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The Contemporary History Institute has a full slate of public talks and discussions on offer this fall semester. The institute welcomes back two alumni (one History Ph.D. and one History B.A.) and brings a host of renowned scholars and authors to the Ohio University campus. Thursday, Sept. 12: CHI talk […]

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 […]

The Contemporary History Institute welcomes leading world historian and current American Historical Association president Dr. John R. McNeill on April 15 at 10 a.m. in Baker 242. He will present “Elephant Tusk and Bison Hide: The Global Environment and the Industrial Revolution, 1800-1920” as part of CHI’s spring semester speaker […]

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 […]

The Contemporary History Institute presents a screening of an episode of Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s documentary, The Vietnam War on March 2, from 1 to 3:30 p.m. in Bentley 124. CHI will screen episode five of the Burns and Novick series, titled ‘This Is What We Do’ (July 1967-December […]

Dr. Joshua Hill, Assistant Professor of History at Ohio University, will deliver a talk on Thursday March 7 at 4:30pm in Baker Center 242. In his recently published Voting as a Rite: A History of Elections in Modern China (Harvard University Press), Hill covers the period from the Opium War to the present […]