Article by History BA alum Sarah Driver in the UMBC Review
Volume 22 (2021) of the UMBC Review is out and features an article by Sarah Driver (History BA, 2019) --
"The Domestic Pianist: The Impact of the Parlor Piano on Middle Class
Domestic Life in Nineteenth Century America" (Advisor: Melissa Blair).
This article is based on Sarah's Undergraduate Honors Thesis.
History Students: Would you like to publish your historical research?
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Advising for the rest of the semester
Dear Students,For those of you who still need to be advised to register for classes for Fall 2021, please consult this document for your advisor's availability:
To make an advising appointment, please email your advisor to suggest a time during their regularly scheduled hours, or, if they advise by appointment, ask when they might be available. PLEASE make sure you email your advisor to confirm a time before you arrive for an advising appointment!
Before arriving to your appointment, please make sure you
Check your degree audit for overall graduation requirements
Check your progress on your History major/minor (the major checklist is here:https://history.umbc.edu/files/2019/04/201920GenReqsWkshtDraft.pdf)
Look at the Fall schedule and see what courses are offered
If you are not sure who your advisor is, you can email me (
mcdonoug@umbc.edu) to find out.
We want all of you to be advised sooner rather than later, so please reach out to your advisor to make your appointment.
Please consider joining three special programs offered by the History Department and UMBC.
1. Accelerated B.A./M.A. Program
History majors considering going on to an M.A. degree in Historical Studies may apply to enter the accelerated B.A./M.A. program. The program allows undergraduate students who take graduate level history courses to have those credits count toward both their B.A. and prospective M.A. degrees at UMBC.
Students should apply in their junior year in order to begin the program during their senior year.
2. Departmental Honors
The Department of History offers a program leading to the award of Departmental Honors at graduation.
To qualify for the Departmental Honors program, a student must be a junior with a 3.5 GPA in their history courses. Students with a lower GPA can petition the History Department's Undergraduate Committee for consideration. There are no requirements concerning overall GPA.
Interested students should consult with a History Department faculty advisor no later than the fall semester of their junior year. To enroll in the program, students must submit the
Departmental Honors Contract to the Department Chair by the last day of the semester before they will begin their Honors Thesis work (May 15th for work beginning in the following Fall semester).
3. Undergraduate Research Award
The University offers funding for undergraduate research through its Undergraduate Research Award (URA) scholarships. URAs provide up to $1,500 to undergraduate students to support their research or creative work with a UMBC faculty mentor on an original project. For more information about these scholarships, eligibility and deadlines, go to the University's
URA webpage.
For some examples of the research projects history majors have undertaken in the past see the
History
section of the University's Undergraduate Research page.
At Blithfield Hall, the ancestral seat of the Bagot family, the ghost of an ancestor roams the corridors. A cache of family letters has been discovered, which seems to hold the answer to the spirit's unrest. The only problem? These missives were penned in the early 17th century and other paranormal investigators have failed to make sense of them. It's up to you to decipher the documents, solve the puzzles, and free the ghost.
Bring your paleographical knowledge and form teams to play, in this live virtual experience. (Small teams of three or four are ideal, but you are welcome to play with a partner or by yourself.) Reservations are required for this event and can be made at
https://forms.gle/xbibi4j4FUYAKVa57Want to brush up on early modern handwriting in the meantime? Check out this
in the Folger Shakespeare Library's Folgerpedia!
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Summer History Courses all sessions-spots still open
Check out the History Department's course offerings for Summer Session I and Session II. With asynchronous and synchronous online options, topics that cross the globe, and 4-6 week sessions, this is a great way to work towards fulfilling your major requirements. See the attachment for a complete list of summer offerings.
