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:This Ashgate Research […]
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 Soviet citizens […]
A class session from Associate Professor Jeffrey McClurken’s “U.S. History in Film” course will air on C-SPAN 3 on Saturday, Feb. 2 at 8 p.m. and midnight and on Sunday, Feb. 3 at 1 p.m.The class session, focused on the film “Gone With the Wind,” was filmed at UMW in October 2012. Jeffrey McClurken evaluates […]
