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Hanford History Lecture Series Mar. 27 at Tri-Cities Campus

March 27, 2017 pguptill

“Evolution from Weapons Production to Environmental Cleanup, Current Challenges, and Successes Realized to Date” is the subject the Department of Energy’s Director of Public Affairs, Carrie Meyer, will speak about at 3:00 p.m. March 27 at the Tri-Cities Campus. Dr. Meyer is a WSU Alumna, with 23 years’ experience in communications, marketing, information management and public affairs in government, engineering, and nuclear power industries.

See the full article with more information here.

Jacki Tyler, 2015 PhD recipient, returns to E. Washington

March 24, 2017 pguptill

Jacki Hedlund Tyler (Ph.D. 2015) has been serving a one-year position in public and U.S. history at the University of North Alabama.

She has accepted a continuing position as Director of Social Studies Education in the Department of History at Eastern Washington University, Cheney, Washington.

Dr. Charles Weller has two articles published

March 24, 2017 pguptill

“Overturning Civil Rights? Trump’s Immigration-Deportation Policies and White Nationalist-Racist Revival,” The Islamic Monthly, March 8, 2017.

“Islam in the life of [the] Kazakhs: From conversion to current times,” Central Asian Analytical Network, March 10, 2017 , published in both English and Russian.

“Ambitions and Intellect: Pioneering Women at Washington State University

March 22, 2017 pguptill

A new exhibit in WSU’s Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections (MASC), “Ambitions and Intellect: Pioneering Women at WSU,” explores the stories of early women contributors at the fledgling college. It is part of this year’s events around Women’s History Month and the Common Reading book “I Am Malala.” An opening reception is planned from 3-4:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 22, in the MASC lobby. Please join us.

Before 1900, women were denied entrance to many Eastern colleges, which were strictly for men only. But in the western states, where there were fewer people, many colleges were coeducational, including Washington Agricultural College and School of Science. The small land-grant college in farm country did something the larger Eastern universities would not do: give women the chance to use their intellect and demonstrate the benefits of higher education for all.

The exhibit also highlights women’s determination to get an education and how they made their mark in society afterward.

“Countless contributions and achievements of women are absent from our historical memory,” said Lipi Turner-Rahman, exhibit curator and WSU Libraries’ Kimble database coordinator. “The 1862 Morrill Act helped remove educational barriers for women in Washington State at a time when most women were not encouraged to go to college.”

For more information about the exhibit, contact Turner-Rahman at ilipi@wsu.edu.

Dr. Charles Weller translated & edited “The Agony of Socialism: Kazakh Memoirs of the Soviet Past”

March 13, 2017 pguptill

Dr. Weller translated, edited and published a book by a senior Kazakh scholar, Garifolla Yesim, The Agony of Socialism: Kazakh Memoirs of the Soviet Past (Asia Research Associates, 2017). The book was peer reviewed in Kazakhstan before its original publication in Kazakh and Russian. Dr. Raymond Sun, along with one other senior Soviet/Central Asian scholar, reviewed and endorsed the English translation before publication. Along with supplying a brief bibliography and recommended reading list and providing editorial clarifications in footnotes, Weller wrote a brief (3-pp) ‘Editorial Preface’ for it. Following is the link to the book: https://www.amazon.com/Agony-Socialism-Kazakh-Memoirs-Soviet/dp/0979495717/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1489215168&sr=8-1&keywords=the+agony+of+socialism.

Dr. Weller is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Roots of Contemporary Issues program (History 105/305). Read more about Dr. Weller here.

March 15-18 “Legacies of the Manhattan Project Conference” Coming Soon

March 10, 2017 pguptill

The Legacies of the Manhattan Project: Reflections on 75 years of a Nuclear World Conference will be held in Richland, Washington from March 15-18.

The conference will focus on the history of the Hanford nuclear production facilities and the site’s impact on the Tri Cities area. We expect papers on such topics as: the environmental legacies of nuclear materials production; the politics of science, national security, and the state; atomic diplomacy and the Cold War, among others. See the website for registration, as well as the schedule.

Jillian Gardner-Andrews (j.gardner-andrews@tricity.wsu.edu), the Project Coordinator, provided an update on the event:

“We are getting closer and closer to the start of the Legacies of the Manhattan Project Conference, and we hope that all of you are as excited as we are. I wanted to take a moment to let all of you know about different events that we have recently added to the conference program.

