LSUS History and Social Sciences Department

Tomorrow morning at 7:10 a.m., Dr. Cheryl White will be live on KEEL Radio to discuss the recent finding of a cache of letters from 1918 Shreveport - from a mother and father to their son on the front in World War I. (thanks to Sister Sharon Rambin for donating them!)
Fascinating insights - a poignant step back in time you won’t want to miss! Tune in.

Tomorrow morning at 7:10 a.m., Dr. Cheryl White will be live on KEEL Radio to discuss the recent finding of a cache of letters from 1918 Shreveport - from a mother and father to their son on the front in World War I. (thanks to Sister Sharon Rambin for donating them!)
Fascinating insights - a poignant step back in time you won’t want to miss! Tune in.

Dr. Cheryl H. White has been the primary researcher on this project, culminating in a feature-length documentary and book about five Shreveport priests of the 1873 Yellow Fever Epidemic. As a result of this work with co-authors Fr. Peter Mangum and W. Ryan Smith, all five are now in the Vatican’s canonization process.

Exciting news on the forthcoming book!

The Surest Path to Heaven: The Shreveport Martyrs of 1873, authored by Fr. Peter Mangum, W. Ryan Smith, and Dr. Cheryl White, has been contracted for publication by The History Press of Charleston, South Carolina.
The book contains a Foreword from Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, and chronicles the remarkable and heroic lives of our Servants of God: Fr. Isidore Quemerais, Fr. Jean Pierre, Fr. Jean Marie Biler, Fr. Louis Gergaud, and Fr. Francois Le Vezouet.
The expected release date is late October 2021 !

(Image: Memorial stained glass windows, Holy Trinity Church, Shreveport)

Departmental News Update: Spring Semester 2021
Dr. Alexander Mikaberidze was voted Professor of the Year for the College of Arts and Sciences! This award is a long-standing and honored tradition here at LSUS, based on nominations by the student body and confirmation by the Student Government Association.

AND – A university-wide panel has granted Outstanding Faculty Awards to TWO of our LSUS History faculty! In a process based upon nominations by other faculty – Dr. Alexander Mikaberidze received the award for his contributions in the area of Research, and Dr. Cheryl White for her contributions in the area of Service.

Finally, three of our faculty have been selected to participate in a state-wide Open Textbooks Pilot Program as part of a $2 million grant funded by the Department of Education. This innovative program will make textbooks freely accessible to all students without restriction. Joining select faculty from other public and private academic institutions across Louisiana are Dr. Helen Wise (Sociology), and Dr. Alexander Mikaberidze and Dr. Cheryl White (History). The goal of this initiative is to significantly reduce costs and improve learning outcomes for approximately 250,000 student enrollments statewide per academic year.

Departmental News Update: Spring Semester 2021
Dr. Alexander Mikaberidze was voted Professor of the Year for the College of Arts and Sciences! This award is a long-standing and honored tradition here at LSUS, based on nominations by the student body and confirmation by the Student Government Association.

AND – A university-wide panel has granted Outstanding Faculty Awards to TWO of our LSUS History faculty! In a process based upon nominations by other faculty – Dr. Alexander Mikaberidze received the award for his contributions in the area of Research, and Dr. Cheryl White for her contributions in the area of Service.

Finally, three of our faculty have been selected to participate in a state-wide Open Textbooks Pilot Program as part of a $2 million grant funded by the Department of Education. This innovative program will make textbooks freely accessible to all students without restriction. Joining select faculty from other public and private academic institutions across Louisiana are Dr. Helen Wise (Sociology), and Dr. Alexander Mikaberidze and Dr. Cheryl White (History). The goal of this initiative is to significantly reduce costs and improve learning outcomes for approximately 250,000 student enrollments statewide per academic year.

Save the date!

Save the date!

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Open now for registration, special course offering for Fall Semester.
Cheryl H. White Alexander Mikaberidze

Open now for registration, special course offering for Fall Semester.
Cheryl H. White Alexander Mikaberidze

Revisiting the Civil War: A Cause Worth Losing?

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/revisiting-the-civil-war-a-cause-worth-losing-tickets-147858273075

Revisiting the Civil War: A Cause Worth Losing? Join us March 30, from 6-7:30pm, as LSUS student and Navy veteran Chad Beall discusses the controversy surrounding Confederate statues.

