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May 5, 2026
The ӰƵ Student Center was filled with celebration and pride as the College of Sciences and Humanities at ӰƵ recognized its top student leaders, along with one distinguished faculty member and advisor, at the annual Dean’s Undergraduate Student…
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April 17, 2026
Dr. Lindsay Starkey, a specialist in European history who teaches our French Revolution course, this semester had her students devise special in-class presentations that tied in with the History Department's commemoration of the United ӰƵs' Semiquincentennial. They were video…
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April 13, 2026
As a research department, we also put tremendous effort into the quality of our classroom instruction. Here we highlight some innovations from Dr. Liz Smith-Pryor (LSP), on her semester projects for undergraduates, as well as Dr. Kim Gruenwald (KG) and her classroom role-playing…
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March 25, 2026
ӰƵ wasn’t just where alumna Julia Ryan went to school; it was part of her life growing up in Northeast Ohio with her father, Frank X. Ryan, Ph.D., associate…
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March 23, 2026
In his continuing series of interviews with his departmental colleagues, Professor Steigmann-Gall this semester interviews Professor Kim Gruenwald, about her book that came out last Fall, Philadelphia Merchants on Western Waters, and – as our resident specialist on Colonial…
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Oct. 20, 2025
ӰƵ celebrated the 10th anniversary of its Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) with the annual Three-…
Oct. 9, 2025
In September 2025, faculty member Dr. Richard Steigmann-Gall sat down with our most recent addition to the department’s faculty, Dr. Nick Ostrum, to ask him about his career path and how he became an historian. Dr. Ostrum is a specialist in German History after WWII. He obtained…
Oct. 9, 2025
On Saturday, 12 April 2025, the Department of History hosted the first North East Ohio Regional Meeting of Phi Alpha Theta, the national history honorary, since COVID. Held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Ohio Academy of History, the conference provided an…
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July 1, 2025
In a quiet office at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, Michele Curran Cornell spends her weekdays immersed in history — not the kind found in textbooks, but the kind that impacts families and honors those who gave everything for our country. As a historian at the Department of…
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Oct. 10, 2023
Matthew Vajda, a doctoral student in the Department of History at ӰƵ, has been selected as one of only two recipients of a coveted $15,000 fellowship stipend from the for the academic…