Journeys into the Past

This spring, students in HST 410/510: International Organizations After World War II, researched areas of United Nations history that interested them. Along with a prospectus […]

Ilya Repin, They Did Not Expect Him.  1884-88.  Wikimedia Commons. Students in the Fall 2017 class, A History of the Russian Empire, wrote creative papers that […]

Eugène Hénard, ‘The Cities of The Future’, published in American City, January 1911. By Jacob Bruggeman The human era—the Anthropocene—continues to alter the Earth through […]

The second issue of Journeys into the Past builds on the first, which featured writing from students in a course on Russia in war and revolution.  The […]

John Singelton Copley, Portrait of Mrs. John Stevens, 1770-72. By Jacob Bruggeman Devotees to the study of history are quickly becoming a bygone breed. In […]

The first issue of Journeys into the Past features eleven essays, four historical journeys, and one opinion piece (in a section entitled “Past and Present”).  We will […]