Lehigh University History Department

https://cas.lehigh.edu/articles/labour-partys-18-year-exile-beyond-shadow-margaret-thatcher

The Labour Party's 18-Year Exile: Beyond the Shadow of Margaret Thatcher | College of Arts and Sciences Lehigh University history student Jack Ciavolella evaluates England’s political divisions that fueled a long period of defeats.

This week, graduate students Ian Collins and Ben Goldman presented and commented at the "Never Always Again" conference at Clark University, with generous funding offered by Lehigh University Berman Center, clarku.edu/holocaust-and-genocide-studies/ and Lehigh University College of Arts and Sciences. In the photo, Ian is commenting on the Bosnian-American author Aleksander Hemon's presentation.

This photo is from a recent field trip and was taken in front of the original mine shaft inside the No. 9 Coal Mine in Lansford PA. The group include Prof Owain Lawon and students from HIST/EVST 108 Climate & Energy in Modern History: Drew Bigley, Laney Bort, Luis Felipe Dominguez, and Luke Reilly.

Prof Owain Lawson lectures about Empire, Oil, and the Gulf

Today, Timothy Betz successfully defended his dissertation: “Empire of Things: Imperial Collecting in the Spanish Empire”. Pictured here with his advisor, Maria Barbara Zepeda Cortes, and committee members, Bill Bulman and Kwame Essien.  external committee member Matthew Restall (Penn State)is not pictured.
Congratulations to Tim!

History Grads meet with three alumni working in the education field: Patrick Grubbs (23'), now associate dean at Northampton community college; Rachel Engel (19'), Chair of History and Social Sciences at Moravian Academy; Tim Betz (26'), teacher and curator at Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society.

Happy United States Constitution Day!
September 17

The History department's new Graduate cohort (with our one and only Ellen). Welcome!

Op-Ed Writing for Historians: How to Pitch, Write, Revise, and Get Your Ideas to the Public AHA Online | April 7, 2023 Op-Ed Writing for Historians: How to Pitch, Write, Revise, and Get Your Ideas to the PublicPanelists: Bryan Banks, Assistant Profe...