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BGSU alum Joe Faykosh was recently quoted in the New York Times article: Even Without Its Most Famous Son, Carter’s Hometown Remains a Destination.
Continue reading17 Friday Jan 2025
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BGSU alum Joe Faykosh was recently quoted in the New York Times article: Even Without Its Most Famous Son, Carter’s Hometown Remains a Destination.
Continue reading17 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 reading05 Thursday Dec 2024
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inOur alumni bring their knowledge and skills to a wide variety of roles. We interviewed one of our alumni, Maureen Mason (BA ‘10, Grad Certificate‘14), about her career at the National Veterans Memorial and Museum in Columbus, Ohio.
Continue reading29 Friday Mar 2024
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A few weeks ago we featured a crossword by Tim Beatty, a retired teacher and alum. Tim Beatty grew up in Swanton, Ohio, forty minutes northwest of Bowling Green. He attended Bowling Green State University (BGSU) between 1969 and 1976, earning both his Bachelor’s and his Master’s in history and American Culture Studies. He remembers fondly Robert Twyman as one of his history professors, enjoying the courses he taught.
Continue reading27 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 reading25 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!
03 Thursday Jun 2021
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Rob Carlock earned an MA in History and a Graduate Certificate in Public History from BGSU in May 2019. This fall, he will enter his second year in the PhD Program in History at George Mason University.
Bowling Green State University was my home for 6 years as I worked my way through my bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history. I then left Ohio to pursue a PhD in history at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, sadly leaving behind a support network and family I had built during my time there. It has certainly been a challenge, especially since my first year has been synchronous online learning due to COVID-19. Although I have yet to meet my peers and faculty in-person, I was able to connect with many of them and begin to forge new relationships. With my peers, my connection is definitely a sense of unity that we are tackling such a daunting task together; with the faculty, my connection is a sense of confidence and support as they encourage me to continue identifying and expanding on my interests.
22 Saturday May 2021
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Author: Brittany Von Kamp, recent graduate from the History M.A. program
When pursuing a publisher for his book manuscript Beyond Truman: Robert H. Ferrell and Crafting the Past (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020), author Dr. Douglas Dixon responded with a laugh—that several editors rejected the book’s thrust, saying: “Nobody cares about historians.” Dixon explained that this was a major hurdle in getting the book to readers who, in fact, do care about the challenges faced by past masters in doing history. What challenged Ferrell, as the field evolved into the twenty-first century was postmodernism, the New Left, and social and cultural history. Though Dixon feels Ferrell is an important person to study, the book is much more than merely a study of this important presidential, diplomatic, and military historian, though his biography is central to it. Instead, the author had to find a way to make Ferrell’s world larger than the historian himself, to fit Ferrell into the larger historical narrative – a task that many historians face as they write about their own research. In the end, Dixon says that “the book is not just about Ferrell; it’s about the larger culture of history and doing history,” particularly in the last half of the twentieth century to the present day.
Continue reading14 Wednesday Oct 2020
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Much as historians might want to take an article or conference paper from conception to completion in one semester, in fact we often take longer. Last spring, Dr. Matt Schumann’s rendition of our Historiography course (HIST 3797) won an award for introducing students to key elements and mindsets of the historian’s craft, including an appreciation that their projects might exceed the scope of the class. One student from last Fall’s course, AYA Education major Mr. Benjamin Stuck, has now spent a year on his project, a history of the War on Drugs, and he just received a CURS grant this Fall to support his ongoing research.
In this post, Dr. Schumann asks Mr. Stuck for some perspectives on his evolving project, where it has been and where it’s going.
Continue reading16 Thursday Jan 2020
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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 Girl or supporting the organization in other ways.
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