Meredith Roman who received her Ph.D. from our department in 2005, has just published Opposing Jim Crow: African Americans and the Soviet Indictment of U.S. Racism, 1928-1937 with the University of Nebraska Press. Meredith was part of what she refers to in her preface as the “vibrant Comparative Black History program,” and was supervised by [...]

Samuel J. Thomas, “Revenge of the “Clodhoppers”: Portraits of a Political Insurgency”: [A Review Essay on] Worth Robert Miller. Populist Cartoons: An Illustrated History of the Third Party Movement in the 1890s. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2011. 208 pp. [in] Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Vol. 11, July 2012, pp. [...]

Lisa M. Fine just published in the August 2012 issue of Labor History “Workers and the land in US history: Pointe Mouillée and the downriver Detroit working class in the twentieth century.” This article is part of a special issue of Labor History entitled “Working Space: An Interdisciplinary Conversation about Geographical Consciousness in Labor and [...]

Doctoral candidate Amanda Lewis, under the supervision of Dr. Georgina Montgomery, will research the historical relationship between stakeholders involved in wildlife conservation in protected areas of Africa. She will conduct research in Amboseli National Park in Kenya. Building on the scientific literature regarding conservation science in Amboseli, this research will add a new dimension of [...]