October 2015

Professor Jeffery Sanders gave a lecture at the Oregon Historical Association on October 15th. He was invited to speak in conjunction with an exhibition about World War II at OHS.

Professor Lawrence Hatter’s essay “To Acquire the Equivocal Attributes of American Citizen and British Subject: Nationality and Nationhood in the Early American West, 1796-1819” has been published in a new interdisciplinary volume titled The Meaning of Citizenship.

Dr. Lawrence Hatter presented a paper “Colonial Citizenship: Occupation, Naturalization, and U.S. Imperialism in the American West, 1796-1850” at the Western History Association’s 55th Annual Conference in Portland, Oregon on Friday, October 23.

The History Department and the Roots of Contemporary Issues Program sponsored an event on October 20th with Dr. Mark Swanson who spoke on “Burning Issues: The Past, Present and Future of Fire and Forest Management in the North American West.”

On October 23, Prof. Jesse Spohnholz presented on the relationship between persecution and religious toleration in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries at the Sixteenth Century Society’s annual meeting in Vancouver, Canada.

To mark its inaugural academic year, the Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation (CDSC) will host a brown-bag discussion series introducing faculty and graduate students to the fundamentals of Digital Humanities. This series aims to acquaint participants with key debates, terms, and concepts that ground Digital Humanities in various interpretive and computational methods. Theorizing DH […]

On September 24, Dr. Raymond Sun spoke to the History Club on the topic of “Commemoration, Celebration, and Politics,” looking at how American presidents from Reagan to Obama have invoked the memory of the D-Day landings to shape our collective memory of the event and use it inspire support for their present-day political agendas.

Amy E. Harrington Canfield (’04, History) has had an article published in the Pacific Northwest Quarterly, entitled “Irrigation and the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, 1902-1920.” Amy’s PhD dissertation title was ‘Pocatello Land Rush of 1902 and the Fort Hall Indian Reservation: A study of Allotment, “Surplus Lands,” and Trust-Fund Violations, 1867-1907.’ Her thesis committee consisted […]

WSU History student Kevin Schilling received a $5000 scholarship established in memory of Arthur Asante Sawe, who died tragically in a car accident on January 1, 2014. Kevin was nominated for his academic accomplishments, and because of his strong record of community involvement. Arthur was a very special young man whose life touched many people.  […]

As Jordan Frost drove through the rolling wheat fields outside of Pullman, five hours from the familiar suburban sprawl of King County, the questions began running through his head: “Where am I?” “Are we sure there’s a college out here?” Read more of Jordan Frost’s story at Cougar Success