Come join us for an evening of snacks, comradeship, and classic terror! Phi Alpha Theta and the History Department are showing “Nosferatu: A Symphony of Terror.” All are welcome – but costumes (or some lame effort at a costume) are required! Thursday, October 28, 2010, in Severance 009. Snacks from 7:00 pm, film begins at… Read More
Summer Vocational Exploration With the Lilly Project
While my colleagues were eating samosas and drinking lassis at the South Asian party a couple weeks back, I walked up to the Lilly House to hear more about the Summer Vocational fellowships and internships sponsored by the Lilly Project. I’m glad I did, for I learned about some wonderful opportunities for students. I hope… Read More
History Course Descriptions Are Here!
Registration for the spring is coming soon! To learn more about what’s on offer in History, point your browser to http://history.voices.wooster.edu/courses/, or click on the “Courses” tab of the History Blog. You will see the course schedule for History together with up-to-date descriptions of these courses. Please, please, take a good look before registering for… Read More
Cricket Match Saturday at 4:30
Sat, October 9 · 4:30pm All are welcome to the First Annual College vs Community Cricket Match, to be held over Homecoming weekend. On Saturday Oct 9, at 4:30 pm the Wooster Fighting Scots Cricket Club will take on the newly formed Wooster Community Team under the floodlights in the John P. Papp (football) Stadium… Read More
Russian Dacha, Vodka and Zakuski
    In Russia, formal meals are constructed around two main courses. The second, rich, hot but very simple, consists of roasted meat and a starch such as barley or potatoes. However, the first, the zakuski (which literally means “tastes” but is probably best translated as “appetizers”), is the most important. The hosts will usually… Read More
The Russian Country House
I’m back in Wooster, having spent ten days in Moscow and another three in St. Petersburg, but I still have some images to post, including these: At the invitation of historian and journalist Nikita Pavlovich Sokolov, I was able to spend a day outside of Moscow, visiting 19th century country estates (“usad’by”) of Russian noblemen… Read More
Cafe Bob
The first Cafe Bob is this Thursday at 11 in Kauke 137. We are starting with a roundtable about the I.S., entitled “The Senior I.S.: From Topic to Thesis.” Jeanette Coledrige and Audrey Hudak will be leading it. They are going to talk about their research briefly, but then will focus on what is going… Read More
Opportunities in Social Entrepreneurship – From History to Practice?
In his Theses on Feurbach (written in 1845), Karl Marx wrote that “The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.” He raised profound questions: What is the connection between studying the world and social action? What should it be? Of course, for Marx, the study of history,… Read More
History Picnic a Big Success!
Everyone had a great time at the Department of History’s picnic! I’ve posted photos on the Department of History’s new flickr account. Please leave your comments! If you’d like to tag or identify people in the photos, you just need to add woosterhistory to your contacts. Thanks again to Phi Alpha Theta and the Department… Read More