Laurier History Department

A history of what has become a hot button issue: the straw! Plastic straws were only a small part of a 7,000 year history!

Sip On This: A Brief History Of The Straw The journey of how man’s most loyal drinking companion for the last 700 years became 2018’s biggest villain.

ONE WEEK! Incoming students move into Laurier Residences starting Aug. 30 in Waterloo and Sept. 1 in Brantford. 🏡

Find out what to pack, where to go and how to plan ahead to make your first day GOLDEN! https://ow.ly/bsf050SX4QL

Course registration doesn't just start on the day you register. It's all about the preparation.

• Graduate students: May 15
• Incoming first-year: June 26 at 3 p.m.
• Returning & transfer: July 2 to July 5

Find the course registration guide ➡️ https://ow.ly/RW0X50ROLNH

Did you know that we have an undergraduate journal? Come check out and read the top fourth-year seminar papers from this year! Congratulations to the authors on their excellent work!

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"Rent parties reached their peak during the years of the Great Depression, but some were still being thrown after World War II. Billie Holiday continued to perform “Strange Fruit,” a meditation on lynchings. For hundreds of thousands of Black people, rent parties were much more than an exuberant pastime well into the 1950s. They were a gasp of freedom in a country that doubled as a chokehold."

The Rent Was Too High So They Threw a Party (Gift Article) During the Harlem Renaissance, some Black people hosted rent parties, celebrations with an undercurrent of desperation in the face of racism and discrimination.