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Unit: History
International Education Week celebrates ties with the world
Ambassador Roman Macaya will highlight the first-ever International Education Week at Illinois State University with a talk on November 17.
Varga-Harris publishes monograph on Soviet apartment life
Christine Varga-Harris’ impressively researched and elegantly written monograph, “Stories of House and Home: Soviet Apartment Life during the Khrushchev Years,” has just been published by Cornell University Press.
Three History faculty receive 2015 College of Arts and Sciences awards
Dr. Stewart Winger, Dr. Amy Wood and Dr. Ross Kennedy receive 2015 College of Arts and Sciences Awards.
REACTIONS: 22 shipwrecks found in the Aegean
Georgia Tsouvala weighs in on the discovery of 22 shipwrecks in the Aegean.
Alan Lessoff named Obama Fellow
Illinois State University Professor of History Alan Lessoff has been named the spring 2016 Obama Fellow at the Transnational Institute for American Studies (ITAS) at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany.
Nominations sought for Peace Prize
The Peace and Conflict Resolution Studies Program at Illinois State University is accepting nominations and self-nominations for the Grabill-Homan Community Peace Prize. Applications must be received no later than January 31, 2016.
Reactions: European migration differs from post-World War II
Professor of History Richard Soderlund says the comparison of today’s mass migration to post-World War II is misleading.
Redbird media: Books and recordings by ISU scholars
The following is a list of books and audio and video recordings released by Illinois State University faculty in the second half of 2014 and the first half of 2015:
Historian to speak on Lincoln, black Union soldiers during the Civil War
Historian John David Smith will talk about Abraham Lincoln’s goals for African American recruits into the Union army during the Civil War at 7 p.m. Thursday, October 8.