From right to left, Kara Barr, Casey Stark, Andy Schocket, Savi Kunze, Becky Mancuso, Scott Martin, Michael Brooks, Michael Carver, Amílcar Challú. In the Williams Conference Room 141.
This is a rather unconventional faculty photo… Some historical context: For the last few years, President Rogers invites faculty and staff to choose their favorite pie from Schmuker’s Restaurant, a Toledo legend. This time, our faculty decided to add a twist to this emerging tradition: after picking up the pie, repot plants in the conference room, and enjoy some time with colleagues after a grueling semester.
Patrick C. Cook, History senior and History Society Vice President
This is a public presentation written as part of HIST4001, Professional Practices in History
Harrower’s itinerary drawn on Robert Sayer’s “A New Map, or Chart in Mercators Projection, of The Western or Atlantic Ocean with Part of Europe, Africa and America” (London, 1757). Accessed from raremaps.com.
The following is a condensed version of John Harrower’s story, a Scottish indentured servant living in Virginia at the time of the American Revolution. Today he is remembered as an indentured servant who kept an extensive personal journal during his time in Virginia. Upon first inspection, one may not notice the peculiarities in his writing. Though the further one may read, they may come to understand that Harrower’s experience was unique and valuable to further study. People of high status would treat Harrower as a friend rather than a servant in the colonies, due to his significant educational and social skills. These skills distinguished him from his fellow indentured servants. Harrower’s ability to write poetry and prose, speak in a gentlemanly fashion, and conduct himself properly among the elite all ensured him greater social mobility than the average servant.
“What will the end of the world look like?” It’s an uneasy question, but most of us have thought it. Today, we may draw on modern popular culture to think about it and imagine zombies overrunning the world. We may draw on scientific predictions or science fiction and imagine natural disasters one after the other. Or we may gain inspiration in prophecies about Judgement Day. All these answers have one thing in common: they are stories that encode the experience, wisdom and feeling of a culture and pass it on from one generation to another, and sometimes one place to another, one culture to another. This article is about one of these stories that survived the test of time. This story begins in ancient Scandinavia or what is now known as Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland.
By Jacob Branstiter. Jacob had been president of the History Society in 2019-20. He plans to earn a Master’s Degree in archival studies or a related field, in order to pursue a career in archiving.
This is a public presentation produced in HIST4001, Professional Practices in History.
This project recounts one of the most heated scholarly debates of recent times, the question of the authenticity of the Vinland Map. From its origins in the hands of manuscript thief Enzo Ferrajoli, to its fraud revealed at the hands of independent researcher John Paul Floyd, this map’s legacy is forever marked by its infamy. This infamy stands as a cautionary tale to all researchers of the dangers of scholarly isolation, evidence suppression, and unknown provenance.
This post is part of the history seniors’ public presentation, which is a requirement of HIST4001, Professional Practices in History.
This presentation argues how Hitler’s Nazi Germany discriminated against homosexuals to reform German values, in their ambition to create a uniform population and culture.
Amílcar E. Challú (Assoc. Prof. of History, and chair)
Chad Iwertz Duffy (Assist. Prof. of English)
Photo of key personnel of NEH CARES grant “Toward a pedagogy from crisis”
Faculty in English, History and the Institute for the Culture and Society have been collaborating in a project funded by a National Endowment for the Humanities — CARES Act grant. This project has three big objectives: 1) to support our humanities programs to adapt to the new pedagogical needs of COVID times; 2) to mitigate the negative impact of the COVID crisis; 3) to learn from the multimodal experience in the humanities. Chad I. Duffy (English) and Amílcar E. Challú (History) are the co-principal investigators.
The coronavirus pandemic and accompanying shutdown of schools, colleges and universities required a rapid transition of face-to-face courses to online offerings. History faculty adapted quickly and well, changing syllabi, assignments, and course activities. Here are some images of how History faculty and students adapted to unprecedented circumstances.
The History Department is unveiling a new curriculum in Fall 2020. We have compiled a brief FAQ of questions students have raised regarding how they will be affected by the curriculum change.
It is with great sadness that we learned that Dr. Ron Seavoy, emeritus professor of the Department of History, passed on March 25th. Ron retired in the early 1990s but was an active presence in our department until very recently. It was common to see Dr. Seavoy biking down the streets of Bowling Green to his retiree office in Williams Hall.
We just received an email from our alum, Dr. Stephanie Gaskill, that warmed our hearts in this (not so cold, so far) January. Stephanie graduated from BGSU with a history major (2008) and M.A. in history (2010)/ She is now the education director of Operation Restoration, an organization that is bringing college to Louisiana prisons. Stephanie’s path illustrates the many ways in which historians change the world, for the public good, little by little. You can be part of her efforts by sending a copy of Harriet Jacobs Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girlor supporting the organization in other ways.
