BY IAN MILLER When a worn 18th century sampler is laid carefully on a padded table under soft studio lights, it tells more than a story of needle and thread, it presents…
Tag: World History
Historical Thinking & Wikipedia Research
It’s the first week of Ancestra! Be sure to get your tickets at https://www.playhousesquare.org/events/detail/ancestra Global Interconnections students have chosen their Wikipedia articles and started the research process. Here are the articles they…
Public Narratives, Theatre, & Wikipedia
Ancestra at Playhouse Square From February 22 through March 3 Ancestra, a play directed by Holly Holsinger (CSU chair of Theatre & Dance), will be staged at Playhouse Square with a sister…
Nov 7: 2022 Map Walk at CSU!
(cross-posted from csuhistory.org) Monday, November 7, 2022 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. CSU Student Center Ballroom 2121 Euclid Avenue, Room SC 311, A-B-C-D It’s that time of year! Dr. Stephen Cory…
March 21: Digital Humanities Talk in PH 104
Social Studies majors & alums interested in Digital Humanities: I am giving a talk on my current digital humanities research & teaching projects on March 21, 2019 at 11:30 in PH 104…
CFP: Midwest World History Association
Call for ProposalsFinding Middle Grounds: Research, Teaching, and Learning in World History The Ninth Annual Conference of the Midwest World History Association 20th-21st September 2019, North Hennepin Community College, Minneapolis, Minnesota Proposal…
October 24: Map Walk in SC Atrium
Have you ever wanted to travel to Egypt to see the pyramids, or Saudi Arabia to see the Great Mosque of Mecca? What about the Wahiba Sands in Oman? On Wednesday October…
October 22: Lecture by PLO Lumumba
How Corruption is Destroying Africa: Nigeria Case in Focus. The Role Diasporans Could Play in Fighting the Scourge. Speaker: Professor PLO Lumumba Date: October 22, 2018 Time: 6 pm (**please note the updated…
Summer 2018, Oral Histories in Retrospective
This summer I tackled two very contentious topics in Cold War history: the El Salvador Civil War and the Vietnam War. For lack of a better term, I dove headfirst into the…
The Importance of Oral Histories to the Master Narrative, Part II
In part one of this blog post, I outlined historian Dr. Erik Ching’s book, Stories of Civil War in El Salvador: A Battle over Memory. His book’s premise is that one can…
