Program in Medieval Studies

Thursday, September 10, 2026

• American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism -- a Lecture by Keidrick Roy (Dartmouth College)

  Time

  5:00 - 7:00 pm

  Location

  Levis Faculty Center

  Learn how Black thinkers in early America challenged ideas of racial feudalism inspired by the medieval past. Keidrick Roy is associate professor of Government at Dartmouth College and author of *American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism* (Princeton, 2024), a prize-winning study of how medieval legacies of haunt liberal democracy in the U.S.

  • Lecture