Orange Irish: Why some prefer orange to green on St. Patrick's Day

Historian Dr. Cheryl White weighed in with KTBS on this interesting story about St. Patrick's Day.

Orange Irish: Why some prefer orange to green on St. Patrick's Day SHREVEPORT, La -- March 17 marks Saint Patrick’s Day, and the tradition is familiar to all as the color green rules the day.

Napoleon and His Legacy: Warfare, Politics, and Society, March 18-21, 2021

Save the date late this month - On March 18-21, Prof. Alexander Mikaberidze will be hosting a conference on the Age of Napoleon, featuring a diverse group of presenters and keynote talks by Jeremy Black (University of Exeter), Michael Broers (University of Oxford) and Charles Esdaile (University of Liverpool). The conference will take place virtually, on the Zoom platform. Once participants register, they will receive a copy of the program with Zoom links so they can access individual panels. You can register here 👇
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/napoleon-and-his-legacy-warfare-politics-and-society-march-18-21-2021-tickets-142425537617

Napoleon and His Legacy: Warfare, Politics, and Society, March 18-21, 2021 Symposium on the Age of Napoleon in commemoration of the bicentennial of Napoleon's death.

Timeline Photos

Join the LSUS Professor Dr. Reibsome and Air Force Veteran Jason Tipler for a discussion on the realities of war violence and nostalgic propaganda.

A sneak peak at Fall 2021! A very special course offering.
Alexander Mikaberidze Cheryl H. White

LSU Shreveport

Due to weather, the LSUS campus will remain closed on Wed. Feb. 17th, Thurs., Feb. 18th, and Fri., Feb. 19th.
All face-to-face classes scheduled from the 17th-19th will be taught remotely. Students should check Moodle or contact their instructors immediately for further information. 100% Online classes will continue as scheduled.
The university will make an announcement on Friday, February 19th about the reopening of campus during the week of February 22nd.

Two Days in September

For Black History Month, a special virtual exhibit is now up at the Spring Street Museum:
Two Days in September recounts events of 1963 here in Shreveport, as the community reacted to news of the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. The story is told in a series of compelling archival photographs, and concludes with a powerful oral history given by late civil rights activist Rev. Harry Blake. The latter is on file with the Library of Congress.

docs.google.com

An initiative by the museum to help identify individuals in a very significant historical photo! Can you share and help?

https://nlcrc.org/whos-who-in-this-historic-civil-rights-photograph/
UPDATE: The North Louisiana Civil Rights Coalition website is experiencing technical difficulties at this time...please submit ID's to [email protected]
Please help identify the individuals in this historic photo.
Photo description: Civil Rights meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the original Galilee Baptist Church in Shreveport, LA in mid-August of 1958.
So far, only 7 of 52 have been identified.
Please share with as many friends as possible until every person in the photograph has been identified.
Please use the link provided to enlarge the photograph and submit identities to the Civil Rights Coalition of Shreveport Louisiana.
A few useful sources to help with your search:
Church directories
School yearbooks
Family photos
Newspaper clippings

[01/23/21]   Dr. Cheryl White has co-authored a book (with Fr. Peter Mangum and historian W. Ryan Smith) on the lives of the five priests who died in the 1873 Yellow Fever epidemic in Shreveport, and the resulting research process led to the Vatican opening a formal canonization cause for them. There is now a new full-length documentary forthcoming on their remarkable lives, also highlighting the history and culture of Shreveport and northern Louisiana. Many thanks to the LSUS Foundation for their generosity in making this possible.

Outside our beautiful Liberal Arts building, Bronson Hall.

