News and Events
Events:
September 2024
- Tuesday, September 17th from 12:30-1:45pm, Bowman 317 - Research Colloquium: Richard Steigmann-Gall, "Lies My Father Told Me: Identity, Memory, and Biography"
- Friday, September 27th from 10-11:30am, Bowman 137 - Homecoming, with May 4 Center: "An American Tragedy: Kent State on the Page"
- Friday, September 27th from 11:30am-12:30pm, Bowman 218 - Homecoming reception
- Friday, September 27th from 2:30-4:00pm, Bowman 102 - Departmental Meeting
October 2024
- Thursday, October 17th from 12:30-1:45pm, Bowman 137 - Timothy Walker guest speaker, with BSCI and ESCI, "Sailing to Freedom: Recovering and Re-centering the Maritime Dimension of the Underground Railroad"
- Thursday, October 17th starting at 4pm, McGilvery 302 - Timothy Walker guest speaker, with BSCI and ESCI, "Climate Change and Historical Research: Extracting Global Maritime Weather Data from Age-of-Sail Ships' Logbooks (1740-1960)"
- Friday, October 18th starting at 10am, Cunningham Hall Annex 108 - Timothy Walker guest speaker, with BSCI and ESCI, session for graduate students in History, BSCI, and ESCI on doing interdisciplinary research, especially bringing the humanities and sciences together
November 2024
- Friday, November 8th from 2:30-4:00pm, Bowman 102 - Departmental Meeting
- Tuesday, November 12th from 12:30-1:45pm, Bowman 317 - Research Colloquium: Ken Bindas
- Wednesday, November 20th starting at 5pm, KSU Bookstore - Book Celebration to mark publication of: Kenneth Bindas, The New Deal and American Society, 1933-1941; Leonne M. Hudson, Black Americans in Mourning: Reactions to the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln; Hongshan Li, Fighting on the Cultural Front: U.S.-China Relations in the Cold War; E. Sue Wamsley, A Hemisphere of Women: The Founding and Development of the Inter-American Commission, 1915-1939.
December 2024
- Friday, December 6th from 2:30-4:00pm, Bowman 102 - Departmental Meeting
April 2025
- Friday - Saturday, April 11th to 12th - Ohio Academy & Phi Alpha Theta Meeting
News:
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In a quiet office at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, Michele Curran Cornell spends her weekdays immersed in history — not the kind found in textbooks, but the kind that impacts families and honors those who gave everything for our country. As a historian at the Department of…
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Matthew Vajda, a doctoral student in the Department of History at Kent State University, has been selected as one of only two recipients of a coveted $15,000 fellowship stipend from the U.S. Army Center of Military History for the academic…
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Western Reserve Historical Society and Kent State have announced a cooperation agreement enabling unique access and real-world experiences for students and faculty in the Department of History. Kent State students will gain access to archival research materials for research…
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The development of liquid crystal technology in Northeast Ohio - and specifically at Kent State University - is an important part of the region’s and university’s legacies and ongoing global impact.
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Have you ever wondered how Asian Americans helped win the Allied victory? What inspired Hemingway’s writings while in Paris? How has Wonder Woman impacted comics, feminism, and pop culture over the past 80 years? The diverse faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences have you…
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Kent State University Associate Professor Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor has authored a perspective piece on racial equality that is featured in the July 15 Washington Post column, “Made by History.”
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It is sad to report the passing of Dr. Lawrence Kaplan at the age of 95. Larry passed away in Florida on April 10, 2020. Everyone who knew Larry will be able to cherish and celebrate his legacy and contributions to our lives and the department. Many Alumni and colleagues will…
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The KSU undergraduate Model NATO team did an excellent job again this year representing Kent State in regional and international competitions.
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On February 29, 2020, the History Department at Kent State University hosted a research symposium entitled, “The May 4th Event and New Directions in Scholarship on the Vietnam War.” The symposium, as organized by History professors Kevin Adams, Ann Heiss, and Shane Strate, had…