Professor Sean Forner published  ’Deutscher Geist’ und demokratische Erneuerung: Kulturbünde in Ost und West nach 1945.” In Rückblickend in die Zukunft: Politische Öffentlichkeit und intellektuelle Positionen in Deutschland um 1950 und um 1930, ed. Alexander Gallus and Axel Schildt. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2011. Translates as: ‘German Spirit’ and Democratic Renewal: Cultural Leagues in East and West [...]

Five members of the faculty participated in the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, held at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, June 9-12, 2011.  Also known as the “Big Berks,” the academic gathering (held once every three years) is the largest, most prestigious women’s history conference in the world.  MSU historians who presented [...]

Graduate students from history, anthropology, and WRAC have launched http://www.gradhacker.org, a website offering advice on productivity, teaching, technology, and wellness. Profhacker has written a post about the launch of the website here: http://ow.ly/57AT6. The department’s very own Micalee Sullivan and Alex Galarza helped build the site and launch the opening posts. Micalee has written two [...]