Prof. Musgrove in Wash Post about lack of democracy in DC Derek Musgrove and Chris Myers Asch, co-authores of the forth coming book, Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital (UNC Press, 2017) shed light in the Washington Post on how the GOP has opposed self-government in DC.


]]> Derek Musgrove and Chris Myers Asch, co-authores of the forth coming book, Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital (UNC Press, 2017) shed light in the Washington... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2017/09/25/washingtonians-want-a-voice-in-congress-republicans-say-no-but-it-wasnt-always-that-way/ https://beta.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/70527/guest@my.umbc.edu/c69a24a3c2529a6245dbcf304bffae9d/api/pixel History Department News and Events https://beta.my.umbc.edu/groups/history https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/xsmall.png?1582059722 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/original.png?1582059722 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/xxlarge.png?1582059722 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/xlarge.png?1582059722 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/large.png?1582059722 https://assets4-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/medium.png?1582059722 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/small.png?1582059722 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/xsmall.png?1582059722 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/xxsmall.png?1582059722 History Department News and Events 4 0 true Tue, 26 Sep 2017 21:17:58 -0400 Tue, 26 Sep 2017 21:19:02 -0400 History Faculty in the News Major Research Awards Profs. Chapin, Oyen, Brown, Boehling and Kars received major National and International Fellowships last year.  Read all about it here. ]]> Profs. Chapin, Oyen, Brown, Boehling and Kars received major National and International Fellowships last year.  Read all about it here. http://news.umbc.edu/christy-ford-chapin-begins-library-of-congress-fellowship-continuing-history-facultys-trend-of-research-achievement/ https://beta.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/70524/guest@my.umbc.edu/c1169776f90fa30ad314f29a767be5e7/api/pixel History Department News and Events https://beta.my.umbc.edu/groups/history https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/xsmall.png?1582059722 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/original.png?1582059722 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/xxlarge.png?1582059722 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/xlarge.png?1582059722 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/large.png?1582059722 https://assets4-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/medium.png?1582059722 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/small.png?1582059722 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/xsmall.png?1582059722 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/xxsmall.png?1582059722 History Department News and Events 3 0 true Tue, 26 Sep 2017 21:09:39 -0400 Tue, 26 Sep 2017 21:10:09 -0400 History Alum Kristina Gaddy ('09) on Confederate Monuments
History Alum, Kristina Gaddy ('09) is making a living as a history researcher and writer. Here is a segment from a June 2017 Marc Steiner show, along with the website Gaddy co-created, on the history behind the Lee-Jackson monument in Baltimore. 

This provides some context to a topic that is currently in the news: What should we do with symbols of the Confederacy in Public Places?

http://leejacksonmonument.weebly.com/ ]]> History Alum, Kristina Gaddy ('09) is making a living as a history researcher and writer. Here is a segment from a June 2017 Marc Steiner show, along with the website Gaddy co-created, on the... https://beta.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/69445/guest@my.umbc.edu/b9aeb1a018cfc6c66aa175d2890ae6c7/api/pixel History Department News and Events https://beta.my.umbc.edu/groups/history https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/xsmall.png?1582059722 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/original.png?1582059722 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/xxlarge.png?1582059722 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/xlarge.png?1582059722 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/large.png?1582059722 https://assets4-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/medium.png?1582059722 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/small.png?1582059722 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/xsmall.png?1582059722 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/xxsmall.png?1582059722 History Department News and Events 2 0 true Mon, 14 Aug 2017 15:34:25 -0400 Professors Christy Chapin and Amy Froide receive Promotions Congratulations to Prof. Christy Chapin who has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure!

And congratulations to Prof. Amy Froide who has been promoted to Full Professor!
]]> Congratulations to Prof. Christy Chapin who has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure! And congratulations to Prof. Amy Froide who has been promoted to Full Professor! https://beta.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/68127/guest@my.umbc.edu/3e63b391da2d3b2842e463a315c1e31c/api/pixel History Department News and Events https://beta.my.umbc.edu/groups/history https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/xsmall.png?1582059722 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/original.png?1582059722 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/xxlarge.png?1582059722 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/xlarge.png?1582059722 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/large.png?1582059722 https://assets4-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/medium.png?1582059722 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/small.png?1582059722 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/xsmall.png?1582059722 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/xxsmall.png?1582059722 History Department News and Events 18 2 true Tue, 16 May 2017 12:51:01 -0400 Prof. Constantine Vaporis to give invited lecture in Sweden

Constantine Vaporis (History) has been invited to deliver a lecture at a one-day seminar on the topic of “The Making of the Samurai in Tokugawa Japan.”The title of his lecture is “Performance, Display, and the Spectacular: The ‘Great Peace’ and Samurai Culture in Tokugawa Japan.”  The seminar is funded by the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation of Stockholm, Sweden, and will take place this May 18, 2017. The conference will be held at Engelsberg Ironworks--a UNESCO world heritage site.

