Applications for Non-State Archive grants are open - 9 March 2025 deadline. Last cycle we funded collections ranging from African migration to Italy, to White supremacist movements in the US, and beyond.
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Next Wednesday, I will be speaking at the "Reconciling Marketization: Understanding the New Political Economy of Higher Education" symposium, on the theme "The reshaping of higher education by digital technologies." Please register below @chet-bristol.bsky.social
In the 1850s, there were around 20 millionaires in the U.S. But with industrialization, monopolies, virtually no regulation, widespread corruption, by the end of the 1890s total millionaires in the US were over 4,000.
I encourage everyone to watch the movie “The Railway Men” on Netflix. It is a dramatization of the events of the day that Union Carbide released methyl isocyanate into the city of Bhopal India. 4000 killed and half a million exposed.
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It's Reading Day at Ohio State!
Did you know that Dec. 12 is an official US holiday? In 2002 Congress established #PoinsettiaDay to honor Paul Ecke, Jr. who helped commercialize the plant. But the plant has ties to Joel #Poinsett and the history of U.S.-Mexico relations. Find out more in the new Origins video youtu.be/V9E6UUxDRNE
Military History Professor (& retired Col.) Peter Mansoor was a guest on World is One News - India (WION) on Dec. 2nd discussing the latest violence in Lebanon and Syria. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-Ff...
Dierdra Reber (U. of Kentucky) will present "Who ‘We’ Are and How ‘We’ Feel: Tracing Race, Emotion, & Belonging in Western Self-Fashioning from 15th-Century Europe to the 21st-Century Americas" at our next CHR event on 1/27, 4 pm. Registration & more on our website. history.osu.edu/events/chr-r...
Did you know that today is the 40th anniversary of the world's worst industrial disasters? Dec. 2-3, 1984 the #Bhopal Gas Disaster occurred. Dr. Nick Breyfogle recently spoke with Dr. Madhumita Dutta about the disaster & the ongoing health repercussions for the people of Bhopal
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Kristin Osborne and Paul McAllister stand behind table with monitor displaying the Origins website and signage with QR codes to sign up for a mailing list. The table also displays postcards and stickers.
A computer monitor displaying the Origins website on a table with postcards, stickers and a sign with a QR code for joining our email list.
Teacher and Origins staffer Kristin Osborne and graduate student Paul McAllister recently represented Picturing Black History and Origins at the National Council on Social Studies Conference. They shared info about our website content, lesson plans, and our new Origins Edpuzzles.
History alum Whitney Dirks (Ph.D. 2013) has written a new book, "Monstrosity, Bodies, and Knowledge in Early Modern England, Curiosity to See and Behold," published by Amsterdam University Press. Find out more at: www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
Many thanks to Gramercy Books Bexley for sharing this video of Minority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives Hakeem Jeffries and history professor Hasan Jeffries in conversation.
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"What was Wrong with the Judges at the Salem Witch Trials?" Prof. Matt Goldish turned the spotlight on the rarely discussed judges in a recent Clio Society talk.
Left to right: Dean David Horn, Minority Leader Jeffries, Linda Kass, Professor Hasan Jeffries, History Chair Scott Levi
On left, Hakeem Jeffries, on right, Hasan Kwame Jeffries
Yesterday we had the privilege of co-hosting (with Gramercy Books) a conversation between Minor Leader of the House Hakeem Jeffries and Professor Hasan Jeffries at the Ohio Union. It was a full house as Jeffries spoke about his children's book, "The ABCs of Democracy," and his life in politics.
There is no greater insult today in American #politics than to call someone an "elite." No one has hurled that insult more than Donald Trump. Americans have long been suspicious of “elites” but, as historian Steven Conn describes, just who they are has changed a lot over the last 200 years.
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My upcoming lecture at Cambridge Uni, Nov. 28. Look forward to seeing colleagues and friends and having a great conversation!
I wrote an essay on decolonization talk for Aeon Magazine, sparked in part by the seemingly odd image search results for 'decolonization' when making posters for Ohio State's International History Seminar last year. @mershoncenter.bsky.social @osuhistory.bsky.social
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Ohio State News is featuring our Picturing Black history project in a new article. Check it out!
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Discover the intriguing history of Baku, the host city for this year's #COP29: U.N. Convention on Climate Change shared by Chair & History Professor Scott Levi.
➡️ Read more: bit.ly/3B2169W
A view of #Kinshasa in the mid-20th century, when it was still known as #Leopoldville. Located along the banks of the Congo River, the city was founded by Welsh-American explorer Stanley on land granted to the International #Congo Association of King Leopold II by King Makoko of the Anziku Kingdom.
Since this is the centennial of the 1924 Snyder Act, also known as the Indian Citizenship Act, let’s dig deeper into the idea of Native American citizenship for Native American Heritage Month.
Tomorrow (11/22) at 9:00 a.m. EST via Zoom, Dr. Madhura Damle, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Presidency University, Kolkata, India, will present “Hairdressing a Vernacular: Women, Grammar, and Discipline in Colonial Western India.” More info on our website history.osu.edu/events/madhu...
It's coming up in just a few days. Don't miss out!
Breakfast meeting with Matthias Berninger Chief Sustainability Officer at Bayer and Ambassador Earthrin Cousin, board member of Bayer.
O-H-I-O with local Azerbaijani students at the UNESCO petroglyphs.
Ohio State history profs. Bart Elmore, Nick Breyfogle & students at COP29. O-H-I-O with local Azerbaijani students at UNESCO petroglyphs and breakfast meeting with Matthias Berninger CSO at Bayer and Ambassador Earthrin Cousin, board member of Bayer. #COP29 #ClimateChange #OhioStateUniversity
fire at a gas plant
Join us Nov. 25th at Noon EST for "Remembering Bhopal: The World's Worst Industrial Disaster," with Madhumita Dutta, Assoc. Prof. of Geography at Ohio State. Info & registration at history.osu.edu/events/dutta...
Frank Blazich receiving the medal from French General Francois Lecointre. Other soldiers stand around him.
The award certificate and the medal.
Congrats to alum Frank Blazich, decorated last week by French General Francois Lecointre w/ the Médaille de la Défense nationale at DC Nat'l WWI Memorial for stewarding the museum's partnership with the French Embassy in the U.S. for its 80th anniv commemorations of D-Day & the Liberation of Paris.