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Organized by Professor Lewis Siegelbaum and Ph.D. student Emily Elliott, the spring meeting of the Midwest Russian Historians Workshop will be held at MSU on March 27 and March 28. Pre-distributed papers by graduate students and faculty range from the collection and medicinal use of… Continue Reading Russian Historians Workshop at MSU 3/27-3/28

Professor Helen Veit’s Food in the Civil War Era: The North, the first book in the American Food in History series that she edits with Michigan State University press, won Gourmand International’s award for Best Series Cookbook published in the United States in 2014.

To commemorate Armistice Day, American Food Roots and the World War I Museum have released the first in a series of short videos on food in World War I, featuring Assistant Professor of history Helen Veit and two other historians, Dr. Julia Irwin and Dr.… Continue Reading Veit in documentary on WWI food

The new American Food in History book series, edited by Dr. Helen Zoe Veit, was featured in the Lansing State Journal on September 21. The article focused on the first volume in the series, Food in the Civil War Era: The North (May 2014).  An… Continue Reading Veit’s food series featured in LSJ

Peter M. Beattie will give a key note address to the ANPAD (Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Administração) Congress in Rio de Janeiro: “Gerenciando trabalhadores sentenciados: A fazenda da colônia penal de Fernando de Noronha e trabalho coercivo no Brasil imperial” [Managing Convict… Continue Reading Beattie keynote at ANPAD Congress