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The faculty in the Department of History in Arts & Sciences has expertise in most of the major time periods and geographical areas of interest: the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and South Asia. The faculty expertise includes British history, European history, American history, medical history, medieval and early-modern European history, African history, African-American history, African Diaspora, Latin America history, women's history, women's studies history, premodern Islamic history, Jewish history, American environmental and urban history, and South Asian history. Many members of the faculty offer courses in interdisciplinary programs and/or team-teach with members of other departments.
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'A brilliant scholar, an outstanding teacher'
St. Louis Public Schools teaching award named for Washington University Professor David Konig
Nov. 4,
2009 -- An award for the St. Louis Public Schools' social studies teacher of the year has been named in honor of David T. Konig, Ph.D., professor of history, of African & African American Studies and director of the Legal Studies Program, all in Arts & Sciences, and professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis.
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Obama shaping a different world
Historian finds 'profound' difference between President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize and those awarded to Presidents Wilson and Roosevelt
Oct. 9,
2009 --
An historian of politics and American institutions at Washington University in St. Louis says that there is a "profound" difference between the awarding of a Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama and ones to Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. And it has nothing to do with the fact that President Obama is only eight months into his first term as president and Presidents Roosevelt and Wilson were both near the end of their second terms when they received theirs, says Peter J. Kastor, Ph.D., an associate professor of history and of American culture studies in Arts & Sciences.
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'Deeply saddened by this event'
WUSTL statement on incident at Holocaust Museum
June 10,
2009 -- Washington University is dismayed and shocked to learn that an attack was made today at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. The university has a long-standing commitment to human rights and religious studies, including the Holocaust and Jewish studies, as well as being a sponsor of Holocaust lectures by experts from around the world.
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Hillel J. Kieval
Chair of history and the Gloria M. Goldstein Professor of Jewish History and Thought in Arts & Sciences
Professor Kieval's work focuses on transformations in Jewish culture and society in East Central Europe (Austria-Hungary, Germany and Poland) from the Enlightenment to the Second World War; more specifically, on the effects of modernization projects, ethnic and national struggles, social conflict, ...
Expertise: Jewish culture in East Central Europe, antisemitism on Jewish life, Jewish-Gentile relations, linguistic, cultural and communal affiliations among Jews, Jewish society in Bohemia, Jewish experience in Czech lands, …
Direct contact: 314-935-5426
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hkieval@wustl.edu
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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
Associate Professor of History in Arts & Sciences
Expertise: The American presidency, role of the vice president, American political institutions, the Founding Fathers, federal governance and governing foreign peoples, American foreign policy in 19th century, early American republic, …
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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Howard Brick
Professor of History in Arts & Sciences
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Brick is an expert on the history of the United States since 1865, including a special focus on the history of labor, socialist and radical protest movements. His interests include U.S. intellectual, cultural, social and political history. He has written extensively about the relationship of capitalism ...
Expertise: protest movements, anti-war demonstrations, 20th-century America, history of labor, socialist and radical movements, disruptive protest since the 1930s, American intellectual, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-4251
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hbrick@wustl.edu
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Obama takes more questions than Bush
The Washington Times
April 28,
2009 -- President Obama has gotten off to a busy start, fielding more questions in formal press conferences in his first months in office than the American people saw from his predecessor. WUSTL history professor Peter Kastor comments.
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A moment in history: The American story renewed
Associated Press
and 32 others
Jan. 21,
2009 -- WUSTL cultural historian Peter Kastor comments on Obama's place in America's history.
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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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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
and 39 others
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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