History Halloween Movie Night – Nosferatu

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

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