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Just days before the 2016 presidential election, Harvard historian James Kloppenberg will compare the campaign to similar turbulent moments in American history in a speech and discussion at Case Western Reserve University. Free and open to the public, the event is Nov. 3 at 7:30 p.m. in the Tinkham...

John Broich, an associate professor of history, wrote an article in which he challenged 16 historians to explain if Donald Trump is a fascist or not. His article appeared in History News Network and cited scholars' reasoning behind whether or not Trump is a fascist (most said no). Read his article...

By Sydney Otto Some members of the Case Western Reserve University community may recognize a familiar face at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janerio, where opening ceremonies begin tonight. Though not a competitor, Alicia Kendig, who received her master’s degree from Case Western Reserve in 200...

Five Case Western Reserve University faculty members were featured in C-SPAN’s Cities Tour. With Local Content Vehicles, C-SPAN visited Cleveland May 21-27 to highlight the history and literary figures in the area. The interviews aired June 16-17. Karen Beckwith, the Flora Stone Mather Professor a...

Alan Rocke is retiring, but it’s a little hard to tell. “There’s not much free time looking forward,” said Rocke, who taught the history of the physical sciences as a Distinguished University Professor and the Henry Eldridge Bourne Professor of History. “Things won’t change much.” Though Rocke wil...

Peter Shulman, associate professor of history, won the senior Moroney Award for Scholarship on Postal History for an article he wrote last summer. His article, "Ben Franklin's Ghost: World Peace, American Slavery, and the Global Politics of Information before the Universal Postal Union," was publis...

Earlier this month, John Grabowski, the Krieger Mueller Associate Professor of Applied History, gave a lecture at Bilkent University in Turkey. Grabowski’s lecture, titled “İhsan Doğramacı and the History of an Idea,” was part of the Bilkent Day Program. The day honors the birth of the university’...

On the afternoon of May 4, 1970, a large number of Case Western Reserve University students were in the campus quad protesting the Vietnam War’s expansion into Cambodia, when word spread of Ohio National Guard soldiers shooting—and killing four—unarmed students at Kent State University, just 34 mile...

Kelvin Smith Library will host 2015 Freedman Fellow and Associate Professor of History Gillian Weiss for a talk on her project “The Jewish View on CWRU: Campus Activism, 1967-1973.” During her talk, held Wednesday, April 6, at noon in the library’s Freedman Center, she will discuss how her project ...

This week’s Faculty Friday event for students will feature a casual discussion on climate March 18 from 12:30 to 1:45 p.m. at the Happy Dog. Peter Shulman, associate professor of history, will present "Energy and Climate in American History.” Shulman studies technology, science and American politi...