- Congratulations to our oustanding History senior Emma Cogan, who has won a prestitious Fulbright fellowship to teach English in Malaysia! Click here to read the full story.
- Join your classmates and professors at the annual History Department Picnic on Monday, April 30, 5:00-6:30pm. See the flyer for details.
- Read Professor DeVries's new article in the prestigious journal Foreign Affairs about the new HBO show "Game of Thrones" (based on novels by George R.R. Martin)!
- The Spring 2012 Newsletter is here!
- The History Department is now on Facebook. Click on http://www.facebook.com/pages/History-Department-Loyola-University-Maryland/275336255830318 to "like" us and receive news and announcements from the department.
- Do you love learning about American history, literature, culture? Then consider a minor in American Studies at Loyola. Go to www.loyola.edu/americanstudies and click on this flyer for a list of Fall 2012 courses.
- Watch Loyola History Professor Steven Hughes help Marisa Tomei to uncover her family's history in Italy on the NBC show "Who Do You Think You Are?"! He appears 22 minutes into the show: http://www.nbc.com/who-do-you-think-you-are/video/marisa-tomei/1384453.
- Congratulations to Professor Thomas Pegram, whose new book on the Ku Klux Klan was recently reviewed in the New York Times. Read the review here.
- Dr. Schmidt talks about her service-learning courses and the Refugee Youth Project in the current issue of Loyola Magazine: http://magazine.loyola.edu/issue/academics/2533/cura-personalis-elizabeth-schmidt-phd.
- Congratulations to Professors Kelly DeVries, Thomas Pegram, and Keith Schoppa on their new books! Read about Besieged Rhodes: A New History, One Hundred Percent American: The Rebirth and Decline of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, and In a Sea of Bitterness: Refugees during the Sino-Japanese War, and watch Professors Pegram and Schoppa discuss their work in a video interview here.
- Do you want to know what you can do with a History degree? Come to the department's Alumni Night on Thursday, December 1, 7pm-8:30pm, in Humanities Center 118 and learn about the many employment options available to History graduates! Coffee and desserts will be served. More information on this poster.
- Check out Prof. DeVries's recent interview
- The Fall 2011 HS 101 Non-Western Lecture will be delivered by Father Charles J. Borges, S.J., next Thursday, November 10, 2011, at 5:30pm in the Loyola/Notre Dame Library Auditorium. The title of the lecture is "Getting to Know India: The Land with Unique Histories, Cultures, and Religions." We hope to see many of you there! Click here for the flyer.
- Winners of the History Department 2010-2011 Essay Contest Announced!
- Congratulations to James Hankel, the 2010-2011 Whiteford Medalist!
- Professor John R. McNeill (Georgetown University) to deliver a lecture entitled "Revolutionary Mosquitoes: Plantation Ecology, Tropical Diseases, and Anti-Colonial Revolutions in Haiti, Venezuela, and Cuba, 1791-1898." Monday, March 28, 5:00pm, Loyola/Notre Dame Library Auditorium. All are welcome! Download the poster here (doc).
- Professor Matt Gallman (University of Florida) to speak on Tuesday, February 15, 2011, 5:45-7:00pm, in the Loyola/Notre Dame Library Auditorium. The title of his talk is "'Every Citizen Should Do Everything in his Power': Conscription and the Meaning of Citizenship in the American Civil War." All are welcome! View/download the poster here.
- History Department Fall Coffeehouse on Tuesday, October 19, 7 - 9:30 p.m., Evergreen Cafe on Coldspring!
- History Professor Kelly DeVries interviewed for PBS Documentary
- Results of the History Department 2009-2010 Essay Contest Announced!
- History Professor Elizabeth Schmidt honored for Excellence in Service Learning and Engaged Scholarship
- History Professor Steven C. Hughes wins 2010 Nachbahr Award
- Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program: Public Lecture Feb. 4, 2010 by Dr. William Hitchcock, Liberation: The Human Cost of Allied Victory in World War II Europe
- History Professor Kelly DeVries quoted in New York Times article, "Historians Reassess Battle of Agincourt"
- Professor Elizabeth Schmidt on the Recent Massacre in Guinea: A Historical Perspective
- History Professor Kelly DeVries Named 2008 Nachbahr Award Recipient
- History Professor Elizabeth Schmidt named 2008 Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award Recipient and the African Politics Conference Group's 2008 Best Book Award Recipient
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