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The Roanoke Times profiles Ohio University alum Carleton Young ’80M in a story headlined “Brothers’ letters from Brandy Station reveal new Civil War insights.” Young earned an M.A. in History from the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University. In a new book Voices from the Attic: The Williamstown Boys […]

The Contemporary History Institute is pleased to announce the 2019-20 winners of the Klinder PhD Fellowship and the Baker Peace Fellowship. Klinder PhD Fellows Alex Lovelace and Samantha Peko have received Klinder PhD Fellowships for the 2019-20 academic year. The Klinder’s endowment was established in the 1990s to fund a […]

Ohio University alum Dr. Gregory Schneider earned Emporia State University’s highest faculty honor, reports the Emporia Gazette. Schneider, Professor of History at Emporia State in Kansas, earned an M.A. in History and a Certificate in Contemporary History from the College of Arts & Sciences at OHIO in 1992. Gregory Schneider is […]

Three Contemporary History Institute and Ohio University History Department-affiliated scholars recently attended Britain and the World’s 2019 conference, an annual meeting that attracts experts from around the world who research British interactions with the wider world, held this year in Kansas City. As part of a roundtable discussion inspired by […]

The Hill quotes Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor & Chair of History at Ohio University, in a story headlined “Dems obsess over finding candidate to beat Trump.” “Electability seems to be Democrats’ greatest concern, so even if many of those touting white male candidates have no problem themselves with voting for […]

Graduate student Matt Johnson, received a General and Mrs. Matthew B. Ridgway Military History Research Grant from the U.S. Army Military History Institute. Johnson, a Ph.D. candidate in History and a Contemporary History Institute student, will use the funds to conduct dissertation research at the U.S. Army Heritage and Education […]

Ohio University alum Jessica Cyders ’06, curator of the Southeast Ohio History Center, becomes the its executive director on April 15, reports the Athens Messenger. She earned a B.A. in History and Political Science from the College of Arts & Sciences. Jessica Cyders will become the new executive director on […]