The department would like to share the great news that Ryan Booth won a Society for Military History “Russell F. Weigley Graduate Student Travel Grant,” which supports participation by promising graduate students in the society’s annual meeting. Congratulations Ryan! Visit their website here!
See this excellent article in the WSU Insider about our Ph.D. student Taylor Hermsen and his research on the environmental history of the wine industry here in Washington.
The department is happy to announce that three faculty members in the History Department and RCI Program – Karen Phoenix, Matthew Unangst, and Michelle Mann – have been selected as LIFT Faculty Fellows. The LIFT Program (L.earn I.nspire F.oster T.ransform) is aimed at supporting committed educators at WSU to promote transformative student learning. It is part of WSU’s Transformational Change Initiative. Fellows join a group of educators working to share and learn techniques of student engagement and learning through Spring and Fall 2018.
A presentation of the research being done in the 161st Infantry Regiment Project is being held at the Washington National Guard Museum on 03/03/2018 at Camp Murray!
Opening remarks will be offered by Professor Orlan Svingen before presentations are given by graduate students Jared Chastain and Laura Briere.
Professor Goucher has been recognized in the College of Arts and Sciences StoryHub! Please take a minute to read and share the article here!
The History Graduation Student Association has announced the release of a new blog post! “The Daily Evergay,” is the second of a two-post series on WSU’s lesbian and gay history in the 1970s using articles from the student newspaper. GIESORC, the gay and lesbian center on campus, liked the articles and have some quotes on display in the library rotunda. Check out some there that didn’t make it into this post!
Please read here, comment, and share!
The American Historical Review published a review of Prof. Hatter’s book Citizens of Convenience: The Imperial Origins of American Nationhood on the U.S.-Canadian Border in its February 2018 issue. The review concluded that “Citizens of Convenience is a most impressive first book by a talented historian.”
See the review here!
Dr. Sutton led a discussion on Wednesday discussing the connections between President Donald Trump and white evangelicals. The talk was covered by The Daily Evergreen reporter, Sang Jung.
See the full Daily Evergreen article here for an overview of the discussion!
Graduate student Ryan Booth’s review of William Hogeland’s “Autumn of the Black Snake: The Creation of the U.S. Army and the Invasion that Opened the West” was published to H-Net.org this month. See the book review here and share!
The history department would like to share the continued recognition of Professor Sue Peabody’s current projects. Both her book, Madeleine’s Children, as well as her community based oral history project have been highlighted by The Columbian, a Vancouver based newspaper. If you are interested in following the continuing coverage of Madeleine’s Children, you can find more information through the WSU Vancouver’s marketing and communication coverage, here, or through the related coverage offered by The Columbian, here.
Her oral history project is titled “Clark County Stories: How We Came to this Place” and opened for community interaction and participation on January 27th. Further discussion will be held over the next few months relating to the establishment of Clark County and the significant growth of the regional population. If you are interested in the local research being done in Clark County then click here to follow the coverage being offered by The Columbian, or here for the coverage as it is being reported by the Camas-Washougal Post-Record.