Department of History

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# Title Date Summary
51 'What makes museums tick?'
Northern Iowan 103:21, p.5
Billie Bailey, executive director for the Grout Museum, will share an overview of what the museum business is all about; will consider history, funding, and careers with museums.
52 UNI hosting Middle East expert
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Biographical profile of As'ad Abu Khalil.
53 Grout Museum director to present lecture at UNI
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"What Makes Museums Tick?" will be presented by Billie Bailey Wednesday, November 8.
54 "Congress, the President, and the Balance of Power" topic for UNI Constitution Day
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Former U.S. representatives Sam Coppersmith and Manuel Lujan will discuss "Congress, the President, and the Balance of Power."
55 UNI's Becker History Lecture to discuss loyalty, virtue
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"Samurai Trouble: Is Loyalty a Virtue?" will be the first lecture of the year for the history department. Mary Elizabeth Berry will deliver the 33rd annual Carl L. Becker Memorial Lecture in history.
56 UNI French Film Festival continues, March 23, 27
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The Tournees French and Francophone Film Festival, sponsored by many departments at UNI, continues on campus.
57 History lecture to discuss the "Widow of the Confederacy" at UNI
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UNI History Lecture will discuss Mary Anna Jackson as a Confederate Biographer, lecture will be given by Wallace Hettle.
58 Monday, March 6
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CROW Forum series will present "Jim Crow's Genuine Audience" by UNI professor of history Brian Roberts.
59 Wednesday, Feb. 1
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Leslie Schwalm will give presentation on civil rights; Crimson Café Poetry night will be held.
60 UNI history lecture features impact of emancipation on African-Americans in Midwest
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"Freedom in the Heartland: African-Americans and Civil Rights in the Age of Emancipation" will be the lecture topic for Leslie Schwalm.
61 Lecture at UNI to discuss U.S. presidency and war
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John Mueller will present "The Presidency, Public Opinion and War," at the annual R. Gordon Hoxie Lecture.
62 History instructor's publications about Civil War, Cedar Falls
Northern Iowan 102:13, p.14
Ken Lyftogt has worked at UNI for nineteen years; has published work including books about the Civil War, and his master thesis.
63 Banning of Islamic head scarves in French schools featured topic in UNI lecture
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Joan Wallach Scott of the school of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N. J. will speak at lecture sponsored by History Department and Phi Alpha Theta.
64 News Brief/ Calendar of Events
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A partial listing of events happening during the week of August 28-September 3.
65 Holocaust expert to speak at UNI
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Eric Ehrenreich will present "Neutral Anti-Semitism: Scientific Racial Propaganda and the Holocaust."
66 Wednesday, Feb. 2
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Julie Husband will present lecture tonight; the Mittens will perform at KUNI; the Flute Choir will perform.
67 Husband gives lecture on 'Roots and Rhetorics of African-American Conservatism'
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Julie Husband will deliver the Phi Alpha Theta lecture on February 2.
68 'Science and the Federal Government' topic for next UNI history lecture
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Joanne Goldman will lecture.
69 UNI's Charlotte Wells to speak on UNI History Lecture Series Oct. 13
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Will discuss France's economoic development during the post-religious war era and how it contributed to trade policies during the American Revolution.
70 UNI to host 31st annual Carl L. Becker Memorial Lecture in history
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Nancy Maclean will speak about how the women's workplace activism changed the United States.
71 What's up
Northern Iowan 100:52, p.4
Meetings and events planned.
72 Anniversary of Rwandan massacre observed at UNI
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Stephen Rapp, senior prosecutor at the United Nations for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, will speak on Thursday, April 15.
73 Social construction of work in the Amana Society topic for UNI history lecture, Nov. 12
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Peter Hoehnle to discuss labor in the Amana Society.
74 Lecture 'digs up' cemetery research
Northern Iowan 100:19, p.1
Professor Thomas Connors' lecture about death and cemeteries in the nineteenth century was held on Halloween night.
75 Edgar Allen Poe, Sleepy Hollow, and death in mid-19th century America topic for UNI history lecture series Oct. 29
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Discussion on how 19th century writers Poe and Washington Irving dealt with the issue of urban burial.
76 Martin takes Johnson's place as head of history dept
Northern Iowan 99:58, p.1
John Johnson steps down after fifteen years; Robert Martin will assume duties in the fall; photo.
77 UNI history lecture to discuss Spanish Inquisition in Colonial Mexico
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Nora Jaffary will discuss "Indians, Africans and the Creation of 'Deviant' Catholicism in Colonial Mexico" on March 12.
