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“Great mentors don’t just belong to people who do great things,” wrote a Case Western Reserve University alum and former student of Gillian Weiss. “They are also there for the people who stumble across the finish line.” With that resounding endorsement, her former student nominated the associate pr...

Rhonda Williams, founder and director of the Social Justice Institute and associate professor of history, recently published a review in Southern Spaces, an interdisciplinary scholarly journal about the regions, places and cultures of the U.S. South and its global connections. In “Hijacking Public ...

The Baker-Nord Center for Humanities’ World War I Centennial Series continues with the talk, “Who Started World War I? Centenary Debates about War Guilt and Meaning,” presented by Kenneth Ledford, associate professor of history and law at Case Western Reserve University. The free and public talk be...

Kevin Mumford, professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will present "Neither Straight nor White: Remaking Black Gay History from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis" on Friday, April 10, at 12:30 p.m. in Mather House 100. Drawing from his forthcoming book, Mum...

The community is invited for a day of lectures and discussion with faculty experts to examine and celebrate the life and times of civic activist Newton D. Baker, addressing his impact on the intellectual and political life of Northeast Ohio and beyond. The symposium is Sunday, April 19, from 1:30 t...

Members of the campus community are invited to take part in an “edit-a-thon” to improve Wikipedia coverage of women and the arts on Saturday, March 7, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Kelvin Smith Library. A 2011 Wikimedia survey found that fewer than 13 percent of Wikipedia contributors are female. The r...

Ted Steinberg, the Adeline Barry Davee Distinguished Professor of History and professor of law, won the PROSE Award in the U.S. history category from the Association of American Publishers. He was recognized for his book Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York. For a full list o...

The Case Western Reserve University Historical Performance Program and the Department of Music will host a concert of medieval love songs Sunday, Feb. 22, at 3 p.m. at Harkness Chapel. The concert, “Love is a Fortress,” is directed by Debra Nagy, lecturer in the Department of Music....

Rhonda Williams, associate professor of history and founder/director of the Social Justice Institute, will be a featured panelist on a plenary titled, “Cities In Revolt: Detroit, Chicago, Jackson-Mississippi, & Beyond,” Sept. 25-28 at Kalamazoo College. The panelists will examine resistance movemen...

A well-received response to last year’s offering of a West Side Senior Scholars course prompted Case Western Reserve University’s Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program to return this fall with a new course, “Medieval Christian Pilgrimage: Canterbury, Santiago, Rome and Beyond.” The eight...