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History
Over these last four years, the History Department has grown by 25 percent, and has added new strengths in medieval and early-modern European history, African and African-American history, women's history and women's studies, medical history, American environmental and urban history and South Asian history. The Department hopes to soon add new faculty in Japanese history and in the history of Africa's Atlantic diaspora.
Faculty in the history topic can discuss many research areas, including women's studies, education, anthropology, African and Afro-American Studies and religion.
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Linda Nicholson
Director, Women and Gender Studies Program
Expertise: feminism, gender studies, relationships, women, men, social identity
Direct contact: (314) 935-7479
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lnichols@wustl.edu
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Peter J. Kastor
Assistant Professor of History in Arts & Sciences
Peter Kastor, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of History, with a joint appointment as assistant director of American Culture Studies, both in Arts & Sciences. His research concerns the New Republic, the frontier, American expansion in the early 19th century, the Louisiana Purchase, ...
Expertise: American frontier, early Republic, cultural history, North American borderlands, Louisiana Purchase, expansion along the Lewis and Clark Trail, American foreign policy in 19th century, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-7663
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pjkastor@wustl.edu
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Iver Bernstein
Professor of History in Arts & Sciences
He is the author of "The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War," Oxford University Press. The 1990 book is considered the definite authority on this time in American history. Bernstein was awarded the George Washington Eggleston ...
Expertise: 19th-century U.S. history, Civil War, Reconstruction, American political culture
Direct contact: (314) 935-5401
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icbernst@wustl.edu
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Leslie Brown
Assistant Professor of History in Arts & Sciences
Leslie Brown is an expert in African-American history, especially the history of African-American women. Her recent journal articles include Jim Crow, The Sisters and Mothers are Called to the City: Black Women, Migration and Work, and Race, Place, Gender, and Space: The City as a Site of African American ...
Expertise: history, African American Studies, women
Direct contact: (314) 935-7279
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lbrownb@wustl.edu
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Henry W. Berger
Emeritus Professor of History
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Author of The United States, the PLO, and Stability in the Middle East, Henry Berger focuses on the history of American foreign relations, with particular interest in U.S. relations with the Middle East and Latin America. Berger, who has written on various aspects of U.S. foreign policy in the 20th ...
Expertise: 20th-century U.S. history, U.S. foreign policy, Middle East, Latin America, Vietnam War, American labor unions, trade expansion, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-8670
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hwberger@wustl.edu
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Bad for Baseball?
America ready to peg Barry Bonds as 'Bad Negro," says WUSTL essayist Gerald Early
July 13,
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While baseball purists may be poised to place a "steroid-fueled" asterisk next to Bond's name in the record books, to do so would be a mistake, one that follows an unfortunate pattern in the history of blacks in American sports, suggests Gerald Early, Ph.D., a noted essayist and book author who has written extensively on black culture and sports.
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Neandertal kin
Studies affirm relationship between early humans, Neandertals
June 14,
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| Erik Trinkaus, WUSTL professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, holding a Neandertal skull, says the evidence is very convincing that Neandertals and early humans mixed. |
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For nearly a century, anthropologists have been debating the relationship of Neandertals to modern humans. Central to the debate is whether Neandertals contributed directly or indirectly to the ancestry of the early modern humans that succeeded them. As this discussion has intensified in the past decades, it has become the central research focus of Erik Trinkaus, Ph.D., professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. Trinkaus has examined the earliest modern humans in Europe, including specimens in Romania, Czech Republic and France. Those specimens, in Trinkaus' opinion, have shown obvious Neandertal ancestry.
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From A to Z
Encyclopedia of Catholicism provides 'real portrait of Catholic Church'
May 14,
2007 --
Roman Catholicism, with its numerous saints, long history and deep traditions, can be difficult for the uninitiated to grasp. But a new book from an expert on the Catholic Church who teaches at Washington University in St. Louis should help to change that. The Encyclopedia of Catholicism, compiled by Frank K. Flinn, adjunct professor of religious studies in Arts & Sciences at Washington University, will be released May 20. More...
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The Day the Music Died
The Wall Street Journal
July 20,
2007 -- Article looks at the devastating effect the 1967 Detroit riot had on black economic development and its entrepreneurial gem, Motown Records. It plunged the city into a four-decade economic decline that is only now beginning to turn around.
WUSTL professor Gerald Early, author of One Nation Under a Groove: Motown and American Culture, is one of the experts commenting on the events of that time.
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St. Louis hosts events to mark anniversary of Dred Scott ruling
Associated Press State & Local Wire
and 8 others
March 1,
2007 -- On March 6, 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court denied slave Dred Scott his freedom, a decision that helped push a nation inflamed over slavery closer to Civil War.
Throughout St. Louis, events are being held to mark the 150th anniversary of the ruling in the court case that began in this city, and to foster new discussions about race and equality in America.
WUSTL history and law professor David Konig comments on the legacy of the decision.
WUSTL is holding a national symposium March 1-3. It aims to provide insights into American history, culture and the struggle for equality.
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Digging for the Truth
The History Channel
Sept. 22,
2006 -- WUSTL anthropology and archaeology professors Tristram Kidder and John Kelly were featured in a History Channel show on the people who lived in Cahokia.
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Early Humans Were Prey, Not Predators, Experts Say
National Geographic News online
and 19 others
March 8,
2006 -- News story looks at the debate over whether early humans were predators or prey.
WUSTL anthropologist Robert Sussman is co-author of a book that presents a new theory that is part of a movement to debunk a long-running scientific bias that early humans were warlike.
The researchers presented their theories in February at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in St. Louis.
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University library's collection tells story of secret codes
Associated Press and St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Aug. 15,
2005 -- The invention of the printing press didn't just make it easier to disseminate information, it made it easier to hide it, too -- as the collection of books in a vault at WUSTL shows. The books, some more than 500 years old, chronicle the history of secret codes -- some concealed so intricately that art professor Ken Botnick regularly shows them to his students. (Link also contains the text of the longer St. Louis Post-Dispatch article on the collection.)
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Olympic flame returns to first American host city
ESPN
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June 17,
2004 --
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| Washington University Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton looks on as the Olympic torch is passed. |
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A century after becoming the first American city to host the modern-era Olympic games, St. Louis once again held the flame. The route included a pass by Washington University's Francis Field, rededicated as the site of the track-and-field events of the sweltering 1904 Games.
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You're no Isaac Newton
The New York Times
April 25,
2004 -- Derek Hirst, chairman of the department of history in Arts & Sciences, reviews The Curious Life of Robert Hooke, The Man Who Measured London, by Lisa Jardine. Hooke is described as a rival to Newton. His pursuits included studying the planetary orbits, inventing and building scientific instruments, and pioneering work with microscopes.
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Did Sacagawea have a miscarriage?
MSNBC
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April 9,
2004 --
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Famed American Indian guide Sacagawea's near-fatal illness during the Lewis and Clark expedition may have been the result of a miscarriage, two scholars believe. History professors Peter Kastor and Conevery Bolton Valencius said the explorers' extensive journals from their 1804-06 westward expedition offer clues — through euphemisms common at the time — indicating Sacagawea may have become ill while pregnant.
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