78 Elvis and his effects on popular music next topic for UNI history lecture series
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John Baskerville will present "Elvis as Cultural Bridge: Signifying in American Popular Music."
79 Prominent poet passes through UNI
Northern Iowan 99:25, p.1
Ray Young Bear spoke on "Native American Literature and Traditional Tribal Values" on November 21; photo.
80 Poet Ray Young Bear to present address at UNI
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Ray Young Bear will speak on "Native American Literature and Traditional Tribal Values" on November 21.
81 Middle-class America in mid-19th century topic for UNI history lecture series Wednesday, Nov. 20
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Brian Roberts will present "Exactly What Americans Ought to Be: The Populist Radicalism of the Hutchinson Family Singers, 1842-1844."
82 UNI to host 29th Annual Carl L. Becker Memorial Lecture in History
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Chun-shu Chang, professor of history at the University of Michigan, will present the Becker Memorial Lecture.
83 UNI to host final Phi Alpha Theta/History Lecture Series program of academic year Wednesday, April 10
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Trudy Eden will present, "The Diary, the Dappled Boy and the Disinterred Dad," as a part of the history lecture series.
84 Tang China topic for UNI History Lecture Series Wednesday, Nov. 14
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Charles Holcombe will present "Immigrants and Strangers: From Cosmopolitanism to Confucian Universalism in Tang China (618-907)."
85 UNI to host History Lecture Wednesday, Oct. 17
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Gregory Breuss will speak on "The Chesme Church and the Construction of Empire in Catherine the Great's Russia.
86 UNI Department of History announces 2001-2002 scholarship recipients
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A list of recipients is given.
87 Lecture series will explore "Scrolls, scandals, and sandals: a history of the controversy over the Dead Sea Scrolls"
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Kenneth Atkinson will examine the mystery and history of the Dead Sea Scrolls as the topic for the Phi Alpha Theta/Department of History Lecture Series.
88 Phi Alpha Theta/Department of History Lecture Series will explore Women and Men in Warfare and migration: Gender imbalance among pre-historic pueblos
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Information concerning the contents of the lecture given by Juile Lowell.
89 UNI to host 27th Annual Carl L. Becker Memorial Lecture in History
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Walter Leonard Arnstein will speak on Queen Victoria.
90 Media Advisory: UNI political experts list
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List of UNI experts in governmental, national, and international politics.
91 Profile: Chuck Quirk
Campus News Network 10:19, p.3
Profile of Chuck Quirk, faculty member of the History Department; photo.
92 "Nontraditional parenting, race and the Nazi state" is the topic of March 8 Phi Alpha Theta/Department of history Lecture Series at UNI
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Michelle Mouton, UNI assistant professor of history, will present her paper on Nazi influence on families.
93 1950s become new topic of discussion
Northern Iowan 96:23, p.2
Topic of Wednesday's Phi Alpha Theta/Department of History Lecture Series will be "Revisiting the 1950's: Images of Popular Culture".
94 "Tom Jefferson [heart] Sally Hemings: a match made (up) in history" will be the subject of Oct. 27 Phi Alpha Theta/Department of History Lecture
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Andrew Burstein will deliver lecture on public fascination with DNA results that link the child of Sally Hemings to Thomas Jefferson.
95 Iowa's new immigrant work force topic for University of Northern Iowa history lecture Wednesday, Nov. 11
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Mark Grey to speak on immigrant workforce for Phi Alpha Theta and Department of History Lecture Series.
96 The University of Northern Iowa Departments of Modern Languages and History, and the Women's Study Program, sponsor Australian lecturer
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University of Northern Iowa will present a lecture by Lisa Fischer, October 12 at 7 p.m. in Baker Hall, room 161.
97 University of Northern Iowa to host native Iowan Jack Bender for Phi Alpha Theta / Department of History Lecture on Oct. 14
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Jack Bender will speak on how comic strips have viewed political issues.
98 Final history lecture of 1997-98 at University of Northern Iowa to feature "Andrew Jackson's Gender" Wednesday, April 15
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Wallace A. Hettle to present address entitled " Andrew Jackson's Gender" on April 15 as part of History Lecture Series.
99 African Americans revolt in Waterloo, Iowa topic for University of Northern Iowa history lecture Wednesday, Feb. 11
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Herbert Jones to speak February 11 on the African-American revolt in Waterloo. Ronnie L. Podolefsky to speak March 11 on suffrage.
100 Has there always been a "G. I. Jane?"
Northern Iowan 94:4, p.4
Linda Kerber and May Brodbeck lecture on American women's invlovement in military service.