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Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to join Provost and Executive Vice President Ben Vinson III and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences for a special event titled “Reckoning with Organizational History” Monday, June 14, from 4 to 5 p.m. via Zoom. Over the last f...

By John Garcia While students' focus might be on the end of spring classes, the fall semester will be here soon enough. Undergraduate registration for the fall semester starts today (April 26); depending on the school, graduate program registration may already have started or may begin in the comin...

The history of African Americans traveling to and working and living in Europe offers a rich archive through which to explore historical tensions between American notions of freedom and citizenship in the United States and Europe. Freedom Abroad: The History of African Americans in Europe is a mo...

The Department of Sociology, Department of History and African and African American Studies will collaborate to host a talk by Whitney N. Laster Pirtle, assistant professor of sociology and McArthur Foundation Chair in International Justice and Human Rights at the University of California, Merced. L...

By Jonathan Sadowsky, the Castele Professor of Medical History I often start a new class by asking why we should study history. I don’t allow the cliché “History repeats itself,” without specific examples. The history of epidemics provides some: racist scapegoating, denialism, resistance to public...

Die Scholems: Geschichte einer deutsch-jüdischen Familie, a book by Jay Geller—the Samuel Rosenthal Professor of Judaic Studies—was named a runner-up for the Sachbücher des Monats prize, given to the best non-fiction book in Germany each month. The prize is awarded by an independent jury of scholar...

The Office of the Provost will host the third installment in the North Star Seminar series—“A Conversation with the Honorable Gil Cisneros on the Role of Society, Universities, and Achieving our Common Purpose”—today (Feb. 23) at 5 p.m. The event will feature the Honorable Gil Cisneros, a philanthro...

Jay Geller, the Samuel Rosenthal Professor of Judaic Studies and professor of history at the College of Arts and Sciences, was the subject of a broadcast on Deutschlandfunk, a German national public radio station. Geller discussed the Scholem family, which was the subject of his book The Scholems: ...

Though the fall leaves on campus may make spring feel far in the future, Case Western Reserve University students will be thinking about the season in the coming days—undergraduate registration for the spring semester begins next Monday, Nov. 16 (depending on the school; graduate program registratio...

Gillian Weiss, associate professor of history, co-wrote an article with New York University art historian Meredith Martin and New York-based graphic designer Bonnie Siegler for History News Network. In their piece—titled "Trump: Superhero or Superspreader?"—they wrote about a medal recently created...