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The Baker Peace Conference on March 20 and 21 focuses on the 100-year anniversary of the outbreak of what was then referred to as “The War to End All Wars.” The 2014 Baker Peace Conference is an annual event that brings together a diverse group of leading experts to discuss a […]

The 17th Annual Lazaroff Lecture, “Who was a Jew in the Middle Ages? Conversos, Jews and the Question of Religious Identity,” features Dr. Jonathan Ray of Georgetown University on Thursday, March 27, at 7:30 p.m. in Baker Center Ballroom A. A reception will follow. The event is free and open to […]

Dr. Steve Estes will be speaking on “The Promised Land?: The American South Since the Civil Rights Era” on Thursday, April 3 at 4:30 pm in Baker 242. Estes is a professor of History at Sonoma State University in California. He earned a B.A. in history and economics from Rice […]

The Eight Annual Undergraduate History Conference kicks off Wednesday, April 16, with a plenary talk by Dr. Jessica Roney at 5:30 p.m. in the Lindley Room at the Ohio University Inn. Student presentations follow in Thursday, April 17. Roney will discuss “Setting Up for Themselves: Voluntarism, Democracy & Citizenship in […]

By EJ Schodzinski from Compass ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio – Dr. Brian Schoen, Associate Professor of History at Ohio University, will give a presentation on secession and the origins of the Civil War at the University’s Eastern Campus on Thursday, April 17, at 7 p.m. in Room 219. In his talk […]

Dr. James Waite, First Secretary (Political) at the New Zealand Embassy in Washington, D.C., returns to Ohio University with the Contemporary History Institute Guest Lecture Series on Friday, April 18, at 4:30 p.m. in Baker 247. His talk is on “New Zealand, the United States, and the Asia Pacific Century: a […]

Dr. James Sparrow talks about his newest work, New Leviathan: Sovereign America & the Foundations of Rule in the Atomic Age, on Thursday, April 24, at 4:30 p.m. in Baker 242. Sparrow is Associate Professor of U.S. History at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on the state and social citizenship […]