17 Friday Jan 2025
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Heather Bloom (MA ‘21) is the Collections Manager at the Bastrop County Museum in Texas. She drew on her many experiences working with collections in Bowling Green and Toledo to design something innovative – a museum exhibit highlighting the stories behind Bastrop County residents’ tattoos.
Continue reading11 Saturday Jan 2025
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Join us as we hear from last year’s public history interns! Graduate students in history at BGSU completed internships across the state in 2024. Today, we’ll read about Patrick Cook’s experience working for the Liberty Aviation Museum in Port Clinton, Ohio.
Continue reading11 Friday Oct 2024
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By Chase Fleece, Graduate Student in the Department of History at BGSU
In the small hours of August 25, 1934, the residents of McGuffey, Ohio–a small rural community fifty-five miles southwest of Bowling Green–slept peacefully following a rather uneventful afternoon. Since mid-June, the monotony most McGuffians enjoyed had been disrupted by sporadic squabbles between union organizers and anti-union deputies. Organized with the American Federation of Labor (AFL), AWFLU 19724 comprised nearly 800 local farmworkers and sharecroppers who weeded, topped, and harvested the Scioto Marsh’s many onions. To many their demands were simple: increased wages and an eight-hour workday. Yet growers had refused to negotiate and confrontations continued. Then, at three o’clock in the morning, a charge of nitroglycerin ripped through McGuffey Mayor Godfrey Ott’s home breaking windows and caving in the southside walls. Luckily, no one was injured in the blast – but more violence was yet to come.
Continue reading18 Thursday Apr 2024
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Emily Shaver Kay and Peter Limbert, students in the History M.A. program, presented a poster about the Eclipsing History podcast in the National Council for Public History annual conference in Salt Lake City.
The poster gathered good attention and multiple attendees scanned the QR code to open up the season! Those who engaged with the presenters and the poster commented on how innovative the class which constructed the podcast sounded and that it covers perspectives and topics usually left behind in the history field, like Indigenous knowledge and contribution to American history and Western scientific thought. There was also great interest in the digital history skills that students learned. Congratulations on the presenters and everyone in the class for this success!
27 Saturday Jan 2024
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Historian with Diverse Background, Specialty in Victorian History, Hired at Hayes Presidential
Republished from the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library and Museums News
When Josh Dubbert was a fourth-grader at Danbury Elementary School in Marblehead, his class toured the Hayes Home on a field trip.
That was the beginning of a life-long interest in presidential history and President Rutherford B. Hayes’ time period.
Continue reading05 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 reading25 Tuesday Apr 2023
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≈ Comments Off on Behind the Scenes of a Documentary: Emma Brown’s experience working on Trailblazing Women in Ohio Politics
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Authored by Emma Brown (B.A. History, Media Production at BGSU, graduated December 2022)
Two years ago in April of 2021, I got an email from a professor I’d only ever had through an asynchronous class. It was the end of a school year spent fully online and this email was an opportunity I could only dream of. The absolutely incredible Dr. Melissa K. Miller of the political science department was working on a documentary and wanted me to be a undergraduate researcher that summer. The documentary was looking at Trailblazing Women in Ohio politics and with my history major and media production minor she thought I would be a perfect fit with the three other undergraduate researchers. Of course, I accepted!
21 Tuesday Mar 2023
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By Becky Brown
Breaking the quiet at the end of Spring Break, the Bowen-Thompson Student Union was full of excitement as students set up their projects for the Ohio History Day Region 1 Competition on Saturday, March 11. Middle- and high-school students from across Northwest Ohio traveled with their history teachers and families to BGSU to present their own historical research, interpreted creatively through exhibits, documentaries, websites, and performances.
Continue reading14 Tuesday Feb 2023
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12 Sunday Feb 2023
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≈ Comments Off on Dr. Douglas Forsyth discusses The Ukraine War: Sanctions from the USA and its allies on Russia, and Russia’s withholding of gas from Europe upending world energy markets
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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