Welcome Back Dr. McGee! By: Alberto Jones Professor Holly McGee recently returned from seven months in South Africa where she led the History Department’s first study abroad trip to the continent and then stayed on to conduct research on her current book, a


Dr. Zalar Lead 18 Students to Paris, London, and Normandy By: Alberto Jones In December students from UC stood on Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, where 71 years ago the D-Day invasion occurred.The honors history course “A Global History of World War II”
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Dr. Isaac Campos-Costero, professor of Latin American History at the University of Cincinnati recently joined in the conversation "The History of Marijuana Culture" on the radio show "All Sides" with Ann Fisher. Please check it out. His contribution starts at the 37 minute
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"What Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and ISIS Don't Know About Islamic History: The Use and Abuse of History in Modern Iraq and Beyond" Robert Haug, University of Cincinnati Date: Sat. Nov. 1, 2pm Location: Cincinnati Public Library, Main Library South Building, Genealogy & Local
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This year’s Von Rosenstiel Lecture will be delivered by Professor Mark Mazower, currently Ira D. Wallach Professor of History, Department Chair, and Director of the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University. Professor Mazower is one of the most accomplished historians working
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History Department Lecture Series Updates
Mark Mazower, of Columbia University, will be at UC on Thursday and Friday, February 27-28. He will give a public lecture at 4 on Thursday entitled "The Greek War for Independence in Global Perspective" and this will take place in the Taft Research Center at One
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Many of you in the UC History Community may find this play and discussion forum of
particular interest as it explores racial and class change in an urban
neighborhood that closely parallels similar changes in neighborhoods in
Cincinnati both in the past and the present.
As many of you know, tumultuous neighborhood racial change
occurred in Cincinnati and elsewhere during the 1950s and 1960s. Now, whites
are beginning to move back into some of these neighborhoods, ones that have
been largely black since the middle of last century. The best known of these is
Over-the-Rhine, of course, but less well-known is that this is occurring in
other neighborhoods in the city.
Playhouse in the Park is performing Clybourne Park Jan. 18 - Feb. 16, 2014. Called “ferociously smart” by The New York Times and “uproariously funny” by Entertainment Weekly, Clybourne Park is one of the most acclaimed plays of the decade — winner of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play. The play is a spin-off of Lorraine Hansberry’s classic “A Raisin in the Sun.” In two acts set 50 years apart, the same Chicago bungalow sits at a volatile intersection of race and real estate, initially in 1959 with its sale to the neighborhood’s first black family and then in 2009 during the first wave of role-reversing gentrification.
Click here for the flyer for the performances.
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