Professor Kawamura just published this book, Emperor Hirohito and the Pacific War. Information on the book here.

Professor Sue Peabody will deliver an invited paper, “S’affranchir ou s’enraciner : le droit de la migration depuis les colonies françaises vers la métropole à l’époque de l’esclavage [Emancipation or Integration?: Migration Rights from the French Colonies towards Mainland France in the Age of Slavery]” for an international interdisciplinary colloquium, “Archeology of Migrations,” sponsored by the Institut national de recherches archéologiques preventives (National Institute for Archeological Preservation Research), at the Musée de l’Immigration in Paris on Friday, November 13, 2015.

Karen Phoenix will be presenting a paper “Recreation as Re-Creation: The US Young Women’s Christian Association, the Manila YWCA, and Physical Fitness/Recreation as Education,” at the History of Education Society annual meeting in St. Louis this weekend.

Professor Hatter has been invited to deliver the inaugural Stanley Pargellis Lecture in Early American History at the University of Nevada on November 5. He will speak about “The Colonial History of the Early Republic”

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.