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By Pierre-Yves Beaudouin (Own work) [GFDL (gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia CommonsA painted medallion depicting turbaned slaves in chains at the feet of Louis XIV adorns a ceiling at the Palace of Versailles, likely noticed—or its t...

Miriam Levin, professor of history, will give a lecture at a CWRU History Associates event Thursday, Feb. 25, from 4 to 6 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 309. Levin will talk about American missionaries at two South African girls' schools in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Light refreshments will...

The Case Western Reserve University History Associates will host a program on the de-industrialization of steel in Northern Ohio Wednesday, Jan. 27, at 5:30 p.m. at the Cleveland Skating Club (2500 Kemper Rd., Shaker Heights). Historian M. Susan Murnane will present “LTV's Bankruptcy and De-industr...

David Hammack, the Hiram C. Haydn Professor of History, delivered a plenary address at the annual conference for the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), the leading international organization for researchers in its field, in November. In his speech, Ha...

Last Monday, Peter Shulman sat in his Mather House office considering the present-day refugee situation in Syria. Hadn’t the world, he thought—and, more specifically, the U.S.—been here before? So the associate professor of history began scouring digitized newspaper archives, and soon found a publ...

The Flora Stone Mather Center for Women Community Advisory Board will hold its first salon speaker event of the academic year Friday, Nov. 20, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Lynne Alfred will host the event at 2618 West Park Blvd., Shaker Heights. Renee Sentilles, associate professor of history and author...

Do you know the origins of using dissection to train medical physicians? An upcoming Dittrick Medical History Center and Museum “Stimulating Discussions across Time and Space” Conversation series, will address the early history of dissection and the problems it presented. In 1543, Andreas Vesalius ...

In the last century, Cleveland has transitioned from rust belt to health care hub. The city, once known for its steel mills, now is recognized for its prestigious medical institutions, including Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals, Cleveland Clinic, the Metro Health System, the Lou...

Miriam R. Levin, professor of history and art history, attended Expo Milan 2015 in Milan this summer to study the fair in light of the city's efforts to turn Milan into a global cultural destination. In conjunction with this visit, Levin participated in a two-day symposium on world's fairs since Wo...

It’s rare when an entire academic journal is dedicated to a single scholar. But Annals of Science did just that, devoting a recent issue to the contributions of Alan Rocke, Case Western Reserve University’s Henry Eldridge Bourne Professor of History and Distinguished University Professor. The journ...