News and
announcements
Dr. Dan Glenn, Dr. Rachel Goossen, Dr. Alan Bearman, Dr.
Tom Prasch, Dr. Bruce Mactavish
Dr. Kim Morse, Anne Fund, Dr. Kerry Wynn, Dr. Yongtao Du
Fall 2008
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The
History Department faculty and staff welcome Dr. Anthony Silvestri in a
lectureship position commencing in the fall semester of 2008.
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Please send
questions and comments to Dr.
Kerry Wynn .
Washburn University
Department of History
1700 SW College Ave.
Topeka, KS 66621
Telephone: (785)670-2060
Fax: (785)670-1084
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Calendar
This coming fall the History Department will offer an unprecedented FIVE
new upper division courses, ranging from Darwin to the American child:
HI 300A A History of American Childhood, 1:30-2:45 MW
Rachel Goossen, Instructor. This new class will explore the historical
literature on children and youth in American culture, and evolving notions
of childhood from America's colonial period to the present.
HI 300B, Medieval Europe, 12:00-1:15 MW, Tony Silvestri,
Instructor. Students will explore the development of European civilization
from the fall of the Roman Empire to the dawn of the Renaissance. Students
will also work in a medieval scriptorium, using authentic historic
materials to create their own illuminated work.
HI 300C, War and Society, 11:00-12:15 TR, Dan Glenn,
Instructor. How has armed conflict shaped the modern world? How have
propaganda and popular history reconstructed our memories of warfare? Learn
the answers to these questions from Clausewitz to Taxi Driver and
Napoleon to Iraqi Freedom.
HI 300X, Women and Gender in Early America, 5:30-8::30 W,
Kerry Wynn, Instructor. How were men and women expected to
act in the 18th century? More importantly, how did they actually
behave? Explore the myth and reality of gender relations in this class.
HI 300F, Darwin's Texts/Contexts, 4:00-5:15 MW, Tom Prasch
and Marguerite Perret, Instructors. The year 2009 is the 150th anniversary
of the publication of Charles Darwin's Origin of the Species and
there is no better place to commemorate Darwin's breakthrough work on
natural selection than in Kansas, where it has provoked so much recent
controversy in the public schools. The course will study the works of
Darwin, debate about his theory among his own contemporaries and ours, and
the influence of his theory on science, literature and the arts.
These courses have never been offered here before, so don't miss an
opportunity.
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Lecture Series
The Gleed Memorial Lecture, endowed in 1928 by
friends of J. Willis Gleed, a Topeka corporate attorney and university
trustee whose devotion to education was highly regarded, brings to campus
notable authorities for a public lecture.
The Harman Memorial Lincoln Lecture promotes the
study of Abraham Lincoln's life and times by a lectureship endowed in 1987
by Jerome Harman, distinguished Kansas jurist and lifelong student of the
nation's 16th president.
The Far Travelers Oral History Website is
now up and available. Go to: http://www.washburn.edu/cas/history/stucker/fartravelers/
to get a look at what they have done.
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