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Ohio University has awarded Mitchell Smith, Ph.D. student in the History Department, two prestigious grants: the Claude Kantner Graduate Fellowship and a Student Enhancement Award. Both grants were based on Smith’s dissertation project, titled “The Politics of Assent: Popular Support for America’s Vietnam War, 1965-1973.” Smith received $6,000 from the Student Enhancement Awards Program. He […]

Dr. Chester Pach, Associate Professor of History at Ohio University, wrote an opinion piece for a New York Times Room for Debate feature in the New York Times about the Vietnam War 40 years after its conclusion. “Forty years ago, after a decade of war with the French, and a […]

The Department of History is pleased to announce that a number of its undergraduate and graduate students have been selected for a variety of awards, fellowships, and other honors. Committed to academic rigor, professional development, and community engagement, the department takes great pride as advisers and as faculty members in the […]

The 2015 Baker Peace Conference on “The Vietnam War: A Fifty-Year Retrospective” on March 26 and 27. A panel on The Military Commitment of Troops is Friday, March 27,  at 10 a.m. in Nelson Commons. The panel features: Moderator – Dr. Clarence Wyatt, Monmouth College Dr. George C. Herring, University […]

Save the Date for the 2015 Baker Peace Conference “The Vietnam War: A Fifty-Year Retrospective” on March 26 and 27. The keynote speaker is Dr. Fredrik Logevall, who opens the conference on Thursday, March 26, at 7:30 pm in Baker 240/242. Logevall’s talk is on “Embers of War: The Meaning of […]

Café Conversations presents Dr. Chester Pach on “The Age of Reagan and Madonna” on Wednesday, Feb. 11, at 5 p.m. in the Baker Center Front Room. Madonna and President Reagan have little in common except for their influence on the 1980s. Pach, Associate Professor of History, discusses how these two […]

Gerald Goodwin has been awarded the Baker Peace Fellowship for 2013-14. He is completing his dissertation that focuses on the experiences of African Americans in the military during the Vietnam era (1965-1973) and more specifically the ways in which issues deriving from “race” shaped that experience. His research looks at […]