History

For her paper “The Beauty Already Born: Local Government and the Irish War of Independence in County Clare,” Laurel Teal of Castle Rock, Colorado, earned the best undergraduate paper at the Phi Alpha Theta national history honorary conference held March 5-7, 2015, in Omaha, Nebraska. She conducted her research as a 2014 Irish Fellow. Other …

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Since its inception in 1935, roller derby has been a co-ed, egalitarian sport. Not so lately, according to Dr. Michella Marino, Assistant Professor of History at Hastings College, as controversial gender politics have arisen between the modern women’s and men’s roller derby leagues. On Friday, March 27, 2015, at 10 am in French Memorial Chapel …

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On Monday, November 4 at 10 a.m. in French Memorial Chapel (800 N. Turner Ave.), Dr. Rob Babcock, Professor of History, will present “Two Monuments in Budapest: An Interdisciplinary Approach.” His lecture, which is free and open to the public, is the first of two Artist Lecture Series Invited Faculty Lectures to be given during the …

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