A Halloween Special: Mount Hope Cemetery Prof. Nicole Phelps Click to enlarge all images Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, New York, can be a spooky place. Many of the stones are weathered and discolored, and some of the trees have become so massive that their root systems are infiltrating the burial plots. The cemetery has […]
Archive for October, 2014
Happy Halloween from the History Department!
Posted in Faculty Research on October 30, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
Featured Archival Find: Professor Erik Esselstrom
Posted in Faculty Research, Featured Archival Find on October 23, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
One of our regular features on this blog will be documents, photos and artifacts that our faculty have found and/or are using in their research. This week’s entry comes from Associate Professor Erik Esselstrom, who is a specialist in modern East Asian history. Professor Esselstrom is currently at work on a cultural history of popular […]
Faculty Research in Review
Posted in Faculty Research on October 20, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
The research of many history faculty has broad-reaching impact both in the United States and abroad. Professor Nicole Phelps’s recent book U.S.-Habsburg Relations from 1815 to the Paris Peace Conference is the subject of a featured roundtable on the listserve H-Diplo while Frank Zelko’s recent book, Make it a Green Peace: The Rise of Countercultural […]
Tues @ Noon: Talk on the Civil War
Posted in Faculty Research, Upcoming Lectures on October 17, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
“Witness and Response: Art, Artifacts, and the Meaning of the Civil War” TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21 12:00PM Fleming Museum With Andrew Buchanan, Senior Lecturer, UVM Department of History, and Kassandra LaPrade Seuthe, Graduate Student, UVM Department of History. The Civil War is often called the most transformative period in U.S. history, with many aspects of American […]
Hiking Historians
Posted in Uncategorized on October 17, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
UVM History professor Andy Buchanan and his wife, Mary-Nell Bockman, celebrate on the summit of Gothics (4,734′) in the Adirondack Mountains of New York, after completing their quest to climb all forty six of the 4,000′ peaks in the region. Professor Buchanan explains that they began climbing in the Adirondacks sixteen years ago–before living in […]
Featured Archival Find: Professor Abby McGowan
Posted in Faculty Research, Featured Archival Find on October 15, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
One of our regular features on this blog will be documents, photos and artifacts that our faculty have found and/or are using in their research. This entry comes from Associate Professor Abby McGowan. Professor McGowan specializes in modern South Asian history. Her current research project examines changing ideas of home in mid-twentieth century India, as […]
Earning Potential of History Majors
Posted in from the chair, Links on October 15, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
We’re always being asked about the value of the humanities and what one can do with a history major. While I’ll be tackling these issues more fully in later posts, I’d like to pass along a recent article about how history majors do once they leave the university. The research, writing, and critical thinking skills […]
Join us Monday, Oct 13
Posted in Upcoming Lectures on October 10, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
Monday, October 13th, 4 pm, Billings North Lounge Dan and Carole Burack President’s Lecture Series “Art on the Line: Cartography & Creativity in a Divided World” Sumathi Ramaswamy, Duke University In recent years, historians of cartography have shown us how and why lines, dashes, and contours drawn on a piece of paper (or sometimes, […]
Alumni News and What History Majors Do
Posted in Alumni News on October 9, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
One of our goals in creating a UVM History Blog was to better communicate with students and alumni of our fine department. A few weeks ago, I posted a request for information from our alumni. While I’m still hoping for more stories (if you are reading this and would like to share a story with […]
History Department Sponsors more Lectures
Posted in Upcoming Lectures on October 9, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
Dear Readers, The history department at the University of Vermont if fully committed to furthering intellectual life on campus. To this end, we regularly host lectures that appeal to the university and the broader Burlington community. History faculty took the lead in inviting and helping to host two upcoming lectures, which are part of the […]
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