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Liberal Arts Advantage Career Fair

This is an opportunity for students to engage in conversations, learn about career paths, develop professionally, and network with alumni and other students. Today, as much as ever, liberal arts […]

Slavery in the Texas Borderlands

This is the Second Annual JoBeth Van Gelderen Graduate Student Lecture. To most Americans, the word “slavery” conjures up images of plantations in the Old South. But in the Texas […]

Geographies of the Holocaust

Anne Knowles and Alberto Giordano will present Geographies of the Holocaust. This book is the result of a multi-year collective project that has explored the geographies of the Holocaust at […]

Energy and Middle East History

From the Bronze Age to the era of petroleum, the Middle East has experienced asuccession of energy profi les that helps to explain its political and cultural effl orescences and […]

“Death Ride of the Wehrmacht:” Russia 1941

Sunday, 22 June 1941, was arguably the most significant day of the 20th century. For on that day Adolf Hitler’s armies stormed into the Soviet Union, launching a surprise attack […]