by | April 14, 2015 · 9:00 am

Fall Courses: The City and the Country in America (Stoll)

 

 

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Another new course on offer in Fall 2015 will be HIST 5733 The City and the County in America. Offered by Professor Steven Stoll, this course explores the history of the country and the city as natural environments and symbolic landscapes through the works of historians, artists, and poets. It covers the period from the Revolution through the twentieth century, with special attention to the nineteenth century. Topics include Appalachia, slavery, and sharecropping; Lewis Mumford and Jane Jacobs; romantic landscape painting and Central Park.

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by | April 12, 2015 · 9:47 pm

Fall Courses: Nationalisms and Racisms in Modern Europe (Patriarca)

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As registration for Fall graduate courses is upon us, we will be profiling the courses offered in the department in Fall 2015. Professor Silvana Patriarca will be offering a new course, HIST 5561 Nationalisms and Racisms in Modern Europe. The course deals with an exciting area of research currently being explored by Professor Patriarca and some of her students. Read on for a description of the course and what can be expected for those who enroll.  Continue reading →

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by | April 10, 2015 · 7:13 pm

Winner of the Loomie Prize 2014!

Tobias Hrynick, winner of the 2014 Loomie Prize

Tobias Hrynick, winner of the 2014 Loomie Prize

At a gathering of the History Department on its Spring Open Day, we announced the winners of the Loomie Prize. Each year, the Loomie prize is awarded to the best seminar paper produced during the previous academic year.  All M.A. and Ph.D. students who have taken the proseminar/seminar sequence or a research tutorial are eligible.

 The judges unanimously selected Tobias Hrynick as the winner for 2014, awarding an honorable mention to Stephen Leccesse. Hrynick’s paper, “The Customs of Romney Marsh: Compromise and Common Interest in Wetland Administration,” was written under the supervision of Maryanne Kowaleski for the Medieval History proseminar “Medieval England.”  Leccese’s paper “Emerging From the Sub-Cellar: John D. Rockefeller, Standard Oil, and the Rise of Corporate Public Relations in Progressive America, 1902-1908,”  was written under the supervision of Christopher Dietrich. For more information about the Loomie prize papers, read on… Continue reading →

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by | March 15, 2015 · 3:20 pm

Alexandra Lord, “Careers for Historians” talk 3/24

On March 24th (the Tuesday after Spring Break), Alexandra Lord, a former tenure- track professor and now a National Parks Service public historian (and the force behind the websites Beyond Academe and The Ultimate History Project), will speak to GSAS students about alternative career possibilities beyond the academy.

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All history graduate students, undergraduates, and faculty are welcome!
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by | February 22, 2015 · 3:59 pm

PhD Student Laurence Jurdem Publishes Article on Pair of Communists Turned Cold Warriors

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Laurence Jurdem

Fordham History graduate student Laurence Jurdem has published “James Burnham, Sidney Hook and the Search for Intellectual Truth: From Communism to the Cold War, 1933-1956,” in the latest issue of American Communist History 13:2-3 (2014). The article, which originated as a paper in the US History seminar with Dr. Daniel Soyer, discusses the intellectual odyssey of the conservative foreign policy columnist James Burnham and the public intellectual Sidney Hook. Jurdem examines how the two academics were first fascinated and then disillusioned with the ideas of Karl Marx. That intellectual shift played a decisive role in causing the two men to spend the rest of their careers as advocates for the destruction of the Soviet Union. Jurdem is currently completing his dissertation, entitled “The Power to Define Reality: The Influence of Conservative Media on American Foreign Policy 1964-1984”.

Congratulations, Laurence!

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by | February 12, 2015 · 4:14 am

Fordham Seniors Selected for Early American Studies Workshop

John Taylor & Sons, the brewery at the center of a libel lawsuit brought against the teetotaler Edward Delavan

John Taylor & Sons, the brewery at the center of a libel lawsuit brought against the teetotaler Edward Delavan

Two FCRH seniors, Tim Derocher and Chris Nolan, were recently selected to participate in the McNeil Center for Early American Studies’ annual Undergraduate Research Workshop at the University of Pennsylvania. Together, Nolan and Derocher will present a panel on two unique libel cases in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a product of research completed for Dr. Elaine Forman Crane’s “Laws and Outlaws in Early America” seminar. Over the next few months, they will be working with a graduate mentor from Penn to enhance their research and form a more cohesive panel on libel and slander cases in early America, which will be presented in April in Philadelphia. Read on to learn more about their research. Continue reading →

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by | February 11, 2015 · 4:29 pm

Digital Mapping Workshop, Wednesday February 11 2-5PM in LL 106

The Topics in Digital Mapping will convene another meeting on the topic: Thinking about Time with Maps: Timelines and Palladio

Digital map makers are often interested in animating the spatial visualization over time or linking their maps to a timeline. This workshop will introduce participants to how to map changes in time using Palladio.
Sample data-sets will include a project mapping medieval English libraries and the dates of their surviving manuscripts.

Wednesday, February 11
Fordham Lincoln Center LL 1106

Session Recap and Meet and Greet: 2:00-3:00
Workshop: 3:00-5:00

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by | February 10, 2015 · 1:49 am

Gauthier to Speak About US Portrayals of North Korea at NYU

Screenshot 2015-02-09 20.48.19Readers of this blog will be familiar with the achievements of Fordham PhD student Brandon Gauthier. In addition to publishing an  e-Dossier for the North Korea International Documentation Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, which provides primary documents on DPRK public diplomacy in the U.S. during the 1970s, Brandon also published a guest column for the Shreveport Times on U.S. diplomacy towards North Korea after the release of the film The Interview.

On Thursday, February 12, he will present at NYU’s Center for the United States and the Cold War Seminar Series.  His talk will be titled: “‘Bullwhip Barbarians…the Worst of This Breed’: Postwar Portrayals of ‘North Korea’ in the U.S. media, 1953-1963.”  The event will take place from 5-7 PM at the NYU Tamiment Library (Bobst Library,10th Floor) at 70 Washington Square South. Come along and hear about Brandon’s latest research!

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by | · 1:32 am

Prize-Winning Article Appears in Portuguese Collection

40098While it is not unusual for books to appear in translation, especially if they are in a second printing or edition, it is much less common for articles to be translated, especially so soon after their original publication. It is a mark of the importance of the scholarship within Yuko Miki’s prize-winning article  “Fleeing into Slavery: The Insurgent Geographies of Brazilian Quilombolas (Maroons), 1880-1881″ that it has been published in translation only two years after its original publication in the journal The Americas 68:4 (2012). The article, translated by Miki and Giovana Xavier, has now appeared in Flávio Gomes and Petrônio Domingues, eds, POLÍTICAS DA RAÇA: Experiências e legados da abolição e da pós-emancipação no Brasil (São Paulo: Selo Negro, 2014). The department is thrilled to hear that Miki’s scholarship will now be available to a larger audience of scholars in Brazil!

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by | December 16, 2014 · 10:47 pm

Fordham Student Presents at History Honors Conference

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Megan McLaughlin stands next to the statue of Roger Williams after the conference

Earlier this semester, Fordham senior Megan McLaughlin presented her first conference paper at the Phi Alpha Theta Northeastern Regional Conference at Roger Williams University. The paper that she presented was written for Professor Elaine Crane’s class “The American Revolution.” Read on for Megan’s account of her paper and the conference.  Continue reading →

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