Obama in Japan
Read Constantine Vaporis' op-ed about Obama's trip to Japan, published on Aljazeera America on April 23, 2014...
April 23, 2014
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another prize for Kate Brown
On Saturday, April 12 in Atlanta, Associate Professor of History Kate Brown was awarded the 2014 Ellis W. Hawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians (OAH) for the best book-length...
April 17, 2014
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Kate Brown wins books prize
Kate Brown's book, Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters (Oxford University Press, 2013) has won the 2014 George Perkins Marsh Prize from...
March 18, 2014
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Civil War Memory and the Lost Cause
C-Span taped one of Dr. Rubin's lectures in her Civil War and Reconstruction class. The topic is Civil War Memory and the Lost Cause in Fall 2013. Watch it here ...
January 26, 2014
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How does one become an historian of Edo Japan?
A recent interview with Professor Vaporis delves into his own past to explain how he became a historian of Japan and discusses his new source book....
January 14, 2014
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Dean John Jeffries retired at the end of June after forty years of service to UMBC. In recognition of his profound impact on UMBC, we are delighted to announce the establishment of the John...
November 11, 2013
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Congratulate our current MA student Courtney Hobson on publishing a review of Sotterley Plantation's exhibit in The Public Historian....
November 11, 2013
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Starting in the spring semester, the History department will offer a Public History Minor at the Main campus as well as the Shady Grove campus. The requirements may be found on the website under...
October 11, 2013
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Prof. Kate Brown gave a talk about her book Plutopia at the Ivy Bookstore in Baltimore on Sept. 19, 2013 - C-Span's BookTV was there to film it! Watch it here...
September 29, 2013
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Dr. Rwany Ribaja has joined the department as one of UMBC's 2013-2015 Postdoctoral Fellows for Faculty Diversity. He completed his Doctoral Dissertation, “¡Animales! Civility, Disorder, and...
August 27, 2013
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