Month: March 2014

Dr. Matthew Pauly has a lot of experience with Ukraine, having served there as a state department officer and who continues active research in the region. He just published an op-ed about it in the Toronto Star: http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2014/02/28/dont_expect_ukraine_to_end_up_divided.html

Recent events in Ukraine and the Crimean peninsula prompted several North American news organizations (USA Today; National Public Radio; Slate.com; ipolitics.ca) to quote from Seventeen Moments (www.soviethistory.macalester.edu), the award-winning website that Lewis Siegelbaum co-authored and co-manages with James von Geldern of Macalester College. The news… Continue Reading “The Gift of Crimea”

Two events are lined up so far for the History Spring Speaker Series: Robert Vinson will give a talk titled “From The Wilmington Massacre to the Zulu Promised Land: Rev. Charles Morris & Black Liberation in The United States and South Africa, c. 1900” on… Continue Reading Spring Speaker Series