Associate Professor W. Puck Brecher of the Department of History had his latest book published: “Honored and Dishonored Guests – Westerners in Wartime Japan” by Harvard University Press. Brecher credits Nicholas, Patrick and Michael Frank who entrusted him with the family’s collection of journals, letters, memoirs, interviews, and photos from the war yeas and earlier. […]
The Department of History is happy to announce that PhD student David Bolingbroke was awarded the Graduate School’s Arnold and Julia Greenwell Memorial Scholarship for Social Sciences and Humanities for the 2017/18 academic year. Bolingbroke plans to use the $1000 scholarship to fund research travel towards completion of his dissertation directed by Jeff Sanders. Congratulations […]
“Coke Isn’t Dope! The Ecological Limits of Coca-Cola Capitalism” is the subject Dr. Bart Elmore of The Ohio State University will speak on at this lecture sponsored by the George and Bernadine Converse Historical Endowment. The Coca-Cola Company sells billions of servings daily in over 190 countries worldwide. Additional sponsors for this lecture are the Roots […]
The University of Virginia Press has published Dr. Lawrence Hatter’s book Citizens of Convenience: The Imperial Origins of American Nationhood on the U.S.-Canadian Border. Dr. Hatter’s book received the 2016 Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for ‘an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies.
Lawrence Hatter: “Stop dismissing Standing Rock Sioux as dupes” was published in Grand Forks Herald December 30. Hatter states: “Sinister forces are at work in North Dakota. At least that was the claim of the state’s former lieutenant governor, whose paranoid fears were right out of the eighteenth century. Taking a leaf from a political […]