Professor Jess Rigelhaupt and three history students, Josephine Appiah, Kelsey Matthews, and Kendall Simonpietri, presented papers at the joint meeting of the Society for the History in the Federal Government (SHFG) and Oral History Mid-Atlantic Region (OHMAR) on April 4, 2013. The panel, “Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Oral History, Digital History, and Memories of the […]
The UMW Department of History and American studies is pleased to announce a new publication by faculty member Dr. Allyson Poska. Dr. Poska is co-editor of newly published The Ashgate Research Companion to Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe (Ashgate 2013) together with Jane Couchman (York University) and Katherine A. McIver (University of Alabama). Book description: […]
Dr. Allyson Poska, Professor of History at UMW, has been awarded the Waple Professorship. The Waple Professorship is a new program supported by a generous gift from the Waple family. Three professorships have been awarded in this inaugural year, one to a leading faculty member from each of the three colleges (Arts and Sciences, Business, […]
C-SPAN is currently running a series on First Ladies, with an episode on Elizabeth Monroe airing tonight, Monday (March 18) at 9 pm eastern time. In addition to being on the television, it will stream live on line at the C-SPAN website (www.C-SPAN.com) and will be available for viewing any time after it airs. Among […]
The History and American Studies Department is happy to announce that Dr. Steven Harris’ book, Communism on Tomorrow Street: Mass Housing and Everyday Life after Stalin, was recently published by the Woodrow Wilson Center Press and the Johns Hopkins University Press. Book description: This book examines how, beginning under Khrushchev in 1953, a generation of […]
