Join us in taking a look at the History Graduate Student Association’s first blog post of the 2018-2019 academic year here!
Welcome back HGSA and “write on” JT Menard for kicking off the blog!
Dr. Linda Heidenreich will be speaking at the lunch time talk on October 10th. Look for Linda in CUB 402 at NOON!
On Thursday, September 13, 2018, the Clements Center will welcome Matthew Sutton, the Edward R. Meyer Distinguished Professor of History at Washington State University, for his talk “Spies and unHoly Lies: How American Missionaries-Turned-Covert-Agents Helped Win World War II and Shape the Future of U.S. Intelligence.” The Intelligence Studies Project (ISP) will co-host this event.
Ryan Booth (Boag) has received the 2018 Western History Association Graduate Student Prize. This prize is designed to foster community and connection at the WHA, as well as to enhance collegial citizenship within the organization.
Congratulations Ryan!
Brian Stack’s (Boag) article “From Sodomists to Citizens: Same-Sex Sexuality and the Progressive-era Washington State Reformatory,” was accepted for publication by the Journal of the History of Sexuality. The article is based on his MA thesis.
Great work Brian!
Please take a moment to view the newly released trailer for Dr. Svingen and Naka Productions’ documentary, “In Good Faith”
Lawrence Hatter speaks to Joseph Stoltz, a historian at the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon. Topic of discussion – Negotiating Independence: American Overseas Merchant Communities in the Age of Revolution. Listen here!
“Not only does Trump get U.S.-Canada history wrong, but he just might be repeating the worst chapter of it.”
Dr. Lawrence Hatter’s article about the War of 1812 was published this morning in the Washington Post! Take a look at his perspectives article here!
The department would like to congratulate Dr. Sue Peabody at our Vancouver campus for being named the recipient of a WSU 2018 Arts and Humanities Fellowship after her proposal, Gender and Colonialism Humanities Symposium, was selected for funding!
Dr. Orlan Svingen can be found across a series of presentations offered in Montana and Idaho this summer that are dedicated towards recognizing his work with local Indian tribes! 
IN GOOD FAITH is a documentary that centers around the work of Dr. Orlan Svingen and his ongoing work with the Mixed Band of Shoshone, Bannock and Sheep Eater people of the Fort Hall Indian reservation near Pocatello, Idaho. Through his decades of work with Indian tribes across the U.S., Dr. Svingen has developed strong relationships at Fort Hall and forged the creation of Indian history field schools that are conducted in Central Idaho
and Southwestern Montana.
In Good Faith is narrated by Forrest Goodluck, a well known Native American actor you may recognize from The Revenant! There will be a screening of his documentary in both Montana and Idaho later this summer!