17 Tuesday Dec 2024
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The Department’s new addition, Dr. Savitri Kunze, just finished her first semester teaching at BGSU.
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Dr. Shirley Green, Adjunct History Instructor at BGSU and the University of Toledo, delivered a talk on the Life and Legacy of Ella P. Stewart, one of the nation’s first Black female pharmacists.
Continue reading05 Thursday Sep 2024
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From the Department of History at Bowling Green State University: Dr. Apollos O. Nwauwa has recently published an anthology on Nigeria’s Aro Confederacy and its history, entitled “The Aro Confederacy: State Formation, Chronology, and Historiography”.
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by Dr. Casey Stark
Teaching a college-level history survey course is both challenging and rewarding. I think of designing one as a science and delivering it as a form of art. The faculty in the Department of History who teach these American and World history surveys use a variety of formats and pedagogical strategies. There is no one “best” way of communicating historical content or helping students develop the skills of a historian – so each instructor does so differently based on multitude of factors. This post shares how I have redesigned HIST 1510: World Civilizations into a history “lab” course.
Continue reading19 Tuesday Mar 2024
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BGSU history faculty, students, and alumni attended the Ohio Academy of History Meeting last Friday and Saturday.
Dr. Mancuso and Dr. Martin attended to support grad students giving papers (Dr. Mancuso also gave an interesting paper on the history of hazing at BGSU). Chase Fleece, Chloe Kozal, McKade Schultz, and Andrea Freimuth (ACS) all gave excellent papers, as did Sara Butler-Tongate (University Archives). It was also good to see department alums attending and presenting papers. Don Eberle (PhD) and Jacob Mach (ABD, Purdue) gave well-received papers, and we also ran into Chris Blubaugh (MA).
Let’s look forward to next year’s OAH at Kent State!
05 Tuesday Dec 2023
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Click here to listen to Doug Forsyth’s interview about the project with London Mitchell of “Staying in Contact” podcast
When you receive an envelope containing a Confederate bullet in a box of family documents, you’re going to be inspired to do a little digging.
Continue reading28 Wednesday Jun 2023
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BGSU History, Childhood Conference, Dr. Christine Eisel, Dr. Lisa Rose Lamson, Dr. Ruth Wallis Herndon, Dr. Shirley Green, Emeriti, University of Guelph
By Professor Emerita Ruth Wallis Herndon, Ph.D.
Four historians, all alumnae of BGSU’s Department of History, made presentations and renewed collegial ties earlier this month at a conference organized by the Society for the History of Children and Youth (SHCY) and hosted by the University of Guelph in southern Ontario.
Continue reading08 Monday May 2023
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Dr. James Forse was a member of our department for 44 years and retired in 2010. The department sends our support and love to his family, friends, and former students.
If you wish to share a memory of Dr. Forse with his family, please see this link.
Dr. Forse’s research and teaching focus was on Medieval and Renaissance Europe. He was the author of Art Imitates Business: Commercial and Political Influence in Elizabethan Theatre (Bowling Green State University Press, 1993), and published articles which have appeared in German History, The Journal of Medival History, SRASP, Journal of Popular Culture, and Theatre Survey .
19 Sunday Feb 2023
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This article is re-posted from Dr. Amílcar Challú‘s personal academic blog.
Last Thursday I took my pre-independence Latin America to The Teaching Kitchen, an annex to the main cafeteria in which a chef, in coordination with a faculty member, instructs how to cook a certain dish. I used food in classes before but it was the first time I tried using cooking as a teaching tool. We prepared tortillas from masa harina, baked them (don’t grill me for this) and then ate them with beans and salsa, with chocolate made with almond milk (no atole available, unfortunately).
12 Sunday Feb 2023
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An Excerpt of “Energy Geopolitics,” for the Foreign Policy Association, and the Wood County Committee on Aging’s Great Decisions Lecture Series, 2023, Bowling Green (21 January 2023)
When the Russians invaded the Ukraine last February, they hoped to use Europe’s dependence on Russian energy deliveries, particularly gas, to soften the reaction of the West, and perhaps also to split the West’s reaction to Russian aggression.
They hoped in particular that the Germans would remain somewhat conciliatory. Russia was supplying the EU with 40% of its natural gas before the war began. Natural gas constituted 25% of Germany’s energy supply, and Russia supplied 55% of Germany’s gas consumption. Moreover, Germany and Russia were about to open Nordstream II, the second major pipeline under the Baltic Sea, which permitted the direct shipment of Russian gas to Germany, without passing through Polish or Ukrainian territory.
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