In its 18th year, the Summer Fellows research program at Ursinus College has stayed close to its roots as a time for students to work on original research with faculty, without the distractions of the academic semester. Read More
Ursinus College Summer Fellow Lindsay Doyle is discovering a new perspective on the American slavery debate through a local newspaper from the 1850s. Read More
Susanna Throop, Assistant Professor of History, is now a Contributor at Smarthistory at the Khan Academy online. She has written four introductory essays on the crusades, her area of expertise, and is working with Smarthistory’s executive editors to develop a short accompanying video. Read More
Mary Kobor 2014 spent much of her free time this year hunched over rocks and minerals. She helped to organize the expansive and beautiful collection housed in Pfahler Hall. Read More
The Honorable Richard W. Murphy, prior Ambassador to Mauritania, Syria, Philippines and Saudi Arabia, will speak April 23 at 7 p.m. on “The Arab Spring: Russia and Syria” at Ursinus College, Olin Hall, room 108. Read More
Congratulations to Andrea Kuhn 2014 and Julia Glauberman 2014, who both won prizes for best papers in their categories at the Eastern PA conference of Phi Alpha Theta, the History Honor Society, at Shippensburg University on April 5th. Read More
Ursinus College presents a Holocaust Remembrance Program, “A Survivor Speaks,” April 8, from 4:30 to 5:45 p.m., in Olin Hall, room 107. Read More
Deborah Barkun, Assistant Professor of Art History, is the recipient of the Society of Photographic Education’s 2014 Award for Excellence in Historical, Critical and Theoretical Writing. Read More
The Ursinus History Department students did some “field work” last semester with a trip to the battlefields and sites of Gettysburg. Read More
Students in The Tumultuous Reign of Henry VIII (History 150: Historical Investigations) this past semester were swept into the past when their classroom was transformed into sessions of England’s Reformation Parliament. Read More