This spring semester was a strange one. We had to postpone our usual Commencement celebrations, so we put together a video with Commencement speeches from the secretary of the Smithsonian and the president of the American Historical Association, shout-outs from LMU History faculty, and a parade of our History graduates. Please join us in congratulating our History seniors! #LMU20
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We were zooming in on history before Zoom became the way we communicate with each other. In fall 2018, we introduced concentrations into the major and minor to give students the opportunity to focus their studies on specific themes, questions, and issues. Learn more about the History concentrations, the History major (Generalist Track and Specialist Track), and the History minor. Coming this fall, we will have a learning community each semester, organized around one of our concentrations (the first is Public and Applied History), as well as a dedicated learning community for first-semester students.
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The study of history offers us not just a window into different cultures, near and far, in time and space, but also gives us the perspective necessary to understand the world around us today and how the past is reflected and refracted in the present. History Department programming creates community in the department but also engages the broader community on campus and beyond. Visiting speakers present their research in conversation with students; this year’s speakers focused on the global plastics crisis (fall) and the history of testosterone (spring). We also have regular History in the Headlines roundtables, where we put current events – from the Confederate monuments debate, to immigration, to gun violence, to impeachment – in a broader historical and global context.
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We do history in the classroom and in the departmental village, but also out in the world. Public history projects have included student-curated exhibitions – about the Civil War, animals and monsters in history, and LMU history – in collaboration with the William H. Hannon Library; websites; “free history lessons” in the community; and podcasts. Global immersion courses, which integrate a travel component into a spring course (most recently, a spring 2019 trip to Berlin for two history courses), allow students to study history where it happened.
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History Major Awarded Phi Beta Kappa Scholarship
Veronica Backer-Peral ’22, triple major in history, film and television production, and computer science, has a passion for interdisciplinary research and was recently awarded a selective Phi Beta Kappa Key into Public Service Scholarship. Read More>
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Student Public Affairs Internship at U.S. Embassy to the Holy See
Jordyn Wedell spent her summer working in the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See in Rome. She worked as a public affairs intern, which deepened her understanding of herself, foreign policy, and other cultures. Read More>
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Nazi Germany: A Class Timeline
In spring 2019, undergraduate students in Nazi Germany (HIST 4373/JWST 4998) collaborated on the creation of a digital timeline about the history of Nazi Germany. The timeline project explores the origins of Nazi ideology and its development over time, the nature of the Nazi state and German society under Nazism, and some of the legacies of Nazism in postwar Germany. Read More>
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Congratulations to Our Faculty!
Carla Bittel, associate professor of history, has been named a 2020-21 Dibner Research Fellow in the History of Science and Technology at the Huntington Library. This is a nine month residential fellowship where she will be working on a project titled "A Most Useful and Peculiar Science: Phrenology in Practice in the Nineteenth Century."
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