 

]]> Constantine Vaporis (History) has been invited to deliver a lecture at a one-day seminar on the topic of “The Making of the Samurai in Tokugawa Japan.”The title of his lecture is “Performance,... https://beta.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/67760/guest@my.umbc.edu/5bb57507b8c4090255c672816688a480/api/pixel History Department News and Events https://beta.my.umbc.edu/groups/history https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/xsmall.png?1582059722 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/original.png?1582059722 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/xxlarge.png?1582059722 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/xlarge.png?1582059722 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/large.png?1582059722 https://assets4-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/medium.png?1582059722 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/small.png?1582059722 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/xsmall.png?1582059722 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/xxsmall.png?1582059722 History Department News and Events 5 0 true Tue, 02 May 2017 10:37:56 -0400 Announcing the Undergraduate History Award Winners for 2017 Congratulations to the following undergraduate award winners:

History Department Achievement Award: 
Marshal Golden

John Bell-Clifford Maas Prize for Academic Excellence:
Taylor Culliton
Alan Gibson
Julian Tash

Joseph D. Reese Memorial Prize (for best research paper):
Dylan Elliott
Deborah Farthing

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Congratulations to the History graduate students who have successfully defended their Masters' theses this Spring!


Kelly Daughtridge (Advisor: Amy Froide)
"Defining Their Past to Immortalize Their Future: Women’s Monuments in Early Modern England"

Katherine Fusick (Advisor: Amy Froide) 
"Ladies in Rebellion: Women of the 1715 and 1745 Jacobite Risings"

Andrew Holter (Advisor: Derek Musgrove) 
 “The Vanguard is Never Caught Napping: Informants and Police Inside the Black Panthers in Baltimore, 1968-1972”

Sarah Huston (Advisor: Anne Rubin)
"The Lives of Enslaved and Free Black Children in Baltimore Under Apprenticeship Laws, 1790-1840"

Jennifer Montooth (Advisor: Derek Musgrove)
“Bridges to Dignity”: Roy Innis, Conservative Black Power, and the Transformation of CORE, 1968-1998

Chelsea Mueller (Advisor: Meredith Oyen)
"Books Mirrored Societal Events in American Culture From 1954-1990"

Boost Post
]]> Congratulations to the History graduate students who have successfully defended their Masters' theses this Spring! Kelly Daughtridge (Advisor: Amy Froide) "Defining Their Past to Immortalize... https://beta.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/67573/guest@my.umbc.edu/32b69b6c23b808993e28dfab536cb8e3/api/pixel History Department News and Events https://beta.my.umbc.edu/groups/history https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/xsmall.png?1582059722 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/original.png?1582059722 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/xxlarge.png?1582059722 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/xlarge.png?1582059722 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/large.png?1582059722 https://assets4-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/medium.png?1582059722 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/small.png?1582059722 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/xsmall.png?1582059722 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/xxsmall.png?1582059722 History Department News and Events 4 0 true Tue, 25 Apr 2017 15:11:21 -0400 History students present research at URCAD ]]> Dylan Elliott | History Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: The Balancing Act of Maryland’s Intendant of the Revenue Mentor(s): Terry Bouton UC 312 | 2:15 – 2:30 p.m. Debbie Farthing | History... http://urcad.umbc.edu/documents/ https://beta.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/67535/guest@my.umbc.edu/7bf25c2a0ae004a59c8d74c3b4cdcc16/api/pixel History Department News and Events https://beta.my.umbc.edu/groups/history https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/xsmall.png?1582059722 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/original.png?1582059722 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/xxlarge.png?1582059722 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/xlarge.png?1582059722 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/large.png?1582059722 https://assets4-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/medium.png?1582059722 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/small.png?1582059722 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/xsmall.png?1582059722 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/xxsmall.png?1582059722 History Department News and Events 2 0 true Mon, 24 Apr 2017 14:29:23 -0400 Prof. Andrew Nolan wins Kendall Service Award
Congratulations to Professor Andrew Nolan who has been selected for the 2017 Program Director of the Year Kendall Service Award!  Prof. Nolan is the Program Director for the UMBC History Department at the Universities of Shady Grove campus. The History program is one of the biggest on the USG campus. Go check it out!

]]> Congratulations to Professor Andrew Nolan who has been selected for the 2017 Program Director of the Year Kendall Service Award!  Prof. Nolan is the Program Director for the UMBC History... https://beta.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/67176/guest@my.umbc.edu/1d2956d4feac235c270f326a7854a024/api/pixel History Department News and Events https://beta.my.umbc.edu/groups/history https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/xsmall.png?1582059722 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/original.png?1582059722 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/xxlarge.png?1582059722 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/xlarge.png?1582059722 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/large.png?1582059722 https://assets4-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/medium.png?1582059722 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/small.png?1582059722 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/xsmall.png?1582059722 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/496/0e975254c6e211f21a5cca6eb2cf1a82/xxsmall.png?1582059722 History Department News and Events 4 0 true Wed, 12 Apr 2017 11:50:45 -0400 Emeritus History Prof. John Jeffries publishes new book Professor and Dean Emeritus John Jeffries just published a new book. Congratulations to Professor Jeffries.

A Third Term for FDR: The Election of 1940 (University of Kansas Press, 2017).

978-0-7006-2402-7

March 2017

276 pages

American Presidential Elections

 - $34.95 
ISBN 978-0-7006-2402-7


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