Journeys into the Past

By Caroline Godard Caroline Godard is majoring in English and is also enrolled in the combined BA/MA program in French.  In addition, she has done […]

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

By Rachel Wydra Santiago, who goes by “Santi,” is seven. He has recently learned the phrase “Come on!”. It is a useful English phrase for […]

By Jacob Bruggeman Why do we travel? Temporarily transporting ourselves to foreign places, regardless of how far removed from home they may be, is both […]

Honors students enrolled in Dr. Stephen Norris’s Russian Revolution class transformed the Upham Room in Upham Hall into a propaganda room.  Half of the students, […]

Note:  On February 2, 2017, students in Stephen Norris’s Spring 2017 Introduction to Russian Studies course engaged in a role-playing exercise that aimed to replicate […]

Meg Drown explores the continued significance of the Vietnam War in the form of the UXO Museum in Laos, a site she visited on July […]

In this photo essay, Maddie Lazarski, a recent History graduate, reflects on how the experience of visiting sites associated with the Great War in January […]