“The first event is a historic walk on Richland’s Urban Greenbelt Trail (UGT), a 3.2 mile stroll through the city’s center. Along the way, we’ll stop and look at photos of what the city looked like before the Manhattan Project as well as during its government-owned days. This tour is graciously being led by Richland Parks and Recreation Commission volunteer Nancy Doran. The tour is free and open to the public, will begin at 3:00 on Wednesday March 15^th in the lobby of the Richland Red Lion Hotel, and is approximately two hours long. The forecast for Wednesday afternoon is 65 degrees and partly cloudy which will be a nice change from the winter we had. If you are interested in participating in this historic walk before the kick off of our Legacies Conference, please contact me via email or at (509) 372-7447.

“The second event is a tour of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) facilities in North Richland. LIGO is a large-scale physics experiment and observatory to detect cosmic gravitational waves and to develop gravitational-wave observations as an astronomical tool. Two large observatories were built in the United States with the aim of detecting gravitational waves by laser interferometry. The LIGO search conducted from September, 2015 to January, 2016 resulted in the first observation of gravitational waves. This tour which will begin at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday March 16 is being sponsored by the Columbia Chapter of the Health Physics Society. Cost for this tour is $7 (cash or check only). If you are interested in attending this tour please RSVP to Brett Rosenberg at CCHPSExec@gmail.com by close of business on Tuesday, March 14. The LIGO observatory has a limit to the number of people they can host so registration will fill up quickly. Tour attendees will need to leave the Richland Red Lion between 5:15-5:30 on Thursday as it is a bit of a drive out to the LIGO Hanford Observatory. Please let Brett know if you are able to shuttle other conference participants or if you are in need of a ride out to the observatory. The link below provides navigational tips for getting to the LIGO facilities.

https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/WA/page/lho-driving-directions

“Please let me know if you have any questions about either of these events or the conference itself. Also, feel free to share this information with other individuals who may be interested.”

Dr. Sean Wempe’s second article published

March 10, 2017 pguptill

“Peripheral Players? German Colonial Interests, The Press, and the Spirit of Locarno,” has been published in The International History Review, DOI: 10.1080/07075332.2017.1298530. The abstract of the article can be found here.

Dr. Wempe is an instructor for the Roots of Contemporary Issues Program (History 105). More information can be found on the “Instructor” page.

Annie Marggraf, Vancouver campus alumna, will be on JEOPARDY!

March 7, 2017 pguptill

WSU Alumna, Annie Marggraf (BA 2016), will appear on the quiz show JEOPARDY ! Wednesday, March 8. Cheer her on as she dazzles Alex Trebek and the competition with her wit and knowledge.

For the Eastern Washington television viewing area, Jeopardy! airs on Channel 6 (Q6) at 7:00 p.m. For the Vancouver/Portland area, it will be on Channel 2 KATU at 7:00 p.m.

Photo courtesy of Jeopardy Productions.

Greg Atkins, PhD candidate, gives talk at “Suds With a Scholar” event

March 6, 2017 pguptill

The Department of History’s very own Greg Atkins gave a talk about Psychiana, Moscow’s mail-order religion. The definition: “Psychiana was a New Thought denomination created in 1928 by Frank Bruce Robinson (1886-1948), with headquarters in Moscow, Idaho. It began and largely remained a mail-order enterprise, recruiting people through advertising in popular magazines and through direct mail solicitations.” See more about Psychiana as described and defined by Wikipedia.

Atkins shared his research on Frank Robinson at a Latah County Historical Society-sponsored event: “Suds With a Scholar” Saturday, March 4 in Moscow, Idaho. Atkins says “Up until the time you recognized the spirit of God in you, you failed at everything you did; you existed but your life was a life of opposition.” See the article from the Moscow-Pullman Daily News.

See the link to the Cultural Institute’s information about Psychiana and Frank Robinson in Moscow, Idaho.

Some of the event attendees March 4, 2017.

Trevor Bond defended PhD Dissertation successfully

March 6, 2017 pguptill

“Why Should We Have To Buy Our Own Things Back? The Struggle Over The Spalding-Allen Collection” is the title of Trevor Bond’s dissertation he defended on February 14, 2017. Dr. Bond’s dissertation abstract can be found here.

Dr. Trevor James Bond is the Co-Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation, Associate Dean for Digital Initiatives and Special Collections at the Washington State University Libraries.

Bond received his Master’s in Library and Information Science (MLIS, 1998) with a specialization in Archives and Preservation Management and a Masters in Ancient History (MA, 1994) at UCLA. In 2009, he was promoted to the rank of Librarian IV/Professor.