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
Four Ursinus seniors are the nominees for The Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, which offers them the chance to complete a creative project during a year traveling abroad. Read More
An essay by recent graduate Katherine Pierpont on the variety of late medieval laws governing prostitution will be published in Proto: An Undergraduate Humanities Journal in 2014. Pierpont, a double major in History and English, started the research for a History course called Gender and Sexuality in Medieval Europe last fall. Read More
This year 11 full-time, 2 part-time visiting, and 14 part-time faculty members joined the Ursinus College faculty. Read More
As national headlines simmer on gun violence and gun rights, Tony Sierzega 2014 has been spending his summer examining the Second Amendment. More precisely, he is looking at the legal scholarship and politics behind the individual and collective right interpretations of this section of the United States Constitution. Read More