Department of History

Publications

Harambee City

Nishani Frazier.

Black Power! It was a phrase that consumed the American imagination...more
The Politics and Culture of Modern Sports

Sheldon Anderson. Examines the role of modern sports in constructing national identities....more
Cornering the Market: Independent Grocers and Innovation in American Small Business

Susan V. Spellman

In popular stereotypes, local grocers were avuncular men....more.
Rendering Nature: Animals, Bodies, Places, Politics

Marguerite S. Shaffer and Phoebe S. K. Young.

We exist at a moment during which the entangled challenges facing the human and naturals worlds... more
Seen and Heard in Mexico

Elena Jackson Albarrán

During the first two decades following the Mexican Revolution, children in the country....more.
Space and Conversion in Global Perspective

Wietse de Boer

Examines experiences of conversion as they intersect with physical location, mobility, and interiority....more.
Blockbuster History in the New Russia

Stephen N. Norris

Seeking to rebuild the Russian film industry after its post-Soviet collapse, directors and producers sparked a revival of nationalist and patriotic sentiment....more
Enlightened Aid

Amanda Kay McVety

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 anthropology....more

Online Journals

Check out the following journals sponsored by the Department of History.

Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective, co-edited by Nicholas Breyfogle (Ohio State University and Steven Conn (Miami University)

Journeys into the Past: An Online Journal of the History Department, which features recent work by Miami University History students (general editor, Stephen Norris)

Spotlights

Hamilin receives NEH Public Scholar Award

Heather Burich (Class of 2019)

Kaylie Schunk (Class of 2018)

Offenburger develops online organizing tool for research collaboration

Jacob Bruggeman (Class of 2019)

Alumnus William H. Denney reflects on his life, career, and the study of history

More Spotlights...

Class Activities

Propaganda Takes Over! History students create a Soviet-style propaganda room and emigré club. Students in Dr. Stephen Norris's Introduction to Russian and East European Studies gave one of the department's seminar rooms a makeover. As part of the course, students explored the ways in which the Soviet Union used visual imagery and messaging to express political ideology. The group project also highlighted the communal and social dimensions of political activity.