History at OSU

Coming Soon at the Department of History

December 4, 2009

"To Stay or Go: The Gendered Decisions of the Formerly Enslaved of West Africa after the Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade.": Sandra Greene, Cornell University

3:30 pm to 5:30 pm (location: UH 014)

December 5, 2009

Creating the New Nation: The American Revolution

8:30 am to 3:00 pm (location: tba)

Dr. Richard Shiels of OSU Newark will present the first content seminar of the Connecting to the Past professional development program for grade 4-8 teachers in Ashland, Holmes, and Wayne Counties. The project is a partnership between OSU, the Tri-County Educational Service Center, and the Ohio Historical Society.
Event Co-Sponsor: History Teaching Institute of the Goldberg Center
For more information contact Stuart Hobbs at hobbs.2@osu.edu or 614-688-3092.
Also take a look at the HTI Web site.

January 16, 2010

Back to History Seminar: Women and the Social Reform Movement of the 18th Century

9:00 am to 3:00 pm (location: Heritage Center of Clark County, Springfield)

Contact: Kristina Ward
E-Mail: ward.768@osu.edu
Phone: 614-292-0159

K-12 teachers participating in the Back to History program will discuss the topic and relevant primary sources with faculty, teaching fellow, and project curator.

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Seminars & Workshops

Please check the Department Calendar for other events and meetings

Projects and Initiatives

The Center for Historical Research: Each year the Center brings together scholars from various disciplines to examine issues of broad contemporary relevance in historical perspective.
The Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching: instructional technology center and public history/outreach
RTAP/ETEP: information on the Department's customised readers: Retrieving the American Past and Exploring the European Past
eHistory@OSU: a free public site with articles, primary sources, documentary material, online books and reviews for students and scholars of history
Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective is a monthly feature investigating current issues, with a different topic each month
GMMA: Goldberg MultiMedia Archive -- a collection of thousands of images for instructional use in history
History Teaching Institute: HTI is the P-16 portal of The Harvey Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching
Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate
OSU Excavations at Isthmia

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Recent Content from our eHistory site:

(November Book Review):
428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire
by Giusto Traina (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. pp. xix, 203. Trans. by Allan Cameron)
Review by Dallas DeForest

(January Book Review):
Civilizations of Ancient Iraq
by Benjamin R. Foster and Karen Polinger Foster (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. pp. xii, 297)
Review by Dallas DeForest