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AFP global news service quoted Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor & Chair of History at Ohio University, in a story headlined in “Newly assertive Melania Trump puts the first back in First Lady.” Washington (AFP) – In the White House this week, Trump’s the boss. Melania Trump, that is. … And Katherine […]

By George Shea Veterans are not just ex-warriors when they come home from war. Veterans are neighbors, friends, family members and community members. We share a common bond as civilians in the United States, but for many of us, we cannot relate to the events that our brothers in arms […]

History graduate student Aaron Brown authored a column at the History News Network  headlined “The Militarization of the US-Mexico Border is Not a New Idea.” Brown is pursuing a PhD in history and a Contemporary History Certificate at Ohio University. President Trump has said that as many as 15,000 U.S. […]

The New York Times quoted Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor & Chair of History at Ohio University, in a story headlined “A White House Challenge: Balancing the Roles of the First Lady and First Daughter.” Historians have struggled to place the relationship between the two women in context. Katherine Jellison, a professor […]

Ohio University alum Raymond Haberski Jr. is Professor of History, Director of American Studies, and Director of the Institute for American Thought at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). During the 2008–2009 academic year he held the Fulbright Danish Distinguished Chair in American Studies. Haberski helped found the Society for U.S. […]

Ohio University history professor Mirna Zakic will talk about her forthcoming article “Hidden in Plain Sight: Jewish Children’s Survival in the Occupied Serbian Banat.” The article is related to research that Zakic conducted for her recently published book Ethnic Germans and National Socialism in Yugoslavia in World War II. Zakic’s talk on Thursday, […]

Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor & Chair of History at Ohio University, was quoted in a Georgia Newsday story headlined “Melania Trump won’t hit campaign trail despite president’s blitz.” Melania Trump’s speech at the 2016 Republican convention was criticized for sounding like one Michelle Obama gave eight years before. That speech […]