Post Tagged with: "World War II"

Dr. Amritjit Singh, Langston Hughes Professor of English at Ohio University, is on a Fulbright-Nehru Award at the University of Delhi in India this academic year. Singh is working on a personal and historical book tentatively titled “At Home Abroad: The Making of Minority Consciousness in India and the United […]

Note: This event is delayed slightly and will begin shortly after 5 p.m. The Contemporary History Institute presents Dr. Wendy Lower on “Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields” on Thursday, Sept. 18, at 4:30 pm in Baker 242. Lower is the John K. Roth Chair of History […]

Nuremberg, Germany, 1942. “Mother gave private lessons in English, so Rita would come to our house, and once a week they would have lessons,” explained Professor Emerita Marie-Claire Wrage. “One day my mother realized she was upset, and Rita said she was trying to get out of the country, but […]

Dr. Mirna Zakić, Assistant Professor of History, completed a postdoctoral fellowship from the Volkswagen Foundation during 2013-14 in residence at Germany’s Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies. Her current research focuses on ethnic German communities in Southeast Europe, the transnational spread of National Socialist ideology, and the interplay of ideology and […]

Parkersburg News and Sentinel reporter Jody Murphy captured the tale of Dr. Gifford Doxsee, a U.S. Army veteran and former Ohio University Professor of History. Doxsee spoke on Veterans Day at the Belpre Senior Center about his time as a POW in a German camp in the later days of […]

The Contemporary History Institute welcomes Dr. Robert M. Citino, who will speak on “Nine Days that Shook the World” on Thursday, Nov. 7, at 4:30 p.m. in Baker 242. Citino is one of America’s most distinguished military historians and the Vice President of the Society for Military History. He is […]

If it had signed the various international human rights treaties put forth since two world wars dominated the 20th century world stage, “the United States would be a more generous nation today.” Yet many of the countries that did sign the treaties haven’t enforced them, continued Bert B. Lockwood, Director […]