HIST 3075: Urban African American History in the 20^th Century

MWF 12:20-1:15

The course examines the forces, events, and demographic movements that shaped the development of racially isolated, low-income African American communities in American cities in the 20th century, starting in the 19th century and continuing through the last 20 to 30 years of 20th century, with attention to trends in race, residence, and employment.  It will look at the interaction between black efforts for self-determination, public policy choices at the local, state, and federal levels, and the actions of private individuals and organizations, all of which helped to shape the residential and economic environments experienced by urban African Americans.

HIST 6010: Public History Practicum

This course offers a practical orientation to and exploration of various fields encompassed under the rubric "public history," approached through specific team projects in conjunction with local organizations. Students will develop a museum exhibit, short publication, or other historical product examining an aspect of Cincinnati history with a view to the end product being available to the general public or to be turned over to a museum or other organization to expand into a professionally finished product.

HIST 1099 001: Pregnancy, Birth, and Health: Sociological and Historical Perspectives on Reproduction

T 2:00-4:40 PM

This UC Forward Freshman Seminar will integrate historical and sociological readings on women's health with community action through service learning. Consistent with the aims of Medical Humanities, students will study the historical, social, and political issues surrounding reproductive issues - namely, childbirth, pregnancy, midwifery, prematurity, pregnancy loss and infant mortality, adoption, abortion, infertility, and birth control. We will pay special attention to differences of gender, race, and class. Students will be invited to reflect on course material through in-class exercises and assignments that develop writing skills and critical thinking. In addition, in order to fulfill the service-learning component, students will work in groups to build strategies and provide evidence-based resources for local Cincinnati advocacy organizations.

HIST 1099 002: Cold War and Atomic Tourism

MWF 1:25-2:20 PM

This seminar course will consider the establishment of the American Cold War nuclear weapons complex, the cultural, economic, environmental, and political ramifications of building this arsenal, and the recent efforts to memorialize and preserve the history of the complex. The class will specifically consider the nuclear weapons sites in the Ohio River Valley and the wide array of efforts to either save historical sites or to erase them from public memory.

The "History Out There" Speaker Series welcomes...Greg McCoy, Senior Archivist at the Procter & Gamble Heritage & Archives Center. Please join us on Wednesday, November 6, 2013, from 1:00-3:30pm in the Von Rosenstiel Reading Room in the Department of History for a conversation about the growth and development of the P&G Archives, and the work of corporate archivists within that process.

Immigration Course with Trip to New York City

Immigration, Race and Citizenship: Across the Disciplines is an Honors seminar with a study tour to New York City along with field trips around Cincinnati that provide a hands-on approach to the past and present dimensions of the immigrant experience.  Students must carry a 3.4 GPA or higher to enroll.

Course Description for HIST 3096 (meets W 3:30-5:50, Spring ’14)

No phenomenon has helped to define our modern global era more than the migration of people across national borders.  And no nation-state has been more central to the realities and imaginations of the “immigrant experience” than the United States.  This multidisciplinary seminar explores the transnational and domestic dimensions of immigration – including the related themes of race and citizenship -- in U.S. and international history from the eighteenth century through today.  Though focused primarily on the U.S., this course is as globally oriented as the lives of the people we examine.  We will systematically interrogate course themes from a diversity of academic disciplines and non-academic vocations.  These include history, film, music, journalism, literature, law, political science, sociology, and grass-roots activism.  The course, then, has two intertwined goals:

Trips to New York City and around Cincinnati

At the end of the semester (4/27-5/2), we will travel to New York City, long a critically important global and national hub for the immigrant experience.  We will dive into a range of lively phenomena central to our course themes, including different culinary cultures (aka, delicious food!); the arts; community mobilization; nongovernmental advocacy; religion; public policy; and the evolving landscapes of neighborhoods that successive waves of immigrants have shaped.  During the semester, we will explore Cincinnati’s “immigrant experience” through historical and architectural walking tours.  We will additionally explore the migration experiences of African Americans through the Underground Railroad Freedom Center.

* Trip begins one day after graduation and two days after the last day of final exams.

Costs

Total expected cost to be paid to UC is $1050. The actual cost per person for UC is $1650, but this will be offset by a $600 grant from University Honors, making the actual total expected cost $1050. All participants will receive the grant from UHP, whether in the Honors Program or not.

Costs will include airfare, accommodations, group dinners, tours and guides, and entrance fees.

Costs do not include some lunches and dinners, tips, ground transportation, any additional tours that you choose to go on, and other personal expenses (such as souvenirs).

Interested?

If interested, immediately email History professor, Dr. Stephen Porter at Stephen.Porter@uc.edu.  Enrollment may be closing very soon.  You will also need to complete a brief application form, found at http://www.uc.edu/honors/Seminars/travel/newyork.html

PIZZA AND PROFS

Come for free pizza and a chance to chat with your History professors

Majors, Minors, and Non-Majors welcomed

Wednesday, October 23rd, noon to 1:30 pm in McMicken Room 315/ Von Rosentiel Reading Room

Sponsored by the UC History Department

See the attached press release regarding a wonderful collaboration between the Cincinnati Opera, the University of Cincinnati’s Department of History led by Prof. Elizabeth Frierson, and a number of other Cincinnati cultural institutions. The year 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I, which, as Prof. Frierson notes, marks for many historians the true end of the 19th century and the true beginning of the 20^th.