History at Miami

Welcome to the Miami University Department of History! We hope you choose to join us for an undergraduate major, minor, or even a few classes; as a full-time Masters student, or part time as a teacher taking advanced credits. If so, you will learn that history isn’t just “names and dates” but also analysis; not just “facts” but their significance; not just a time and place in the past but humans living and loving, creating and destroying as we always have; not just “history repeating itself” but people making decisions in different conditions and sometimes acting on different values. Enter our website and browse! Join us and learn!

QUICK FACTS

History majors graduating in 2012-13:  90
History majors enrolled in 2012-13:  304
Enrollment in history courses, fall 2012:  2,229

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Recent Faculty Publications

Love in the Time of Revolution
Andrew Cayton

In 1798, English essayist and novelist William Godwin ignited a transatlantic scandal with Memoirs of the Author of "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman."  Most controversial were the details of the romantic liaisons of...

Writing Medieval Women's Lives
Charlotte Newman Goldy

Contributor and editor with Amy Livingstone.  Medieval women's history is entering a new stage.  In the last thirty years medievalists have recovered the sources about women, and have moved women to the foreground of narratives to view...

Blockbuster History in the New Russia: Movies, Memory, and Patriotism
Stephen M. Norris

Seeking to rebuild the Russian film industry after its post-Soviet collapse, directors and producers sparked a revival of nationalist and patriotic sentiment by applying Hollywood techniques to themes drawn from Russian history.  Unsettled...

Enlightened Aid: U.S. Development as Foreign Policy in Ethiopia
Amanda Kay McVety

Enlightened Aid is a unique history of foreign aid.  The book begins with the modern concept of progress in the Scottish Enlightenment, follows the development of this concept in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century economics and...

Looking South: Race, Gender and the Transformation of Labor from Reconstruction to Globalization
Mary E. Frederickson

Looking South writes southern workers onto a world stage as Mary E. Frederickson’s original scholarship seamlessly connects the New South, the Nuevo South, and the Global South. She highlights the major economic and cultural...

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