Please join students from Xavier University’s “Cincinnati and the Civil Rights Era” class at the Harriet Beecher Stowe House on December 7, 2013 at 1:00 p.m., as they present their projects on riots, freeways, women, neighborhoods and the politics of respectability. The event
Hamilton County Municipal Judge and UC History grad, Hon. Tyrone K. Yates comments on the legacy of John F. Kennedy on the 50th Anniversary of his assassination. http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20131122/EDIT02/311220056 President John F. Kennedy, shown acknowledging the cheers of the crowd during a 1963 visit to
Artists' rendering of Lincoln's address Short, Precise, Eloquent: Today marks the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's delivery of the Gettysburg address. Read UC History’s Chris Phillips' reflections on these evocative words and their meaning for American history in today's Cincinnati Enquirer: http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20131119/EDIT/311190010/OPINION-Lincoln-s-Gettysburg-Address-changed-nation. Professor
UC History Professor Ethan Katz was recently quoted in an article on the Jewish and Israeli News website. "Holocaust Seen as ‘camouflage for Hate’ at Kristallnacht’s 75th anniversary" , written by Alina Dain Sharon, addresses the issues of remembrance of the Kristallnacht, while also arguing
UC History Professor Isaac Campos recently won the 2013 Best Book Prize from the New England Council of Latin American Studies. The book, Home Grown: Marijuana and the Origins of Mexico's War on Drugs, has also been awarded an Honorable Mention for 2013 Bryce
Professor Nikki Taylor A quick heads-up to let you know of some of our historians in the news these days! African-American history expert, Professor Nikki Taylor, recently appeared in a new television documentary hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., The African Americans: Many Rivers to
UC History Professor Kate Sorrels will be giving a talk at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion this coming Monday, November 4 at 12:40 on the 3rd floor of the American Jewish Archives Building. Professor Sorrels' talk is entitled "The Aristocracy of the Future: A
Maurice Adkins, a first year PhD student here at UC, has had a book review, "The Black Revolution on Campus", published in The Journal of Pan African Studies, vol. 6, no. 4, September 2013. He reviews The Black Revolution on Campus (University of California Press, 2012) by
HIST 3075: Urban African American History in the 20th 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
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,
Check out these very provocative 3000 level courses being offered by the history department this spring semester! Art, Race and Nation: Citizenship and Identity in the United States Race and Gender in Latin America (to1800)
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
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
This New York Times essay references scholarly examination of the well know slave narrative, soon to be a movie, Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup. This will be of interest to those concerned with how non-historians portray historic events. An Escape From
This Saturday, September 21st, from 11am to 4pm, Cincinnati area residents can enjoy a history tour of Hamilton Avenue and the College Hill area. Sponsored by the Mt. Healthy, and the North College Hill and College Hill Historical Societies, the Clovernook Center, the Twin
Please join local community leaders and UC faculty in a round-table discussion, on September 19th, about international migration, the immigrant communities in Cincinnati, and US immigration reform. Our own history Professor Brianna N. Leavitt-Alcántara, along with Dr. Leila Rodriguez from the Anthropology department, have coordinated
HISTORIANS AGAINST SLAVERY TO HOST A NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMBATING SLAVERY AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING --SEPTEMBER 19-21, 2013. Cincinnati, Ohio — “Crossing Boundaries, Making Connections: American Slavery and Antislavery Now and Then,” a conference to be held at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center addresses the
Please mark your calendars to join us for a research presentation the week after next by Professor Stan Corkin of the UC English Department. Professor Corkin’s research area is the history of American culture, literature, and film. He has just completed work on
Myles Horton and his Highlander Folk School were key elements in organizing for Civil Rights in the South for several decades starting in the early 1930s. Rosa Parks spent a week there in the months before she helped set off the Montgomery Bus
The "Catholicism in Latin America Film Festival" brings together students, faculty, and administrators to consider the profound relationship between the Catholic Church and Latin American society, politics, and culture. A part of the University's celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, the three films in
Prof. Nikki Taylor Professor Nikki Taylor of the History Department of the University of Cincinnati will be giving two talks this week. Prof. Taylor will give College Hill's inaugural Ambassador Jesse Dwight Locker Lecture on Friday, July 26th at 7:30, in the auditorium of the
Mae Ngai, Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History at Columbia University, is the History Department's Taft Departmental Lecturer for the 2013-14 academic year. Her visit is being co-sponsored by the Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights in the
First-year doctoral student Alyssa McClanahan has been awarded the fifth annual Roger Daniels Summer Fellowship. McClanahan will continue her research of anti-nuclear feminists in the 1980s, exploring an online archive from the Seneca Women’s Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice (http://peacecampherstory.blogspot.com/).
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