OSU Newark History Department

10/15/2016

"Juan Pujol García, called “the greatest double agent of the Second World War” by former MI5 official historian Christopher Andrew, helped to perpetrate the elaborate ruse that ensured D-Day’s success. Newly declassified files released yesterday by Great Britain’s National Archives have revealed that the top-secret mission of “Agent Garbo” might have been sabotaged by his wife, who played an integral part in establishing his espionage network and would later threaten to blow his cover by exposing Britain’s entire double-agent program."

Newly declassified files have revealed how one of Britain’s greatest double agent’s marital troubles threatened his cover and could have altered the course of World War II.

10/15/2016

"William the Conqueror’s victory at the Battle of Hastings on October 14, 1066, marked the demise of the Anglo-Saxons and led to his installation as the first Norman king. Find out how one of history's most famous battles altered the course of England—and the world—and forever changed the way that English was spoken."

Find out how the Battle of Hastings forever changed England—and the English language.

10/03/2016

"This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of China’s Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), a decade-long period of political turmoil that included attacks on alleged class enemies, the toppling of Party officials high and low, and the reinstatement of political control via revolutionary committees supported by the military. The Cultural Revolution was simultaneously a political and a cultural movement, aiming not only at political upheaval but also the transformation of social and cultural life through Mao Zedong Thought."

10/03/2016

"When President Hoover and his wife, Lou, arrived in the White House, they set a regal tone, presiding over elaborate multicourse banquets and requiring dinner jackets even en famille.
The Depression brought all that to an end. And as Jane Ziegelman and Andrew Coe show in their engaging and often moving cultural history, “A Square Meal,” those years also changed the way America thought about food. We are what we eat — or in the case of the Depression, didn’t."

“A Square Meal,” by Jane Ziegelman and Andrew Coe, is an engaging, moving history of how the Depression changed the way Americans thought about food.

09/19/2016

"Hillary Clinton will be the first woman nominated by a major political party to run for president of the United States, but she is certainly not the first woman to seek the office. This month historian Kimberly Hamlin profiles women who have tried to win the Presidency—an office that thus far has been a club for men only."

09/19/2016

"In this book beards provide a window for examining the ways in which cultures have defined and controlled images of masculinity."

Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective; In each issue of Origins, an academic expert will analyze a particular current issue – political, cultural, or social – in a larger, deeper context. In addition to the analysis provided by each month’s feature, Origins will also include images, maps...

09/02/2016

"In 2015, a record-breaking 305 million visitors used the Parks as an outlet from the turbulent flow of everyday life and a place to rediscover what is essential in the American experience"

Heather Fryer is the Fr. Henry W. Casper, SJ Professor of history at Creighton University in Omaha, Neb., where she is associate professor and director of the American Studies Program.

09/02/2016

"On this episode of History Talk, guests Johanna Sellman, Gulsah Toronoglu, and Sabra Webber discuss the diverse and dynamic history of women in the Middle East and North Africa. Highlighting the region's great range of historical experiences, they question the idea that women's rights marks a divide between Islamic societies and the "West," explore the history of women's movements, and address the ways in which the flourishing of new media is transforming political and artistic expression throughout the Islamic world."

Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective; In each issue of Origins, an academic expert will analyze a particular current issue – political, cultural, or social – in a larger, deeper context. In addition to the analysis provided by each month’s feature, Origins will also include images, maps...

08/23/2016

Welcome to the 16-17 School year! As we look to new horizons in our lives, let's take a moment to look back to the end of a past era in American History.

Richard A. Serrano is the author of American Endurance; Buffalo Bill, the Great Cowboy Race of 1893, and the Vanishing Wild West (Smithsonian Books).

03/21/2015

Read Dr. Tiyi Morris's latest post in the African-American and African Studies Community Extension Center blog.

“All My Life I Had to Fight…”: Black Women’s Ongoing Struggle for Inclusion in Civil Rights Narratives March 3 2015March 3, 2015 By: Tiyi M. Morris, PhD Like many of us, I welcome diverse representations of Blacks in the media, in general, particularly on the silver screen. So as much as I enjoyed t…

03/16/2015

View Dickinson College's online resource center created for the Carlisle Indian School.

The Carlisle Indian Industrial School is a major site of memory for many Native peoples, as well as a source of study for students and scholars around the globe. This website represents an effort to aid the research process by bringing together, in digital format, a variety of resources that are phy…

02/06/2015

The Newark Earthwork Center is hosting a lecture series throughout February. See the attached flyer for dates and times of the lectures.