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Gillian Weiss, associate professor in the Department of History, co-wrote a piece with Meredith Martin of New York University examining artwork during the Great Plague. The piece, titled “The Art of Plague and Panic: Marseille, 1720” and published in Platform, outlines the relationship between artwo...

Andrea Milne, lecturer in history and SAGES teaching fellow, understands how a mentor can change a young student’s life. While a freshman at Bryn Mawr College, Milne got “stuck” in a U.S. history course due to scheduling issues. She had no plans to study history in college, but her professor changed...

John Grabowski, the Krieger-Mueller Joint Professor in the Department of History and senior vice president for research and publications at the Western Reserve Historical Society, will offer a free remote lecture through the CWRU-Siegal Lifelong Learning Program. Grabowski will present “War and Pest...

As the COVID-19 pandemic overwhelms health care systems and disrupts industries worldwide, daily life may feel like uncharted territory. But the truth is, we’ve been here before: More than a century ago, the Spanish flu of 1918 worked its way across the globe, prompting many of the same public hea...

Visiting Assistant Professor of History Einav Rabinovitch-Fox research focuses on women and gender in the United States during the 20th century. She analyzes how visual and material culture has shaped and reflected class, gender, and racial identities—especially how women have used fashion as a form...

In 2016, after a long referendum campaign, British citizens shocked politicians, journalists, academics, pollsters, and even themselves by voting to leave the European Union (EU). The Department of English will host Luke Reader, a SAGES teaching fellow in the Department of History, for a discussion ...

Vicki Daniel, SAGES teaching fellow and instructor of history, wrote a review of the documentary Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America for Nursing CLIO. The documentary explores unique ways memorial services can be held according to the wishes of the person who passed away. Daniel’s rev...

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community can attend a talk and Q&A session with Walter Hixson, a distinguished professor of history at the University of Akron. This event, titled “How the Israel Lobby Distorts the Palestinian Conflict,” will be held Thursday, Oct. 17, from 5 to 6:30 ...

The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a Graduate Work-in-Progress lecture titled “Birthing Nature: Why One Childbirth Drug Was Natural and Another Was Not” Oct. 15 from noon to 1 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206. Naomi Rendina, a PhD candidate in the Department of History, will present. T...

The Scholems: A Story of the German-Jewish Bourgeoisie from Emancipation to Destruction, by Jay Geller, the Samuel Rosenthal Professor of Judaic Studies, was one of 14 titles recently long-listed for the Cundill History Prize. Annually, McGill University in Montreal honors what it considers to be t...