history
April 07, 2015
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…
March 02, 2015
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…
February 27, 2015
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…
February 19, 2015
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.
September 19, 2014
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…
August 22, 2014
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…
August 12, 2014
Case Western Reserve University historian John Grabowski and three university students created a history of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in Cleveland in a new exhibit at the Western Reserve Historical Society (WRHS). The exhibit, “The Victory of Self: The LGBT…
July 25, 2014
The French translation of, Captives and Corsairs: France and Slavery in the Early Modern Mediterranean, by Gillian Weiss,associate professor and director of undergraduate studies in the Department of History, was featured in the literary supplement of Le Monde, the leading French-language…
June 25, 2014
Since the Cleveland Play House’s founding in 1915, it yearned to find a place to call home, establish financial stability and define its mission. Those challenges are the backbone of America’s First Regional Theatre: The Cleveland Play House and its Search for a Home (Palgrave Studies in Theatre…
June 04, 2014
After exploring the environmental impact of the American obsession with green lawns in his last book, Case Western Reserve University historian Ted Steinberg now has turned his attention to the environmental footprint of one of the world’s most iconic cities: New York. A native New Yorker,…