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The Agence France Presse news service quotes Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor & Chair of History at Ohio University, in a story headlined “White House 2020 spouses eye new title: First Gentleman.” But first ladies expert Katherine Jellison, chair of the history department at Ohio University, said that while Americans for […]

Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor & Chair of History at Ohio University, moderated a panel on “Citizenship and Service: Women Veterans” at the Athens Masonic Lodge. Held on March 25 as part of Women’s History Month, the event was co-sponsored by the Ohio University’s History Department, Contemporary History Institute, Veterans and […]

Contemporary History Institute and Ohio University alumnus Dr. Steven Wills appears as a guest expert on an episode of “Coming in from the Cold,” a monthly podcast from the think tank Center for Naval Analyses. “Coming in from the Cold” explores obscure national security policy issues and incidents during the […]

Dr. Robert Ingram, Professor of History at Ohio University, delivers a talk on Thursday, April 11, at 4:30 p.m. in Baker Center 231. In recently published Reformation without End: Religion, Politics and the Past in Post-Revolutionary England (Manchester University Press, 2018), Ingram offers a radical reinterpretation of the English Reformation, writing, […]

The Ohio University History Department invited the Ohio University and broader Athens community to the 13th Annual Undergraduate History Conference on Monday and Tuesday, April 15-16, 2019. The conference opens on Monday, April 15, at 5 p.m. with a keynote lecture in Bentley Hall 215. Assistant Professor Victoria Lee will give a lecture on […]

Dr. Ingo Trauschweizer, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Contemporary History Institute, delivers a talk on Thursday, April 25, at 4:30 p.m. in Baker Center 242. Titled “Maxwell Taylor’s Cold War: From Berlin to Vietnam,” the talk draws on Trauschweizer’s recently-published book of the same title, an intellectual […]

Sitting on the steps of a colonial-era parish church in Dolores Hidalgo, a town in Mexico’s state of Guanajuato, a group of Ohio University students spent part of a beautiful March afternoon pondering what happened on that very spot nearly 210 years earlier. There, on Sept. 16, 1810, the parish’s […]