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From Ohio University News Dr. Brian Schoen published a chapter in The Cambridge History of America in the World, Volume 2: The Nineteenth Century. Schoen’s contribution. “Containing Empire: The United States and the World in the Civil War Era,” tackles the crucial period from 1848 to 1877. Schoen is chair of […]

Editor’s Note: The Happy Beginnings series features recent College of Arts & Sciences graduates who are getting started in careers, graduate school and service. From Ohio University News Ohio University alumnus Ryan Crowley ’19 is set to earn a Juris Doctor in 2022 from Widener University Delaware Law School. After […]

Editor’s Note: The Happy Beginnings series features recent College of Arts & Sciences graduates who are getting started in careers, graduate school and service. See more Fall 2021 commencement stories. Jane Dreher approaches Fall 2021 Commencement confident about her plans and with a clear sense of how to analyze the […]

From Ohio University News When most Americans think of the history of slavery in the Americas, they think of the U.S. South, but Brazil was in fact the most prominent slave society in the Americas. Almost half of Africans trafficked through the Atlantic slave trade (over 4 million people) were […]

From Ohio University News The American Councils for International Education recently awarded Ohio University graduate student Andrew Howard a Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Refresh award to study Urdu with the American Institute of India Studies. Howard is a fifth-year student pursuing a Ph.D. in History and a Contemporary History Certificate, with […]

From Ohio University News With only five short weeks of preparation, the Ohio University Mock Trial Team competed at Ohio State University’s Scarlet and Grey Mock Trial Tournament in October, with two first-time competitors winning awards. The tournament was conducted in-person, OHIO’s first in-person tournament since February 2020. OHIO Mock […]

From Ohio University News In her new book, Dr. Jaclyn Maxwell takes a subject that still resonates today—socioeconomic status—back to late antiquity and examines how upper-class Roman church leaders looked back upon the fishermen and manual laborers at the foundation of their religion. Simplicity and Humility in Late Antique Christian […]