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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

Alum Heads Delaware Public Archives: Stephen M. Marz MA '94

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Stephen M. Marz MA ’94, history, is the new director of the Delaware Public Archives. A certified archivist, Stephen earned his undergraduate degree from Monmouth University, and later an MSW from the University of Maryland. He has served as Deputy Director of the Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs for Delaware for the last five years. Read the full story here.

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