J.T. Menard earned his BA in History in 2015. He has written an article published in the current issue of Columbia magazine. “Roosevelt’s Grand Experiment: The Civilian Conservation Corps in the Northwest” was Menard’s paper for History 469. He conducted the research using WSU’s Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections (MASC) sources under the guidance of […]
Dr. Sutton is writing a book entitled “(Un)Holy Spies: Religion and Espionage in World War II.” He was recently interviewed by a Spokesman-Review reporter regarding John Birch, who was a missionary-turned-spy in World War II China.
Professor Crawford Gribben of Queen’s University Belfast, will speak on “Radical Religion, Republican Politics, and the Experience of Defeat: John Owen’s Restoration” on September 29 at 3 p.m. in the Bundy Reading Room, Avery Hall, WSU Pullman. The presentation will argue that strategies for the survival of radical religion and republican politics contributed to the […]
Dr. Steven Kale, Chair of the Department of History, will present a lecture “French Secularism as a Target for Jihad” on September 27, 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. in Todd Hall 276. This lecture is free and open to the public. This is part of the Asia Program Lecture Series as it continues its focus on […]
The History Graduate Student Association is busy this fall sponsoring informative colloquiums. The next event will be October 10. Read the flyer for contact information and previous months’ colloquiums.
A free, public lecture about Islamic contributions to Western civilization will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 21, in Todd Hall 216 at Washington State University. Charles Weller, WSU clinical assistant professor of history, will discuss how the historical interdependence of people and culture promotes mutual understanding, peace and cooperation. This view suggests a fundamental […]
Hallie Meredith, Jeffrey C. Sanders, and Brianna Webb Tuesday, September 20th from 3:30pm – 5:00pm in the CDSC (Holland Library, 4th Floor). Public talk details: This past summer the CDSC sponsored its first three fellowship projects at the WSU Pullman campus. The six-week summer fellowships offer faculty and graduate students project planning assistance along with technical […]
A free, public lecture about Islamic contributions to Western civilization will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 21, in Todd Hall 216 at Washington State University. Charles Weller, WSU clinical assistant professor of history, will discuss how the historical interdependence of people and culture promotes mutual understanding, peace and cooperation. This view suggests a fundamental […]
History faculty representatives will be participating in the Meet your Major Fair on September 22, 2016 in Butch’s Den, on the Lower Level of the Compton Union Building (CUB). The Fair will begin at 1:00 p.m. and culminate at 4:00 p.m. This event is geared toward undergraduate student recruitment and helping students identify the major […]
WSU History’s Ph.D. student, Dong Jo Shin, has published his first article, “Factional Violence and Ethnic Relations in a Korean Borderland: Mao Yuanxin’s Cultural Revolution in Yanbian, 1966-1968,” in a special issue dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Cultural Revolution of Modern China Studies, 23:2 (2016): 141-62. Congratulations to Dong Jo and to his […]