Prof. Karen Sotiropoulos Spring 2023, Tues/Thurs 2-3:15 PM A new course opportunity has come up for all history majors. HIS 325/525 is a course that places the contemporary politics of Black America in the context of 20th century Civil Rights struggles. It will help you think historically about modern events and movements, like the 2020 attempted uprising and the Black […]
New Course Opportunity: HIS 325/525 Black America Since 1945
Faculty Feature: Oral History & Vietnamese Refugees
Editor’s Note: This guest post is by Dr. Stephanie Hinnershitz who spent the 2017-2018 academic year on fellowship at West Point where she taught courses in American history, worked on online educational resources, and conducted oral history interviews with Vietnamese refugees. But out of deference for our hosts we kept our feelings to ourselves, sitting close to one another on […]
Engaging History: Japanese Internment & “Infamy”
Editor’s Note: This guest post is by Dr. Stephanie Hinnershitz who is currently writing a monograph, Wages of War: Japanese American Incarceration and Prison Labor during World War II, on Japanese Internment. In August of 2019, Alexander Woo—co-creator of the second season of AMC’s horror anthology “The Terror”—sat down with interviewers from Vanity Fair to discuss the inspiration for the […]
