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While the Monuments Men movie depicts German looting of Europe’s cultural treasures, History Ph.D. student Seth Givens writes about U.S. looting of German civilian possessions. Givens, a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department, published “Liberating the Germans: The US Army and Looting in Germany during the Second World War,” in […]

Dr. Alonzo L. Hamby, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at Ohio University College of Arts & Sciences, wrote an opinion article for Bloomberg.com. From the early 20th century to the present day, the history of American liberalism has centered on strong presidents ramming “progressive” legislation through hesitant Congresses. Theodore Roosevelt […]

By Dina Berliner, Post Professor Günther Heydemann, a chair in contemporary history at the University of Leipzig and the director of the Hannah Arendt Institute in Dresden, visited Scripps Hall on Tuesday night to give a lecture. The lecture, titled “The Difficult Road from Dictatorship to Democracy: The Delayed Revolution […]

By Corinne Colbert  In his famous “Checkers” speech, Richard Nixon—then a senator from California and Dwight Eisenhower’s troubled running mate in the 1952 presidential election—downplayed his connection to a cabal of extremely wealthy donors. He portrayed himself as a middle-class guy whose wife wore “a respectable Republican cloth coat” and […]

Pin-up girls or women embodying FDR’s Four Freedoms worth fighting for—World War II poster girls had little control in propaganda, said Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor and Interim Chair of History, at a recent conference at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom on “Lessons of War: Gender History and the Second […]

Last Monday it appeared the United States was marching toward possible military action against Syria. Fast forward just four days, and top diplomats from the United States and Russia are in Geneva trying to hammer out an agreement about how to secure Syria’s chemical weapons – the success of which […]

Matt Jacobs, a Ph.D. student in History at Ohio University who studies 20th century U.S. foreign policy, wrote a commentary for History News Network on the debate over the U.S. role in Syria. His area of study is 20th century foreign relations and his research interest is U.S. Public Diplomacy […]