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History Graduate Student Participates in White House Historical Association Internship
From the March 2021 Desktop News | Thanks to a partnership between the White House Historical Association and UA’s Department of History, graduate student Jessica Brodt spent her summer as a virtual WHHA intern, where she contributed to the Association’s mission of preserving and sharing the history of the White House. The WHHA was established in 1961 by First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy to help fully understand and exhibit the extensive history of the White House. Today, it continues that mission, […]
A&S in the News: March 14-20, 2021
Read local, national, and world news that feature faculty, students, and alumni from the College of Arts & Sciences. Most recently, the College is trending in the news for the U.S. 43 project, toxic coal ash pollution, and more.
A&S in the News: February 28 – March 6, 2021
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A&S in the News: February 14-20, 2021
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Digital Slavery Archive Receives $750,000 Grant
From the January 2021 Desktop News | Dr. Joshua Rothman, professor and chair of the department of history, is part of a team of researchers that was recently awarded a $750,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant for a project, “Freedom on the Move,” which works to collect and digitize advertisements for runaway slaves that appeared in American newspapers before the Civil War. This is the second NEH grant for the project, which also received $300,000 in 2017. The most […]
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A&S in the News: January 17-23, 2021
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A&S in the News: January 10-16, 2021
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Leaving a Legacy
From the 2020 Collegian | Those who knew long-time history professor Dr. Helen Delpar describe her as a character. Voted “Most Likely to Succeed” by her high school classmates, she never owned a car and instead walked to work nearly every day until she retired in her late 60s. Though she never married and enjoyed solitude, she loved the company of others and had a deep-seated drive to focus her intellect and abilities into not only improving herself, but also […]
A History of Us
From the 2020 Collegian | On a January morning, 18 Central High School students sat around a circle of tables in their first period class. It’s silent, but it’s not tense—there’s an air of thoughtfulness, of students searching to find their answer to the question posed moments before. One by one, the students begin to raise their hands, looking at the professor leading the class. The question? “How does mass incarceration affect you personally?” Dr. John Giggie, a history professor […]