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Professor Erik McDuffie receives Jon Gjerde Prize for best book in Midwestern History

Erik McDuffie, an associate professor in the Department of African American Studies and History, was recently awarded the Jon Gjerde Prize for best book...

Two new faculty members will join the Department of History this fall

The Department of History is pleased to announce that two new faculty members will join our ranks in the fall. Our new colleagues will add to our strengths in digital history, public history and Caribbean history.Kalani Craig Professor Craig joins us from Indiana University (Bloomington) where...

Graduate student spotlight: How Richard Young combines his love of computers with history

 Even though Richard Young is pursuing his PhD in history, he has always been interested in computers. During his undergraduate years, Young and his friend, a computer science major, would get together over weekends to tell each other what they were learning about in their respective fields of...

Graduate student spotlight: How Richard Young combines his love of computers with history 

Even though Richard Young is pursuing his PhD in history, he has always been interested in computers. During his undergraduate years, Young and his friend, a computer science major, would get...
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Izzy Sauer - Copenhagen, Denmark

Izzy Sauer studied abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark, in the summer of 2024.
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From history major to social studies and English teacher: Q&A with alumna Anne Sweeney

Meet Anne Sweeney (BA,'15, history), a social studies and English teacher at Oswego High School. She has taught a range of courses in her 10 years at Oswego, including AP Psychology, World Cultures, and U.S. History. Sweeney credits her strong critical thinking skills and being an effective...

Justin Wytmar - Italy, Belgium, the United Kingdom, and Paris

In summer 2024, Justin Wytmar travelled to several countries to conduct research for his thesis about Italy and the World's Fairs.
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History in the digital age: How digital humanities collective SourceLab is innovating new ways of publishing the past

 How do we preserve and interpret the historical record in a digital age? Traditionally, archivists collect and preserve historical sources, historians interpret them through books or documentary editions, and publishers distribute them. Today, historical sources that once would have been only...
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