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The History Graduate Student Association hosts the 12th Annual History Graduate Student Conference at Ohio University on March 17-18. The program combines a keynote lecture with a series of panel presentations that showcase some of the cutting-edge, in-progress work of graduate students in the discipline of history from a variety of […]

The Contemporary History Institute and the Baker Peace Studies program present the 2017 Baker Peace Conference, “Communism: Reflections on a Violent Century,” on March 23 and 24. This conference will examine what we have learned from Communism during the century since the Bolshevik seizure of power in Russia in 1917. […]

The Contemporary History Institute sponsors Michael Meyer talking about “Covering China from the Ground Up” on Feb. 23 at 4:30 p.m. in Baker 242. Since first arriving in the country as a Peace Corps volunteer 20 years ago, Michael Meyer has witnessed and written about the transformation of China, at […]

Dr. Assan Sarr will begin the Contemporary History Institute spring semester lecture series on Thursday, Jan. 26, with a talk entitled “Gambia’s ‘Unprecedented’ 2016 Election: Accounting for the Recent Crisis in the Small West African Nation.”  The talk is in Baker 242 at 4:30 pm. Sarr has just returned from a […]

The Contemporary History Institute welcomes Dr. Randall Woods for a talk on “LBJ, The Great Society, and the Limits of Liberalism” on Feb. 2 at 4:30 p.m. in Baker Room 242. Woods, from the University of Arkansas, received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas. In 1985 he was named […]

The Center for Law, Justice & Culture announces an informal open house for all members of the Ohio University campus community from 1 – 5 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 14, to discuss the legal and political implications of the 2016 election and its results. The Open House will take place in […]

Trying to make sense of the presidential election? Still analyzing the outcome? Wondering what the future may hold with the new administration? Perhaps you want to air your own views? The History Department and Contemporary History Institute invite students, faculty, and staff to an informal forum on Tuesday, Nov. 15, […]