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The Center for Law, Justice and Culture and the Making and Breaking the Law Theme announce a new History course available to all sophomores, juniors and seniors in Fall 2016. The course is HIST 3715: Sex, Crime and Deviance. This course is open to students of all majors. It will […]

The Ohio University History Department hosts its 10th Annual Undergraduate History Conference April 14-15. The conference opens on Thursday, April 14, at 6 p.m. with a panel discussion by five alumni of the program and of the conference to speak about their post-graduation and career experiences. The panel features Sara Fisher, Cyrus Moore, and […]

The Contemporary History Institute welcomes one of its own, Tyler Esno, who will be speaking on Thursday, April 21, at 4:30 pm in Baker 242. Esno, a graduate student in History, holds the Baker Peace Dissertation Fellowship this year. His talk, titled “Reagan’s Economic Cold War,” challenges accusations that the Reagan administration sought […]

Ohio University has awarded Mitchell Smith, Ph.D. student in the History Department, two prestigious grants: the Claude Kantner Graduate Fellowship and a Student Enhancement Award. Both grants were based on Smith’s dissertation project, titled “The Politics of Assent: Popular Support for America’s Vietnam War, 1965-1973.” Smith received $6,000 from the Student Enhancement Awards Program. He […]

The Society for Military History and the First Division Museum at Cantigny has awarded Seth Givens, Ph.D. student in the History Department, the Kevin J. Carroll Award for Best Graduate Student Paper in Military History. Givens received the award for “‘The Defense of Berlin Starts at the Mekong’: Lyndon Johnson and […]

Eryn Kane, Ph.D. student in the History Department, was recently invited to the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site, where she participated in a roundtable and helped advise on updating the site, including giving more attention to Rosalynn Carter. The visit was sponsored by the U.S. National Parks Service and the Jimmy […]

The History Department at Ohio University prides itself on the scholarly productivity of its faculty. Only three months into 2016, a number of its historians have received significant recognition for for their scholarship, both past and future: Dr. Miriam Shadis won both an Institute for International Education Fulbright Fellowship and an Ohio […]