Professor Tom Barrett was passionate about encouraging students to ask tough questions of the past and produce high quality work in their effort to answer those questions. In this spirit therefore, the History Department announces the creation of the Thomas M. Barrett Memorial Award for Undergraduate Research. Would you like to make a donation? Here’s Find out more »
Archives for 2016
SMCM History Alumni will return to campus to talk about life after college!
Interested in Graduate School? MAT programs? Public History? Jobs on the base? Library Science? Not sure yet? They will discuss their experiences and the strategies that worked (and those that did not). View the event on the SMCM calendar
New Faculty Publication
The History Department celebrated the recent publication of Female Beauty Systems: Beauty as Social Capital in Western Europe and the United States, Middle Ages to the Present (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015), co-edited by Dr. Christine Adams (History) and Dr. Tracy Adams (University of Auckland, Comparative Literature). Besides essays by the co-editors, the book also included articles by St. Find out more »
The Center for the Study of Democracy and the History Department Present: Rahsaan Roland Kirk: The Case of the Three Sided Dream (a film by Adam Kahan, 2015)
Thursday Feb. 25, 8:00 pm, Cole Cinema Rahsaan Roland Kirk (1935-1977) was more than a blind musician who could play three horns at once, more than one of the most amazing sax players who ever lived. Beyond the ability to play multiple melodies at the same time, he was a warrior against racial injustice, fought Find out more »
Student’s paper accepted at Undergraduate Judaic Studies Conference at Princeton
Michael Abrams has been invited to present a paper, entitled “Fiddler on the Streets: How Activists Used Jewish-American Popular Culture to Mobilize a Movement,” that he wrote for the 400-level History course “Mass Culture and the Making of the Modern.” The Undergraduate Judaic Studies Conference where Michael will present his work will take place at Find out more »