05 Thursday Dec 2024
Posted in Alumni News
Our 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 reading08 Friday Nov 2024
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The Department of History recognized the many accomplishments of its graduate students at last week’s Fall Welcome!
Continue reading11 Friday Oct 2024
Posted in Graduate Student News, Public history project
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 reading01 Wednesday May 2024
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BGSU Department of History master’s student, Oluwatimilehin Fatoki, had interned and researched in the South Carolina’s Oyotunji African Village, writing on the significance of the “spirital ecosystem” and the significance of cultural resilience and preservation of African culture in the United States. Below is his thesis, titled “The Yoruba Gods in Oyotunji, South Carolina: a Case Study of Religio-Cultural Africanisms in the Americas”.
Continue reading18 Thursday Apr 2024
Posted in Department News, Events, Graduate Student News, Public History, Public history project
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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!
17 Saturday Sep 2022
Posted in Graduate Student News, Professional Development, Public History
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By Kasandra Fager, BGSU History MA student, edited by Chloe S. Kozal
Imagine the best museum you have visited, whether that was a Presidential Museum, a battlefield, or an art museum. Did it have interactive exhibits, a planetarium, an easy-to-read narrative, or a family-friendly atmosphere? Well, if nothing comes to mind, consider Grand Rapids, Michigan as your next destination!
Continue reading09 Sunday Jan 2022
Posted in Graduate Student News, Public history project
≈ Comments Off on Research Trip to the Stephen Foster Memorial Museum, Pittsburgh, PA Joshua Dubbert, M.A. History Candidate (’22)
This is part of an ongoing series of posts about the work of students in BGSU in public history. Joshua Dubbert is a graduate student in the M.A. in history. He studies 19th-century America, Victorian Culture, and the composer Stephen Foster. To learn more about our history programs, visit bgsu.edu/history.
I recently visited the Stephen Foster Memorial Museum in Pittsburgh, PA to do research for my Public History Capstone project, entitled Stephen Foster, at Home in the 19th Century. The project deals with 19th-century composer Stephen Collins Foster, author of some of the most famous songs in American history including “Oh! Susanna,” and “Camptown Races.” It will be available through an Omeka site that will be linked permanently on the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for American Music website. The central contribution of the project will be a synthesis of the conceptual and physical aspects of home relating to Foster, anchored in the early to mid-Victorian era. It will be the first study to examine Foster solely in relation to the Victorian idea of “home.”
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.
08 Saturday Feb 2020
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By Katie Nowakowski
I have been very grateful for my opportunity to work with Heritage Sylvania, a history center and museum in Sylvania, Ohio, in 2019. Because it is such a small organization, I got to witness in depth how it is managed, what kind of workers are involved, and how a non-profit operates financially. Heritage Sylvania is run primarily by the executive director and I was the only other “office” employee. For this reason, I had a variety of tasks that were all important to the organization.
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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