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Katherine Weiss and Cameron Givens Represent Department at Great War Conference
Congratulations to Katherine Weiss on receiving the prestigious Gerda Henkel fellowship from the Historial de la Grande Guerre and for becoming one of 200 recipients of the award since 1992, and…
Lydia Walker Interviewed About "States-in-Waiting" Book
The Oxford Martin Programme on Changing Global Orders at the University of Oxford recently interviewed Lydia Walker about her book, "States-in-Waiting":
The concept of self-…
History Praxis Lab Students Meet with Randolph Freedpeople Descendants
In 1846, Mercer County, Ohio, residents and officials violently prevented 383 formerly enslaved people from the Randolph plantation, who migrated to Ohio from Virginia, from settling on land they had…
Newark Earthworks Featured in "Now at Ohio State" Podcast
Prof. John Low and Emeritus Professors Lucy Murphy and Christine Ballengee Morris were interviewed about the history of the Newark Earthworks by Jacob Carozza for the "NOW at Ohio State" podcast…
Bart Elmore Talks Plastic Pollution in New NPR Article
Are consumer goods companies doing their part to curb plastic pollution? History Prof. Bart Elmore says beverage makers rank amongst the world's biggest plastic polluters due to their reliance on…
Randy Roth's Research Cited by Justice Sotomayor
On June 21, the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in the United States v. Rahimi that the historical record supported a federal law barring those under restraining orders in domestic-violence cases from…
Randy Roth Writes New Homicide Report for Guggenheim Foundation
In a new report, "Government Legitimacy, Social Solidarity, and American Homicide in Historical Perspective," for the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, Professor Randy Roth writes, “When citizens…
Robin Judd Named 2024 Ohioana Book Award Finalist
Congratulations to Robin Judd on being named a finalist for the 83rd annual Ohioana Book Award for her book, "Between Two Worlds." Since 1942, the Ohioana Book Awards have been presented to…
Publication of New Book By Lydia Walker
Congratulations to Lydia Walker on publication of her new book, "States-in-Waiting, A Counternarrative of Global Decolonization," (Cambridge Univ. Press).
After the Second World War,…