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Dr. Brian Schoen‘s “Southern Wealth and Global Profits: Cotton, Economic Culture, and the Coming of the Civil War” will appear in The Transnational Significance of the American Civil War, edited by Jörg Nagler, Don Doyle, and Marcus Graeser (Palgrave-Macmillan Press, 2017). Schoen is Associate Professor of History at Ohio University. The chapter examines […]

Dr. Jaclyn Maxwell, Associate Professor of History, published “Social Interactions in a Rural Monastery: Scholars, Peasants, and Monks in the Life of Hypatius“ during the 2016 summer. The scholarly work appeared as a chapter in Motions of Late Antiquity: Essays on Religion, Politics, and Society in Honor of Peter Brown, edited by Jamie Kreiner and Helmut  Reimitz […]

Dr. Ingo Trauschweizer, Associate Professor of History, recently published several pieces of scholarship based on his ongoing research in U.S. military and diplomatic history. “Adapt and Survive: NATO in the Cold War,” in Grand Strategy and Military Alliances,  is edited by Peter R. Mansoor and Williamson Murray (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, […]

Twenty participants attended Ohio Civil War Symposium, the first in a planned series of public events for alumni and community members that the Ohio University History Department is calling “History on the Move.” Held on Aug. 13 at the Sherman House Museum in Lancaster, Ohio, the Ohio Civil War Symposium […]

Dr. Mariana Dantas, Associate Professor of History, recently published two articles based on her research. “Black Women and Mothers: Social Mobility and Inheritance Strategies in Minas Gerais during the Second Half of the 18th Century” was published in Almanack 12 (January/April 2016). Through a critical examination of the possibilities of social […]

Ohio University alum Dr. Henry Franklin Tribe has published numerous biographical entries. Tribe has taught U.S. history at a number of institutions, including Rio Grande College, Shawnee State University, and Marshall University. He currently offers history courses at Ohio University-Southern. He earned a B.A. and M.A. in History from the College of Arts […]

The History Department at Ohio University announces two new courses that are being offered for the first time in Fall 2016. HIST 2905: Technology in World History Tier II Social Science Description: This course explores the ways in which technology and human society have shaped each other from prehistory to the […]