April 20, 2010 Library Gallery 4 p.m. Annual Lipitz Lecture The Historian: Citizen of the World, and an Archive Mouse Professor James S. Grubb, Department of History, UMBC Historians strive to be citizens of the world, crossing cultural boundaries in time to explore the values and structures of peoples who are strangers to us. Focusing on the Italian Renaissance, James Grubb's work looks at middling folk five hundred years past, those neither powerful nor marginalized, who lived their days as best they could and left few traces in the history books. He reminds us that the task of reconstructing the ordinary can only take place in the archives, those cathedrals of the dead, by painstakingly assembling the scattered shards of forgotten lives. Sponsors: College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and the Dresher Center for the Humanities.