On Monday, Sept. 27 at 3 p.m., the Department of History presents its first talk in the Fall 2021 History Symposium Series via Zoom. Jennifer McCutchen (University of Southern Maine) will present a talk titled "My Son’s Behavior Has Covered Me With Shame": Gunpowder’s Impact on Generational Notions of Masculinity in the Creek Confederacy.” Click […]

Speaker: Nathan Godfried Affiliation:  University of Maine Zoom Room As the dual forces of economic depression and fascism threatened U.S. society during the 1930s, a debate raged about the value of social activism in the “ivory tower.” While giving lip service to the concept of academic freedom, administrators, trustees and conservative faculty held firm to […]

The Spring 2022 Department of History Colloquium Series begins Monday, Jan. 31 at 3:00 p.m. with a talk by Brett Whalen (UNC-Chapel Hill) titled “Medieval Jesus: A Life." Whalen will explore the meaning of Jesus Christ in the Middle Ages. How did Christians, among others, continually “remold” Jesus to fit their needs during the thousand-plus years that […]