both events are free and open to the public.

Brooks Haxton, author of six published collections of original poetry and professor of English at Syracuse University will present the Winslow lecture on Wednesday, Feb. 23, at 4:10 p.m. in the Science Center's Kennedy Auditorium. The lecture, titled “Candor and Wisdom: the Poetry of Early Classical Greece,” is sponsored by the Department of Classics and is free and open to the public.

Hamilton College will participate in the National Eating Disorder Awareness Week (NEDAW) from Feb. 21 through Feb. 25. The NEDAW was created to “prevent eating disorders and body image issues while reducing the stigma surrounding eating disorders and improving access to treatment.” Events will take place around campus all week and are free and open to the public.

David W. Blight, the Class of 1954 Professor of American History and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University, will lecture on Tuesday, Feb. 22, at 7 p.m., in the Hamilton College Chapel. The title of his talk is “The Civil War in Modern Memory: Robert Penn Warren and James Baldwin at the Centennial.” The lecture, sponsored by Hamilton’s History Department, is free and open to the public.