Journeys into the Past

Note:  Students in Stephen Norris’s HST/FST 252, History at the Movies, are grading historical films and offering reviews on how assigned films render the past.  […]

Working with Dr. Wietse de Boer as an Undergraduate Summer Scholar, Miami senior Caroline Godard investigated the world of political images in the European Renaissance.  […]

Sholem Aleichem’s popular stories of Tevye the Dairyman made the author famous within and putside the Russian Empire.  Published between 1895 and 1916, the stories […]

Mikhail Lermontov, Tiflis.  1837.  Wikimedia Commons. By Paige Ross Understanding Russian Imperialism: Conceptions of Empire in Mikhail Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Time Mikhail Lermontov’s […]

Mikhail Lermontov, The Georgian Military Highway, 1837.  Wikimedia Commons.   Mikhail Lermontov’s short novel remains a classic account of the nature of the Russian Empire […]

The official pamphlet of the American Exhibition in Moscow. By Matthew Kline The Cold War was a strategic and ideological battle between the superpowers of […]

Construction Workers with Cement Mixer on High Street, Oxford, OH, 1916. By Sophia Szeles   Most of America transformed greatly during the Gilded Age due […]

By Kaylie Schunk What is the cost of adventure? Many sojourned west for opportunity and for the supposed right to harness uncultivated lands and resources. […]

By Kevin O’Hara The Duchess of Marlborough, circa 1903. “It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they […]

By Santiago Martinez Louis Dairymple. “School Begins.” Puck. (Keppler & Schwarzmann, New York: 1899). Two cartoons from different magazines published in New York, New York in […]