History

Constantine Vaporis, History and Asian Studies, to Lead Workshop

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On Saturday, March 24, Constantine Vaporis, professor of history and director of the Asian Studies program, will lead a workshop for the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA) at the University of Pittsburgh, a NCTA National Coordinating Site. The workshop will be entitled “Japan and its World: Late Edo Period and Today.” The workshop will focus on the changes occurring in the late Edo period (mid-19th Century) especially the “opening” of Japan, and how this information relates to understanding Japan’s role in the world today. Vaporis’ presentation will deal with four distinct topics: Challenges from Within Danger from Without… Continue Reading Constantine Vaporis, History and Asian Studies, to Lead Workshop

Rebecca Boehling, History, Gives Lectures

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Rebecca Boehling, professor of history and director of the Dresher Center for the Humanities, delivered the 8th Annual Richard Yashek Lecture at Albright College in Reading, PA on Thursday, March 1st. More information about the talk can be found here. She and co-author Uta Larkey also spoke about their book, Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust, at the Myerberg Senior Center in Pikesville, Maryland on March 4.

Dan Ritschel, History, and Student to Present at Conference

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On Friday, March 9, Dan Ritschel, associate professor of history, and one of his Ph.D. students in the history public policy track, Rod McCaslin, will be on a panel together at the Huntington Library in California. The panel is part of the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies. McCaslin will read a paper based on his dissertation research: “The Mysterious Traveler: Finding Edmund Spencer and his influence on Victorian policy-making.” Ritschel will give a paper entitled “The Missing Link: Proto-Keynesian Ideas within the Labour Party in the 1920s.” More information about the conference can be found here.

Anne Rubin, History, Elected President of the Society of Civil War Historians

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Anne Rubin, associate professor of history, has been elected president of the Society of Civil War Historians for 2012-2014.  The Society of Civil War Historians is committed to promoting both scholarship and fellowship among historians, graduate students and professionals who interpret history in museums, national parks, archives and other public facilities.The SCWH seeks to promote the study of the Civil War era and to bring greater coherence to the field by encouraging the integration of social, military, political, and other forms of history. The Society publishes a quarterly newsletter, sponsors a biennial conference in even-numbered years (the 2012 conference is in… Continue Reading Anne Rubin, History, Elected President of the Society of Civil War Historians

Center for History Education’s “Children’s Lives at Colonial London Town” Project Wins Award

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The “Children’s Lives at Colonial London Town” project, which was developed by UMBC’s Center for History Education’s “Making American History Master Teachers in Anne Arundel County” program, is the recipient of the 2012 Social Studies Program of Excellence Award from the Middle States Regional Council for the Social Studies, an affiliate of the National Council for the Social Studies. The award will be given on March 8, 2012 in Baltimore. Marjoleine Kars, chair of history, has worked with a group of 4th and 5th grade teachers from Anne Arundel County Public Schools for the past four years. She and Mary… Continue Reading Center for History Education’s “Children’s Lives at Colonial London Town” Project Wins Award

Constantine Vaporis, Asian Studies and History, Explains Link Between Samurai and Cherry Blossoms

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Constantine Vaporis, director of the Asian studies program and professor of history, is a consultant and writer for a new exhibit at the National Geographic Museum entitled “Samurai: The Warrior Transformed,” which opens March 7 and runs through September 3. The exhibition was planned to coincide with and D.C.’s annual National Cherry Blossom Festival, which this year marks the 100th anniversary of the gift of 3,000 cherry trees to Washington, D.C. by the government of Japan In the video below, Vaporis answers the question, “What do samurai have to do with cherry blossoms?” [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUCayZlvvdU&w=560&h=315]

Remembering Robert K. Webb

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From Marjoleine Kars, Chair of the History Department I regret to inform the campus that Robert K. Webb died on February 14. Born in 1922, Bob Webb was long the preeminent American scholar of British history, with a glittering array of Guggenheim, NEH, and other fellowships and distinctions. He came to UMBC in 1975, from being editor of the American Historical Review, the nation’s most important journal of history, and before that he had been Professor of History at Columbia University. Giving his energy, leadership, and commitment, not just his name and stature, to UMBC, he helped shape not only… Continue Reading Remembering Robert K. Webb

Rebecca Boehling, History, Speaks at Leo Baeck Institute

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On Tuesday, November 1, Rebecca Boehling spoke at the Leo Baeck Institute about her new book, “Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust: A Jewish Family’s untold Story.”  Boehling was joined by her co-author, Uta Larkey. The institute, which is located in New York, is a research library and archive that contains the most significant collection of source material relating to the history of German-speaking Jewry, from its origins to its tragic destruction by the Nazis and continuing to the present day.

Rebecca Boehling, History, on WIP-AM

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Rebecca Boehling, professor of history and director of the Dresher Center for the Humanities, appeared on Philadelphia’s WIP-AM on Sunday, September 11. She discussed her new book, “Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust” on the program “Conversations with Peter Solomon.”

Kate Brown, History, to Speak at Events

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Kate Brown, associate professor of history, will give two distinguished off-campus lectures this fall. The first will be a keynote lecture at the symposium “Diverse Landscapes of Ukraine: Celebrating Twenty Years of Ukrainian Independence.” The symposium will take place on the campus of the Pennsylvania State University on September 30 and October 1. Brown’s lecture, “When History and Biology Collide: Chornobyl and the Making of a Disaster,” will be the keynote lecture of the first day of the event. Then, on October 13, Brown will give a lecture entitled “Irrevocable: The Life-Changing, Society-Altering Significance of Plutonium in the US and… Continue Reading Kate Brown, History, to Speak at Events

Humanities Forum: Rebecca Boehling Reads (9/14)

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In 2002, Suzanne Ostrand-Rosenberg, professor of biology, found hundreds of WWII-era family letters in her parents’ home. She contacted Rebecca Boehling, professor of history and director of the Dresher Center for the Humanities, and the result is was a collective biography about a German Jewish family in Nazi Germany. Co-authored with Uta Larkey, of Coucher College, Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust reveals the family’s struggle over whether to go or to stay while confronting ever increasing obstacles to emigration and immigration. The book documents family members’ hopes and fears as they are scattered over three continents,… Continue Reading Humanities Forum: Rebecca Boehling Reads (9/14)

Marching Into the Future

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UMBC associate professor of history Anne Sarah Rubin is at the forefront of using digital approaches to research history and other areas in the humanities. – By Scott McLemee The very thought of a website devoted to Sherman’s March may inspire mild dread. After all, the path of destruction that General William Tecumseh Sherman and the Union Army blazed across Georgia during the final weeks of 1864 was one of the most violent episodes in American history. But by some unwritten law of the Internet, historical trauma nearly always returns as digital kitsch. One braces for a cross between a… Continue Reading Marching Into the Future

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