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History Club in the News
The Valparaiso University History Club and the Porter County Museum recently combined for a mutually beneficial experience. Please read the Northwest Indiana Times’ article to learn more. […]
New Harmony Trip
Professor Heath Carter recently took his American Utopias class for an overnight trip to New Harmony, Indiana, the site of two 19th-century radical communitarian experiments. […]
Holocaust Displays in the Christopher Center
The Department of History and the Valparaiso University Archives and Special Collections would like to thank the Florence and Laurence Spungen Family Foundation for the loan of their Holocaust materials that are currently on display in the Christopher Center. These displays are open to the public. A Survivor’s Luck Casey Terry, a student in […]
History Extravaganza – Fall 2017
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History Extravaganza – Spring 2018
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Welcoming New Colleagues
In the 2012-2013 academic year the department welcomed two new colleagues: Professor Yun Xia and Professor Heath Carter. Professor Xia received her Ph.D. from the University of Oregon and is working on a book about the transformations of Chinese political and legal institutions during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). Professor Carter received his Ph.D. from […]
Professor Rittger’s Latest Book
Professor Ron Rittgers’ latest book, “The Reformation of Suffering: Pastoral Theology and Lay Piety in Late Medieval and Early Modern Germany”, came out in July 2012 with Oxford University Press. The book has been exceptionally well received. The adjectives deployed in a series of very enthusiastic reviews include “marvelous,” “masterful,” and “convincing.” You can find […]
Commemorating Civil Rights
During the first week of spring break 2013 Professors Bloom and Carter led a group of 23 students, as well as five faculty and staff, on a Civil Rights trip. The group stayed for five days at Concordia College Selma, where they had the privilege of interacting with local faculty and students. The Valpo team […]
Making History in Shanghai
In the spring 2013 Professors Yun Xia and Kevin Ostoyich won an ASIANetwork grant to take students on a summer research trip to Shanghai. While there the Valparaiso University team investigated the history of Shanghai’s Jewish refugees during WWII. When the rest of the world shut its doors to Europe’s Jews, Shanghai became a last […]