On Saturday, February 29, 2020, a group of Duke History Ph.D. alumni returned to campus with Julius S. Scott (Ph.D.'86 History) to celebrate the influence and legacy of his teaching and writing on the field of Atlantic history. As a doctoral student in the History Department at Duke University in the 1980s, Scott wrote a dissertation called "The Common Wind: AfroAmerican Currents in the Age of Revolution," which reshaped the field through its study of the circulation of ideas and information in the Greater Caribbean and beyond during the era of the Haitian Revolution. As a faculty member in the department from 1988 to 1994, he worked with a remarkable cohort of graduate students who have in turn expanded and transformed the field of Atlantic history. A handful of those students — Herman Bennett, Vincent Brown, Alexander Byrd, Kathryn Dungy, Jennifer Morgan, Celia Naylor, and Claudio Saunt — spoke at the symposium about their collective work, their influences on one another, and the future of the field.

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