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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 […]

Four years after the start of the Syrian uprising, most Syrians find their fate hijacked by one of many undesirable options, where the lesser evil reigns supreme. In a lecture on “The Syrian Tragedy Four Years On,” Dr. Bassam Haddad addresses the causes and dynamics of the Syrian uprising turned […]

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 […]

Ohio University alum Carolyn Herbst Lewis gives a women’s history month lecture on “Between a Woman and Her Doctor: Prescriptions for Sex and Childbirth in the Twentieth Century” at the University of North Texas in March. Lewis is assistant professor of history at Grinnell College in Grinnell, IO. She earned a […]

The Contemporary History Institute speakers series presents Dr. Norman Goda, former Ohio University professor, returning Feb. 26 to speak on “Discourses on Zionism after the Holocaust: The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, 1946” at 4:30 p.m. in Baker Theater. This event is free and open to the public. Goda is the Norman […]

Aaron Brown, a doctoral student in History and a fellow with the Contemporary History Institute, published an article on “Along with a Fresh Start in Cuba, We Need a Fresh Start in Mexico” at the History News Network. American leaders have long understood the United States’ southern neighbor to be […]

The Contemporary History Institute speakers series presents Dr. Laura McEnaney on “The Problem of Caring: Dependency and the Demobilization from World War II” on Thursday, Feb. 12 in Baker 242 at 4:30 pm. McEnaney is the Nadine Austin Wood Chair in American History at Whittier University, California. She earned a […]