Life in AC: After COVID-19

Check out a recent piece by Professor Emeritus, Norm Dolch, Dr. Helen Wise and our colleagues from Seton Hall and University of Notre Dame for the Biden Achool of Public Policy & Administration at the University of Delaware. The Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Delaware prepares students with the knowledge and skills necessary to engage in research and public service activities to improve the quality of life in communities around the world. Their goal is to create and use interdisciplinary, nonpartisan research and empirically-based analysis to inform effective decision-making and policy and to improve leadership and administration.

bidenschool.udel.edu Life in AC: After COVID-19

LSUS Christmas Quarantine Chat: Spring Street Museum

Worth the watch!
What happens when these professors get together ?
We thought we should do one more special "Quarantine Chat" to close out this year of 2020.
But it actually turned out to be just another usual day at the office with these three ... so much fun. #QuarantineChat
Alexander Mikaberidze Cheryl H. White @Helen Kennedy Wise

https://youtu.be/lCyvLHRcrB4

youtube.com A Special “Quarantine Chat” from the Spring Street MuseumDr. Alexander Mikaberidze Dr. Cheryl WhiteDr. Helen Wise

The Best of Books 2020

Dr. Alexander Mikaberidze’s book, The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History, has been selected as one of “the best of books” for 2020 by the publication, Foreign Affairs.

foreignaffairs.com Foreign Affairs — The leading magazine for analysis and debate of foreign policy, economics and global affairs.

Dr. Helen Kennedy Wise has been recognized as a Circle of Excellence awardee from the LSUS Alumni Foundation !

Five Louisiana priests who died in 1873 pandemic considered for sainthood

Dr. Cheryl White, professor of history, has been one of the primary researchers in a project to submit formal historical portfolios to the Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints. There is currently a canonization cause pending for five priests who died in Shreveport during the 1873 Yellow Fever epidemic.

cruxnow.com Five priests who died during the 1873 yellow fever pandemic in Shreveport are being considered for sainthood.

The Napoleonic Wars: A Global Conflict

Dr. Alexander Mikaberidze is delivering a day long seminar on the Napoleonjc Wars at the Smithsonian Institute.

https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/napoleonic-wars-global-conflict

smithsonianassociates.org Austerlitz, Borodino, and Waterloo are among the places most closely associated with the era of the Napoleonic Wars. But this period of nearly continuous Franco-British conflict affected nations far beyond Europe. Historian Alexander Mikaberidze analyzes the immediate and extended consequences of th...

Unexpected Modernism: The Architecture of the Wiener Brothers

Dr. Cheryl H. White is on the discussion panel this evening following this virtual premiere of an important historical film. Tickets available at the site below.

http://unexpectedmodernism.com/?fbclid=IwAR1GPgzNmt7XorBD92akHiwrhzPGvm9bvarxJjxT2XwmyUhRKZslmlIkMDc

unexpectedmodernism.com Following a 1931 voyage to the Bauhaus, Samuel G. Wiener and William B. Wiener became the most prolific modern architects in the American South.

Some of us came prepared for the campus faculty costume contest...some came prepared for battle...some came ready for both 🙂
Alexander Mikaberidze

Just announced from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities:
Dr. Cheryl H. White, Professor of History, is to be the consulting scholar for an LEH Rebirth Grant for the Bossier Parish Libraries History Center, which is
planning a virtual programming series to take patrons on a tour of historic locations around Bossier Parish.
For this project, the History Center staff will travel around the parish to film videos that reflect on Bossier's unique history. They will supplement the onsite videos by incorporating photographs and materials from the History Center's extensive archival collection. This project will uniquely allow a community look into the center’s collection and bring some forgotten or overlooked history to light.

Spring Street Museum

Our exhibit “Misery & Heroism: Yellow Fever Epidemic in Shreveport 1873” is live on our website at http://www.springstreetmuseum.org/exhibits !

LSU-S emerges as fastest growing higher education institution in state - BIZ - Northwest Louisiana

bizmagsb.com Shreveport, LA – Louisiana State University in Shreveport is now the fastest growing higher education institution in Louisiana in the last five years. The university boasts the largest freshman class in five years and the largest number of retained students in five years. Despite the COVID- ...

BBC World Service - The Forum, Queen Tamar: The myth of a perfect ruler

Dr Alexander Mikaberidze was interviewed by BBC World Service for its broadcast on the life and times of Tamar the Great, Georgia’s celebrated female monarch.

bbc.co.uk Georgia’s most iconic female sovereign

Join Dr. Helen Wise, Professor of Sociology, Dr. Norman Dolch, Professor Emeritus, and fellow authors on Friday, September 25th, 1:00 pm CST for the ISTR (International Society of Third Sector Research) Book Club presentation of their new book, Nonprofit Crisis Management: Response to Covid-19 (Sagamore Press, 2020).
Click here to register: https://www.istr.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1418376&group=