Assistant Professor of History Charles Musgrove has published his book, China’s Contested Capital: Architecture, Ritual and Response in Nanjing (University of Hawai’i Press). The book has also been published in Asia by the Hong Kong University Press.
Brodsky Invited to Lecture at University of California, Irvine
Associate Professor of History Adriana Brodsky will present the lecture “Between Community and Aliyah: Young Sephardim in the 1960s” at the University of California, Irvine on November 4. The lecture is part of the university’s Jewish Studies event, “Transnational, Diasporic and Local Challenges: Argentine Jews in the 20th Century.”
St. Mary’s College’s Megan O’Hern Wins First Prize at Regional History Honor Society Conference
Megan O’Hern, a history major at St. Mary’s College, won first prize at the 2013 Phi Alpha Theta Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference, which was held at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, WV, on March 23. Her award-winning paper is titled “The Devil Didn’t Make You Do It: The Puritan Clerical Discourse on Satan in Seventeenth-Century New England.” Find out more »
Megan O’Hern Wins First Prize at Regional History Honor Society Conference
Megan O’Hern, a history major at St. Mary’s College, won first prize at the 2013 Phi Alpha Theta Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference, which was held at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, WV, on March 23. Her award-winning paper is titled “The Devil Didn’t Make You Do It: The Puritan Clerical Discourse on Satan in Seventeenth-Century New England.” Find out more »
Zamanakos Lecture “Why Women’s Votes Count: Women’s Suffrage Worldwide”
The History Department at St. Mary’s College of Maryland is pleased to present “Why Women’s Votes Count: Women’s Suffrage Worldwide,” for its bi-annual Zamanakos lecture. On Wednesday, October 3, at 8 p.m. in the college’s St. Mary’s Hall, historian Karen Offen will discuss the complex history of women’s quest for citizenship—especially political rights—around the world. Find out more »
St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s History Department Presents “Comrades in The Cosmos: Soviet Science Fiction Film Series”
The History Department of St. Mary’s College of Maryland is pleased to present “Comrades in the Cosmos: Soviet Science Fiction Film Series.” The Soviet Union had a great tradition of science fiction, which has remained largely unknown in the U.S. These films dramatize issues of the threats and potential of technology, the limits and nature Find out more »
St. Mary’s College of Maryland History Class Creates Website for Southern Maryland Tourism Commission
A St. Mary’s College of Maryland history class recently completed a semester-long website project for the Southern Maryland Tourism Commission. The website applies primary and secondary source material to explain the War of 1812 and its impact on Southern Maryland, as well as advertise commemorative events in the region from 2012-2015. “The Early American Republic” Find out more »
History Class Creates Website for Southern Maryland Tourism Commission
A St. Mary’s College of Maryland history class recently completed a semester-long website project for the Southern Maryland Tourism Commission. The website applies primary and secondary source material to explain the War of 1812 and its impact on Southern Maryland, as well as advertise commemorative events in the region from 2012-2015. Read more.
Pioneer of Underground Comics to Visit St. Mary’s College
Denis Kitchen, pioneer of underground comics and pop culture and founder of the Kitchen Sink Press, publisher of some of the most innovative comics for 30 years, shares his stories in a public lecture at 8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 6, in Auerbach Auditorium of St. Mary’s Hall at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. He will Find out more »
Civil War Expert Visits St. Mary’s College Sept. 22
Renowned Civil War expert Peter S. Carmichael will address the controversial legend that slaves willingly supported the Confederacy during the nation’s traumatic Civil War at a public lecture at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22, in Auerbach Auditorium of St. Mary’s Hall, St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Carmichael is director of the Civil War Institute at Find out more »