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Café Conversation presents Dr. Katherine Jellison on “Unelected Leaders: America’s First Ladies” on Wednesday, March 11, at 5 p.m. in the Baker Front Room. Betty Ford, Michelle Obama, and Hilary Clinton—first ladies, but also powerful women. These first ladies played an important role in the political system by representing the […]

Guy Aldridge, a graduate student in History at Ohio University, has won a 2015 Summer Research Assistantship for graduate students at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. He will spend two months there this summer, assisting on a variety of the museum’s research projects and conducting his own […]

Katie Conlon, a junior majoring in HTC History, was awarded first place in the Creative Arts and Humanities category at the International Student Union’s International Research Symposium on February 20. Conlon presented on her research about the Cham Muslim minority in Cambodia, which she conducted during summer 2014 through LJC 3910: […]

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 […]

Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor and Chair of History at Ohio University, speaks at Ohio State University Feb. 25 . Jellison is the author of It’s Our Day: America’s Love Affair with the White Wedding 1945–2005 (Kansas Press 2008). Her lecture, sponsored by the Friends of the Historic Costume & Textiles […]

Café Conversations presents Dr. Chester Pach on “The Age of Reagan and Madonna” on Wednesday, Feb. 11, at 5 p.m. in the Baker Center Front Room. Madonna and President Reagan have little in common except for their influence on the 1980s. Pach, Associate Professor of History, discusses how these two […]

Dr. Brian Schoen, Associate Professor of History at Ohio University, gave an invited seminar at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Free University of Berlin. The John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies is one of the most important centers in Europe for research […]