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Eventful summer for History Professor

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Professor Peter Boag participated in a variety of public presentations during the summer. On June 13, he delivered the University of Oregon History department’s graduation commencement address in Eugene, Oregon. Peter is a 1988 Oregon PhD, and gave an upbeat talk about his time in the History Department there long ago.  He also mentioned the many changes the UO History Department and faculty have experienced in the last 30 years.

Professor Boag led the inaugural “Pride Forever: Portland LGBTQ History Walking Tour” in Portland on June 25. This was co-sponsored by Know Your City and the Gay and Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest.   The tour began and ended at the Darcelle XV Showplace in Portland’s Old Town.  The tour also included a variety of sites dating from 1900 to the present that are significant to local, regional and national LGBTQ history.

Prior to the “Pride Forever” tour, Dr. Boag could be seen on television as a talking head in the Oregon Experience episode “Darcell XV.”  This is an Oregon Public Broadcasting production that tells the story of Walter Cole, creator of the Darcelle persona, set against the LGBTQ history of Portland.  Professor Boag also consulted on the historical background for the film.

Department of History Open House August 18

In conjunction with the College of Arts and Sciences’ Week of Welcome, the Department of History will host an open house for incoming History students on August 18, 2016.

WHEN: August 18 at 3:30 p.m.

WHERE: Room 301 Wilson-Short Hall (directly across from the Compton Union Building)

WHAT:  Meet and visit with History faculty and graduate students

Light refreshments will be served.

Graduate Student Jennifer Binczewski awarded grant for travel to Belgium

Jennifer BinczewskiJennifer Binczewski has been awarded a grant from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women to travel to present at the international and interdisciplinary conference, the Sixteenth Century Society & Conference, next month in Bruges, Belgium. Her paper is titled “Bestowed Upon God: The Movements of Catholic Children in Post-Reformation England and Beyond.”

Congratulations, Jennifer!

 

Fourth Annual Daylight Creek Gathering July 15-16

This year marks the fourth annual Daylight Creek Gathering in Virginia City, Montana. Commemorating the Treaty of September 24, 1868 with the Mixed Band of Shoshone, Bannock, and Sheepeater people and Tendoy’s Cession Document of January 3, 1870, forms the foundation of this annual event.

The 2015 Gathering celebrated the dedication of Tendoy Park in Virginia City, and this year’s event will feature presentations by members of the John and Janet Creighton Public History Field School, focusing on preliminary interpretive plans for Tendoy Park.

The three-week (May 23-June 11, 2016)  field school (week one: Virginia City; week two: Salmon, Idaho; week three: Fort Hall Indian Reservation) put 10 WSU students into a collaborative public history setting where they conducted research, designed, and produced preliminary interpretive plans for Tendoy Park.

Allison Bremmeyer, Jared Chastain, and Alicia Woodard will present the field school’s student “deliverables” to tribal and municipal stakeholders at a public presentation at the Madison County Courthouse on Saturday, July 16, 2016. Their presentation represents public consultation with the affected parties.

For more information, see the Year 4 Poster for this event.  Contact can be made with Leo Arriwite (208) 478-4041 or Theresa Bache at (208) 236-1187.

 

Gilder Lehrman History Teacher of the Year named

Conditt_Mrs.%20Shari625[1]We are pleased to announce that former Masters student, Sharon  ‘Shari’ Conditt (2013), has been named the Gilder Lehrman History Teacher of the Year for Washington State.  She is also among the 53 finalists for the National History Teacher of the Year!  Congratulations, Shari!  Laurie Mercier, PhD, of the WSU Vancouver campus is Shari’s Masters advisor.  Shari’s thesis title is: The Women of Home and Equality: Constructing Their Own Utopias in the Pacific Northwest.

Shari teaches Advanced Placement (AP) United States History and AP United States Government and Politics at Woodland High School in western Washington.

 

History 434 “Revolutions in Latin America” course

yvonne-berliner_114x132A three-credit course is being offered for Fall 2016 titled “Revolutions in Latin America, History 434.”  The instructor is Dr. Y. Berliner who is very knowledgeable in all things Latin American!   If you are interested in this topic and want to learn more from an expert in the field, do not wait to enroll.  See the flyer Revolutions-in-LatinAmerica.

Dr. Berliner’s biographical information can be found here.

 

2016 Public History Field School Photos and News

Dr. Orlan Svingen and several WSU graduate students participated in the 2016 Public History Field School that began May 23.  The first leg of the journey was at Virginia City, Montana.  The field school provided hands-on experiential learning opportunities. Tribal specialists from Virginia City, Montana and Salmon, Idaho participated.  See more information here.

These are some field school students at the Big Hole River near Twin Bridges, Montana.  Nearby was the grave of Tendoy’s sister.

Big Hole River

This photo shows more field school students on the banks of the Madison River just outside of Ennis, Montana. Leo Ariwite took them on a “tipi ring” survey immediately in the background.

Madison River

These are the Beaverhead Mountains as seen from the work site in Salmon, Idaho at the Sacajawea Interpretive Center.

Beaverhead Mountains