Come one, come all, to the first end of the year history department barbecue! On Wednesday, May 5th from 3-5 p.m. (the last day of classes) in the Wyatt Courtyard, we will have a grill firing up burgers of all sorts, chips, cake, and likely anything else you'd expect to find at an awesome barbecue.
Come celebrate the end of the semester with some food and good company. Mingle with people in your classes, majors and minors you may have not yet met, and department faculty! Please direct any questions to jeschumacher@pugetsound.edu or come by the department on the first floor of Wyatt.
Adam Sowards '95, currently an associate professor of history at the University of Idaho, will be on campus on Monday, April 26 at 7:30 p.m. to deliver a presentation on former Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. This presentation will be based on his recently published book, The Environmental Justice: William O. Douglas and American Conservation. This presentation will be delivered in the Rotunda.
Professor Sowards will also give a second presentation, envisioned more as a seminar-style talk, at 3:30 p.m. the same day, titled "Claiming Spaces for Science and Nature: The Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-1918." This seminar will be delivered in Wyatt 301.
Coming up over these next few weeks, senior history majors will be presenting their research conducted in the capstone course. These European-focused theses deal with a wide variety of subjects and material, and all of them sound eminently interesting.
All thesis presentations will be held from 3:30 p.m. to 4:50 p.m. in Wyatt 109.
Tuesday April 13, 3:30-4:50 p.m. Panel I: Cultures of Imperialism in the British Empire Staci Elliott: The Nineteenth Century Opium Trade and British National Identity
Sarah Meister: Mistaken Snowflakes: Modern Feminism and Nationalism in Ireland, 1898-1937
Thursday April 15 3:30-4:50 p.m. Panel II: The Early Modern Military Revolution Reconsidered Michael Harbaugh: Spanish Military Evolution and the War of Granada, 1481-1492
Stephen Blocklin: Zweihander: Swiss Army Knife of Renaissance Warfare
Tuesday, April 20 3:30-4:50 p.m. Panel III: Political Discourses and Identities in Pre-Modern Europe Amy Woods: The Multiple Purposes behind the Use of Jews in the Writings of the Reformation
Sarah Hill: Braveheart's War: Robert the Bruce and the Scottish Succession Crisis
Thursday April 22 3:30-4:50 p.m. Panel IV: Missionaries and Cultural Frontiers Alex Coverdale: Legitimizing Empire: The Civilizing Mission of the East India Company
Annie Maggio: Understanding the Indian-Christian Convert: A Comparison of the Writings of Franciscans Toribio de Motolinía and Bernardino de Sahagún Concerning the Evangelization of New Spain, 1521-1600
Tuesday April 27 3:30-4:50 p.m. Panel V: Confronting Nazi Germany in Western Democracies Foster Hill: The Fight for Berlin: “Examining the Struggle over American Participation in the 1936 Olympic Games
Chris McCarthy: Morale Bombing: How Bombing was used as Propaganda by the British during World War II
Thursday April 29 3:30-4:50 p.m. Panel VI: Elite Politics in Twentieth-Century Dictatorships Amelia Kurashige-Elliott: Limitations of Soviet Foreign Policy during the Polish Crisis of 1980-1981: The Eclipse of the Brezhnev Doctrine and the End of the Old Regime
Niko Wacker: Friends with Enemies: Hitler's Rise to Power and How He did It
Tuesday May 4 3:30-4:50 p.m. Panel VII: Psychology and Literature in Nineteenth-Century Russia Emily Wiecki: Literary Madness and Psychiatry in 19th Century Russia
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