Session I (06/01/21-06/25/21)
HIST 347 The United States Since 1945 4 Weeks Howard Smead
Online. Counts towards: Social Sciences (GEP or GFR)
HIST 381 From Samurai to Salariman: Japanese History through Film and Literature 4 Weeks Constantine Vaporis
Online. Counts towards: Culture (GEP or GFR)
HIST 382 Pacific Crossings: Race, War, and Gender in Asian Migrations 4 Weeks Meredith Oyen
Online. Counts towards: Culture (GEP), Social Sciences (GEP)
Session II (07/12/21-08/20/21)
HIST 103 East-Asian Civilization 6 Weeks Julie Oakes
Online Tu/Thu 9:00-12:10. Counts towards: Culture (GEP or GFR), Social Sciences (GEP or GFR)
HIST 320 Atlantic Revolutions on Film 6 Weeks Terry Boulton
Online, asynchronous. Counts towards: Culture (GEP)
UMBC’s History Department and the
Folger Shakespeare Library Host a Virtual Escape Room: The Ghost of Blithfield
Hall: A Special Paleographical Mystery
At Blithfield Hall, the ancestral seat of
the Bagot family, the ghost of an ancestor roams the corridors. A cache of family letters has been
discovered, which seems to hold the answer to the spirit’s unrest. The only problem? These missives were penned in the early 17th
century, and other paranormal investigators have failed to make sense of
them. It’s up to you to decipher the
documents, solve the puzzles, and free the ghost.
Bring your paleographical knowledge and
form teams to play, in this live virtual experience. (Small teams of three or four are ideal, but
you are welcome to play with a partner or by yourself.)
Reservations are required for this event
and can be made athttps://forms.gle/xbibi4j4FUYAKVa57
Want to brush up on early modern
handwriting in the meantime? Check out
this https://folgerpedia.folger.edu/List_of_online_resources_for_early_modern_English_paleography in the Folger Shakespeare Library’s
Folgerpedia!
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Black Power in DC
George Derek Musgrove Launches Online "StoryMap"
George Derek Musgrove, Associate Professor of History, engaged the Imaging Research Center in early 2019 to help him improve upon and sustain a website exploring the history of Black Power organizing in Washington D.C. His goal was to represent the evolution of this influential social movement over space and time through geographic maps, historical photographs and text. The project builds from his book, Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital, co-authored with Chris Myers Asch and published in 2017. We are thrilled to announce the launch of the site today, February 1, 2021!
Please visit Black Power in DC to see this rich and informative visual storytelling project.
And...mark your calendars:
Join us for a Webex discussion with the author about this exciting digital humanities project, on
Thursday, February 25th at 12pm.
More on this event, soon!
Who Will Write Our History documents the history of the clandestine group Oyneg Shabes and the secret archive of Europe's largest ghetto. Led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum, members of Oyneg Shabes documented life in the Warsaw Ghetto, the diversity and culture of the Jewish community, their resistance and resilience, and the crimes of individual German occupiers and the Nazis as a whole. In 1942 and 1943, Oyneg Shabes carefully buried tin boxes and milk cans filled with photographs, objects, and thousands of pages of writings in three locations in the ghetto. Most members of Oyneg Shabes did not survive the Holocaust, Ringelblum included. Those who did quickly went to work to locate the Oyneg Shabes-Ringelblum archive in the rubble that was Warsaw. They unearthed the first cache in 1946, and in 1950 Polish construction workers chanced upon the second; the third remains to be found. Although the elements had rendered many documents illegible and ruined photographs, the surviving archive now tells the story of the suffering, life, culture, and resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto from the perspective of the Jewish community.
To join the Feb. 5 discussion, click on the webex link:
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On this same page, you will see information about upcoming virtual programming from Hampton on Freedom Seeking, After 1864: What Happened Next and Women at Hampton: Scientific Methods. Hampton is also launching virtual Ask a Ranger Programs, which are open-ended opportunities for community members to engage with staff at Hampton and Fort McHenry.
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Phi Alpha Theta Meeting
Interested in Phi Alpha Theta?
INTERESTED
IN PHI ALPHA THETA
(The History Honors Society)?
Informational Meeting
Wed. February 3, 2021
12:00-12:45pm
The UMBC History department is hosting an informational
meeting about Phi Alpha Theta, the national History Honors Society.
To join the UMBC chapter, you must have taken at least
12 credits in history, have a 3.0 overall GPA
and a 3.1 GPA in your
history classes.
Phi Alpha Theta is a great opportunity to connect with
fellow history students, boost your resume, and get a cord to wear at
graduation.
You do not need to be a history major or minor to join,
just meet the above requirement. Phi Alpha Theta is open to undergraduate and
graduate students.
For an application to join PAT:
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Please send application to Carla Ison, ison@umbc.edu
Instructions to join Webex Meeting:
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Meeting number:
120 292 9823
Password:
PsQcHzhn558
Host key:
422827
Cohost:
Amy Froide
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ways to join meeting:
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Join by phone
+1-202-860-2110
United States Toll (Washington D.C.)
Access code: 120
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