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The Contemporary History Institute presents Dr. Stephen Porter will speak on “Benevolent Empire: Humanitarianism, U.S. Power, and the World’s Dispossessed” on Thursday, Oct. 19, at 4:30 p.m. in Baker 242. Watch live or later on A&S TV The Center for Law, Justice & Culture is hosting a Meet and Greet […]

Ohio University alum Gerald Goodwin ’14Ph.D. recently published “Black and White in Vietnam” in the New York Times. The opinion piece draws on his ongoing research, part of which was completed as his 2014 doctoral dissertation, “Race in the Crucible of War: African American Soldiers and Race Relations in the […]

The Contemporary History Institute kicks off its fall lecture series with Dr. Neilesh Bose on Sept. 21. Bose is the Canada Research Chair in Global and Comparative History at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. On Oct. 19, Dr. Stephen Porter of the University of Cincinnati will be the […]

Ohio University alum Dr. Steve Taaffe discussed “Marshall & His Generals” as part of the George C. Marshall Foundation’s Marshall Legacy Series on the World Wars. Taaffe earned a Ph.D. in History and a Certificate in Contemporary History in 1995 from the College of Arts & Sciences, as well as […]

By Ingo Trauschweizer Director of the Contemporary History Institute This summer, I took on the directorship of the Contemporary History Institute, fueled by the desire to build further upon the tradition of excellent scholarship, fellowship, training, and education that CHI has offered to the university and the wider community since […]

The Contemporary History Institute and the Baker Peace Studies program present the 2017 Baker Peace Conference, “Communism: Reflections on a Violent Century,” on March 23 and 24. This conference will examine what we have learned from Communism during the century since the Bolshevik seizure of power in Russia in 1917. […]

The Contemporary History Institute sponsors Michael Meyer talking about “Covering China from the Ground Up” on Feb. 23 at 4:30 p.m. in Baker 242. Since first arriving in the country as a Peace Corps volunteer 20 years ago, Michael Meyer has witnessed and written about the transformation of China, at […]