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Baseball teammates curate Hank Aaron exhibit
EMORY: When a rare assortment of original materials pertaining to baseball legend Hank Aaron became available, three students became so interested that they volunteered to help with the exhibit. The...
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Professor leads pilgrimage to the Civil Rights South
U. WASHINGTON: Reading about the US Civil Rights Movement is compelling. But no book can match the experience of standing in the very locations where courageous activists have risked—and sometimes...
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History class: Did consumerism create childhood?
BU: For centuries before the Gilded Age, “kids were seen simply as little adults,” historian Marilyn Halter tells her students. She devotes the class, “The Modern American Consumer: the commodification...
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Minnar: This summer I’ll interview refugees from Bhutan
CARNEGIE MELLON: The Dietrich Honors Fellowship program offers summer funding to rising seniors who’ll complete an honors thesis in their last year of college. The support helps students with...
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Paul: ‘You start to feel a connection’ with history
U. KANSAS: History major Paul Fowler III explores racism and activism in the dusty manuscripts and faded pictures from Lawrence, Kansas’ past. As Fowler looks through materials in the Spencer Research...
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First women on campus were STEM ‘pioneers’
CALTECH: The first women to attend Caltech enrolled in 1970. Here are excerpts from a conversation among five of the first alumnae and Jacqueline Barton, chair and professor of chemistry. Barton: Each...
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Archive project links history & computer science
U. ROCHESTER: Rising senior Luke Kortepeter came to college on the pre-med track, but a class project in the library’s archives turned him into a computer science and history double major. He’s been...
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Erin: I’m studying my hometown’s debutante ball
DUKE: “I feel really connected to people in the past when I’m reading,” says senior French and history major Erin Russell. “History is really important because you can interpret the past in so many...
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Freshmen take a look at ‘science in the making’
STANFORD: Kate Nelson spent her freshman year studying the history of science, from the invention of geometry in ancient Greece to the political battles about climate change going on now in the United...
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Anima: ‘I dug into Bermuda’s past’
U. ROCHESTER: When Anima Ghimire’s history advisor recruited students for an archaeological dig in Bermuda, Ghimire instantly responded, “I’m on board!” During the summer of 2013, Ghirmire, a double...
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