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The Devil’s Own Purgatory The United States Mississippi River Squadron in the Civil War
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Read More: The Devil’s Own Purgatory The United States Mississippi River Squadron in the Civil WarThe Devil’s Own Purgatory is the first complete history of the Union navy’s Mississippi Squadron, a fleet that prowled the Mississippi River and its tributaries during the American Civil War. The squadron battered Confederate forts, participated in combined operations with the army, obliterated the Confederate fleet, protected Union supply lines, fought…
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The Women of Antioch: Gender and Political Culture, 1095–1204
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Read More: The Women of Antioch: Gender and Political Culture, 1095–1204The Women of Antioch is both a biography of four women—Constance, Alice, Constance II, and Maria, all connected through marriage or birth to the crusader principality of Antioch—and an analysis of the political cultures within which they maneuvered, including eleventh-century France, Norman Italy, Antioch and Byzantium. The book’s comparative perspective facilitates…
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Profitable Offices: Corruption, Anticorruption, and the Formation of Venezuela’s Neopatrimonial State, 1908-1948
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Read More: Profitable Offices: Corruption, Anticorruption, and the Formation of Venezuela’s Neopatrimonial State, 1908-1948During the crucial period of its formation, the opposing forces of corruption and anticorruption shaped Venezuela’s new national state and its relationship with society. National strongman Juan Vicente Gómez, who ruled from 1908 to 1935, fastened control over key areas of the economy, extracted wealth from the Venezuelan people, and…
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New Books Network Interviews Dr. Duffy on her Recent Publication
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Read More: New Books Network Interviews Dr. Duffy on her Recent PublicationTune in here to listen to Dr. Andrea Duffy’s podcast interview with Matthew Brown, New Books Network Host. Chronicling the retreat of mobile pastoralization from Mediterranean coastlines, Andrea Duffy’s Nomad’s Land: Pastoralism and French Environmental Policy in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean World (U Nebraska Press, 2019) investigates a mystery: where did the sheep go?…
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New Books Network Interviews Dr. Lindsay on his Latest Anthology Publication
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Read More: New Books Network Interviews Dr. Lindsay on his Latest Anthology PublicationTune in here to listen to Dr. James Lindsay, Professor of History at CSU and Dr. Suleiman Mourad, Professor of Religion at Smith College discuss their latest publication, Muslim Sources of the Crusader Period: An Anthology. Aaron M. Hagler interviewed Dr. Lindsay and Dr. Mourad on the New Books Network…
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Undergraduate students share Fort Collins’ history in local bathrooms
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Read More: Undergraduate students share Fort Collins’ history in local bathroomsLocal bathroom breaks just got a lot more interesting, thanks to a Colorado State University public history course’s “in-stall project.” The project is connecting Fort Collins’ past and present — all within the stalls of public restrooms. Thomas Cauvin, a CSU assistant professor in the Department of History, assigns an interesting…
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Graduate Students studying museum methods present Brewing History: Fort Collins’ Global Connections
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Read More: Graduate Students studying museum methods present Brewing History: Fort Collins’ Global ConnectionsEditor’s note: Since this story was first posted, the Global Village Museum has decided to close until March 28 due to concerns over COVID-19. See the museum’s website for updates. A new exhibit about the history of beer brewing — both locally and internationally — opens Friday, March 6, at the Global…
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Dr. Sarah Payne and graduate students use ArcGIS mapping to create a digital history of CSU
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Read More: Dr. Sarah Payne and graduate students use ArcGIS mapping to create a digital history of CSUSpace matters. The spaces where we live, work, and play shape how we socialize with one another. Our social interactions, in turn, influence spaces. To understand what we mean, take a look at the image to the right. Now, let’s trace the images displayed around the ram’s horn, starting with…
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Dr. Ruth Alexander and a team of graduate students collect oral histories from professionals responding to the 2013 flood
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Read More: Dr. Ruth Alexander and a team of graduate students collect oral histories from professionals responding to the 2013 floodSeptember 2015 marked the second anniversary of the floods that ravaged Colorado’s Front Range. In an interview about the devastation, Jamestown Mayor Tara Schoedinger recalled a dramatic moment following days of rain: “My husband … ran outside and said, ‘There goes the gulch.’ … He came back in less than…
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PLHC Program Manager, Ariel Schnee, and RMHS teacher, Kurt Knierim, introduce high school students to careers in history
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Read More: PLHC Program Manager, Ariel Schnee, and RMHS teacher, Kurt Knierim, introduce high school students to careers in historyOn March 6, the Public Lands History Center at Colorado State University welcomed 40 high school students from Rocky Mountain High School and Berthoud High School to campus for History Day, a collaborative program that raises awareness of the history major and career options for historians. I PLHC Program Manager…