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Brian Schoen publishes chapter in Cambridge History of America in the World

Brian Schoen publishes chapter in Cambridge History of America in the World

From Ohio University News Dr. Brian Schoen published a chapter in The Cambridge History of America in the World, Volume 2: The Nineteenth Century. Schoen’s contribution. “Containing Empire: The United States and the World in the Civil War Era,” tackles the crucial period from 1848 to 1877. Schoen is chair of […]

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December 22, 2021 at 10:15 amNews

Dantas looks to Brazil, most prominent slave society in the Americas, for insight on Black freedom in the Age of Abolition

Dr. Mariana Dantas

From Ohio University News When most Americans think of the history of slavery in the Americas, they think of the U.S. South, but Brazil was in fact the most prominent slave society in the Americas. Almost half of Africans trafficked through the Atlantic slave trade (over 4 million people) were […]

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November 30, 2021 at 10:15 amNews Research

History graduate student Andrew Howard wins critical language award to study Urdu

Andrew Howard at the Qutab Minar complex in Delhi.

From Ohio University News The American Councils for International Education recently awarded Ohio University graduate student Andrew Howard a Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Refresh award to study Urdu with the American Institute of India Studies. Howard is a fifth-year student pursuing a Ph.D. in History and a Contemporary History Certificate, with […]

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November 29, 2021 at 11:19 amNews Research

Jaclyn Maxwell’s new book examines socioeconomic status in the early days of Christianity

Dr. Jaclyn Maxwell at Balikligol, Sanliurfa Province, in southeastern Turkey.

From Ohio University News In her new book, Dr. Jaclyn Maxwell takes a subject that still resonates today—socioeconomic status—back to late antiquity and examines how upper-class Roman church leaders looked back upon the fishermen and manual laborers at the foundation of their religion. Simplicity and Humility in Late Antique Christian […]

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November 4, 2021 at 1:03 pmResearch

Barr-Melej examines Chile’s path amid violent upheavals of the ‘Global 1968’

Dr. Patrick Barr-Melej

From Ohio University News From Mexico City to Paris and beyond, 1968 saw massive protests, political violence, the assertion of new values, and explosions of artistic expression that together challenged dominant structures, ideologies, and sensibilities amid the Cold War. Even Ohio University would find itself closing amid riots in May […]

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October 14, 2021 at 1:32 pmResearch

Trauschweizer Edits Book on Evolution of Peace and Stability Between Allied Nations

Dr. Ingo Trauschweizer

Dr. Ingo Trauschweizer, professor of history and director of Ohio University’s Contemporary History Institute, links past and present efforts to maintain a peaceful world in his latest book, Temple of Peace: International Cooperation and Stability since 1945. Through essays by nine contributors specializing in diplomacy, Temple of Peace examines the […]

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March 18, 2021 at 2:52 pmResearch

History Faculty Maintain Scholarly Engagement during Pandemic

History Faculty Maintain Scholarly Engagement during Pandemic

In the past few months, members of the Ohio University History Department have participated in a number of online events, sharing their research and collaborating with an international community of scholars amidst a pandemic that caused the widespread cancelation of in-person events. When the COVID pandemic caused shutdowns around the […]

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March 18, 2021 at 11:07 amResearch