History Students Use Digital Tools to Explore U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
History students at CSU celebrate the cultures of the borderlands with an interactive story map for the El Chamizal National Monument.
Knierim chosen for Colorado Academic Standards Review Committee
Kurt Knierem chosen to serve on the Colorado Academic Standards Review and Revision Committee, helping prepare Colorado’s High School students for the college classroom
Professor Ann Little’s New Book on Early American History
“By following Esther Wheelwright’s life, we get to see it all – warfare, politics, diplomacy, and even accusations of espionage.” Professor Ann Little describes her new book on early American history, called The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright
CSU Grad attends AHA in Denver
Lisa Schnirel earned her undergraduate degree in Social Studies Teaching and her Master’s in History from CSU. She is a social studies teacher at STEM School and Academy in Denver. She attended the American Historical Association’s annual conference in Denver. It has almost been two years since I graduated with my master’s degree in […]
Graduate Student, Poppie Gullett, Explores Public History in Antarctica
“The sun didn’t set for almost three weeks, and by the end I’d forgotten what night time felt like.” CSU History Graduate Student, Poppie Gullett
Dr. Deborah Yalen wins NEH Fellowship
Associate Professor Deborah Yalen has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers for the 2017 academic year. Funding will support Dr. Yalen’s own scholarly contribution to an international research project entitled “Ideologies on Display: Jewish Ethnography in the Age of Lenin and Stalin.” This project explores the role of ethnographers in documenting the […]
CSU History Major Attends National History Conference
Jefferson Abbey, a senior in the CSU History Department, attended the annual meeting of the American Historical Association. Interested in graduate school, he wanted to see if he was making the right choice.
A New Era for Jeopardy!
There have been notable upsets in recent world history — the Cleveland Cavaliers winning the NBA Title, the Chicago Cubs winning the World Series, and Donald Trump winning the presidential election — but none of them compares to what happened in Clark Hall on November 11, 2016. The “Make America Rage Again” team, led by […]
CSU Graduate Will Wright appears on “Colorado Experience: Big Thompson Flood”
Will Wright, M.A. 2016, appeared on PBS’s “Colorado Experience: Big Thompson Flood.” The episode aired on October 2, 2016 and discusses the conditions that led to this traumatic disaster, the ramifications to the road, property, and residents of the canyon, and the equally cataclysmic flood that occurred in 2013. Wright is currently a doctoral student […]
Kim Daggett, Academic Success Coordinator
The Department of History’s new Academic Success Coordinator, Kim Daggett, is getting geared up for fall advising. She began her duties at CSU on August 29 and now, less than two months later, she is ready to see a steady stream of History majors in her office in Clark C207. In her short time at […]