History

  • Professors appointed to Klein, Scotland endowed chairs

    Clark University President David P. Angel recently announced the appointment of Professor Douglas Little as the first holder of the new Robert H. and Virginia N. Scotland Endowed Chair in History and International Relations at Clark University and the appointment of Professor of Political Science Sharon Krefetz as the next holder of the Andrea B. and Peter D. ’64 Klein Distinguished Professorship. The…

  • Professor Paul Ropp’s new book examines China in World History

    Paul S. Ropp, research professor of history at Clark University, recently published “China in World History” (Oxford University Press 2010). The book is a compact history of Chinese political, economic, and cultural life, ranging from the origins of civilization in China to the beginning of the 21st century. “China has experienced 300 years of social…

  • Clark Guggenheim Fellow explores societies ‘struggling for beauty’

    Thomas Kuehne, Clark University Professor of History and Strassler Family Chair in the Study of Holocaust History, was recently awarded a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in support of his proposed book-length essay, “Struggling for Beauty.” “Struggling for Beauty” will focus on the rise of “beauty” in modern world societies since the 18th-century Enlightenment,…

  • Steinbrecher fellow’s Nez Perce exhibit opens at Strassler Center

    Last summer, Clark University senior Mikal Brotnov used the funding he received from the Steinbrecher Fellowship Program to travel to Seattle, Washington and Kamiah, Idaho, to research the Nez Perce Nation and to photographically document the rituals of the Nimiipuu (as the Nez Perce call themselves). Brotnov, who grew up on the Nez Perce reservation, has put…

  • Strassler Center offers access to Shoah Foundation visual archives

    Clark University among 25 institutions worldwide linked to 52,000 Holocaust testimonies

  • Workshop Considers State of the Art of Armenian Genocide Research

    Experts, Scholars to Hold Ground-breaking Workshop; Public Invited to April 9 Program on ‘Armenian Genocide: 95 Years Later’

  • Bland-Lee history lectures to focus on Cold War, hot topics

    Historian Marilyn Young will deliver this year’s Bland-Lee lectures, “Necessary Wars of Choice:  Counterinsurgency and the American Way of War” and “Korea:  Turning up the Heat on the Cold War,”respectively at Clark University on Wednesday, March 17, and Thursday, March 18, at 4 p.m. in the Grace Conference Room of the Higgins University Center, 950 Main…