Wherever you may Rome: Education Abroad in the Eternal City 

12 Wednesday Jul 2023

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By: Dr. Casey Stark, BGSU Associate Teaching Professor, Roma Aeterna Summer 2023 Instructor

This experience began several years ago with BGSU’s encouragement of faculty to lead short education abroad programs, and the idea, “Why not study Roman history in Rome?”.  

As a historian of Ancient Rome, I’m fully cognizant of how difficult it is to wrap our heads around the history and geography of a city that was founded – at least according to the Romans – in 753 BCE and over the centuries grew to a capital of approximately one million people and the center of an empire. With the increase in digital technologies, it has become easier to provide students with a more comprehensive idea of the evolution of the city’s development, expansion and building projects, and what living in ancient Rome would have been like, but this education abroad experience took things up a level (or two or three). 

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BGSU Historians Come Together at Childhood Conference at University of Guelph  

28 Wednesday Jun 2023

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By Professor Emerita Ruth Wallis Herndon, Ph.D.

Dr. Lamson, Dr. Herndon, Dr. Green and Dr. Eisel pose for a photo at The University of Guelph.

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. 

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2023 Graduate Student Awards

11 Thursday May 2023

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Kasandra Fager was awarded both the Senior Graduate Student Distinguished Research Award and the Outstanding Departmental Citizen Award in April 2023.

For more information on previous award winners, see this link.

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2023 Undergraduate Awards Winners

11 Thursday May 2023

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Dr. Casey Stark awards Joseph DeSario with the General Niles J. Fulwyler History Scholarship

To learn more about previous undergraduate awards winners, see this link.

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Ireland’s Easter Rising of 1916: A Troubled Revolution

10 Wednesday May 2023

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By: Braxton Howard, 2023 Award Winner of the Donna M. Neiman Award, Senior History Major

This is a public presentation of a paper originally written for HIST 4805: Revolutions in World History, taught by Dr. Michael Brooks. Although shortened to the essentials, this post aims to outline the ways that the relatively short Easter Rising of 1916 could bring to light divides that had grown among the Irish people, which would bring over a century of contention exhibited not only through a war for independence and the Troubles, but also equally contentious works of history. These divisions – an intertwined mixture of views on British rule and religious belief – would come to a boiling point as frustrations with the British grew in reaction to representation issues, the Irish Famine in the 1840s, and, at the time of the Rising, World War I drafts. Religion had long been a point of conflict among the Irish, with British attempts to convert them to Protestantism, often by force, occurring regularly and finding the most success in Northern Ireland.

Figure 1: Even the flag of Ireland, though unifying, showcases these divisions. The green is said to represent Irish nationalists, while the orange represents those who sought union with the British (Oranges), and the white, peace. Accessed from Wikimedia.org.
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In Memory of Professor Emeritus Dr. James H. Forse

08 Monday May 2023

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Dr. Forse at BGSU

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 .

We Are Not Throwing Away Our Shot! 

05 Friday May 2023

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By Kasandra Fager and Emily Shaver 

Imagine! Four BGSU students jamming out to Hamilton on the home way from Chicago singing about immigrants, truth, and democracy. This musical is found in any historian’s collection, but there is more to it than just a piano and a sheet of music. The silences and difficult topics that are revealed in this musical are the same themes that were revealed in our trip to Chicago. Like they say, “History Has Its Eyes on You” and we certainly took that to heart! 

Over Spring Break, four history graduate students traveled to Chicago to embark on a 72-hour public history experience. Supported by the department’s student organization, Phi Alpha Theta, and BGSU’s Student Engagement Office, they visited the Chicago History Museum, the Field Museum of Natural History, and the Illinois Holocaust Museum. We may have lost our way as we tried to find the parking lot near our hotel and visited the bean in the rain, but we made it to the other side with Giordano’s deep-dish pizza in our stomachs and a new appreciation for Chicago’s history.  

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Why should we study the history of medicine?

03 Wednesday May 2023

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By Becky Brown and Dr. Michele Clouse  (Ohio University)

A common struggle with teaching history – at any level – is helping students connect to people living hundreds or even thousands of years ago in vastly different cultures. While daily life in the 21st century is markedly different from many of the times and places studied in your typical high school World History course, today’s students can readily identify with the disruptive effects of disease and epidemics. 

The Department of History at Bowling Green State University recently explored the histories of disease, health, and medicine through a professional development workshop provided for Northwest Ohio Social Studies teachers. Through a series of speakers, discussion groups, and resource sessions, middle and high school teachers shared knowledge and teaching techniques to help one another grapple with teaching a challenging, but timely, topic in history.  

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Behind the Scenes of a Documentary: Emma Brown’s experience working on Trailblazing Women in Ohio Politics

25 Tuesday Apr 2023

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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!

Emma Brown and Dr. Miller at the Maumee showing of the documentary in March ’23
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