Department News

Associate Professor Matthew Crocker's essay "The Missouri Compromise, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Southern Strategy," is included in the 2008 edition of Major Problems in the Early Republic,1787 - 1848.

Assistant Professor Graham Warder will attend the "Disability History: Theory and Practice" conference at San Francisco State University and present his work on a panel called “Referencing Disability: The Encyclopedia of American Disability History Project.” Disability

Assistant Professor Nicholas Germana addresses the German Studies Association annual conference in St. Paul, Minnesota. October 2008.  www.thegsa.org

Associate Professor and Chair Greg Knouff addresses the 14th Annual Omohundro Insitute of Early American History and Culture Conference, Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts.June 2008 Program

Lecturer John Lund addresses The Historical Society’s 2008 Conference, "Migration, Diaspora, Ethnicity, & Nationalism in History," Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. June 2008. Program

Lecturer Susan Wade addresses the 43rd International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan. May 2008. Congress

New KSC History Courses for Fall 2008: The department welcomes Professor Mireya Salgado Gomez, Visiting Latin American Historian from Pontifica Universidad Catolica del Ecuador. Check out her fall 2008 courses.  

NEH Grant for Helen Keller Project
The department is pleased to announce that in May 2007 the College received a grant of $199,740 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for a project entitled "Helen Keller in Her Times." Assistant Professor of History Graham Warder is the project director. The project addresses several themes, including the historically rooted experiences of disability, class, and gender; how models of language acquisition have changed over time; Keller's use of and manipulation by various media as an international celebrity; and her efforts as a human rights activist. Over the next three years, a partnership between Keene State, the Hampshire Educational Collaborative, and the Disability History Museum will develop curriculum materials for secondary and higher education that will place the life and legacy of Helen Keller in historical context.

The institutional grant administrator is Mary-Ellen Fortini. All materials financed by the grant will be made publicly available on both the Disability History Museum and PBS websites.

The work is connected with the ongoing production of a documentary film, Becoming Helen Keller, produced by Laurie Block and tentatively scheduled to be broadcast nationally by PBS in 2010. Through the grant, primary sources about Helen Keller from various archives will be collected, digitized, and annotated for classroom use. Background essays by scholars from across the nation will also be produced, and classroom activities will be outlined and piloted.

Fall 2008 History Courses
Accurate as of 4/29/2008 at 3:38 PM

Section	Syn.	Title	Semester	Days	Time	Room	Cr.	Faculty
HIST-122-01	46443	Modern East Asia	2008FA	MWF	12:00PM 01:10PM	MORR 202	4	Higgins
HIST-141-01	46429	Western Civilization I	2008FA	TR	02:00PM 03:45PM	MORR 207	4	Granquist
HIST-161-01	46378	Topics in U.S. Hist I	2008FA	TR	10:00AM 11:45AM	MORR 110	4	Crocker
HIST-200-01	46388	Read & Write History	2008FA	MW	08:00AM 09:45AM	MORR 207	4	Wilson
HIST-253-01	46391	The Second World War	2008FA	TR	08:00AM 09:45AM	MORR 207	4	Vincent
HIST-290-01	46385	St: the 1960S	2008FA	MW	06:00PM 07:45PM	MORR 207	4	Hayden
HIST-290-02	46465	ST: Colonial Latin Amer Hist	2008FA	MW	12:00PM 01:45PM	MORR 110	4	Gomez
HIST-290-03	46466	ST: Colonial Latin Amer Hist	2008FA	MW	04:00PM 05:45PM	MORR 207	4	Gomez
HIST-321-01	46444	Late Imperial China	2008FA	MW	04:00PM 05:45PM	MORR 208	4	Higgins
HIST-330-01	46382	Ancient Civilization	2008FA	T	08:00AM 11:30AM	RHOD N118	4	Whitcomb
HIST-332-01	46389	Greece in Classical Age	2008FA	MW	10:00AM 11:45AM	LIBR 121	4	Wilson
HIST-340-01	46430	French Revol & Napoleon	2008FA	TR	10:00AM 11:45AM	MORR 207	4	Granquist
HIST-342-01	46431	Europe 1918-1945	2008FA	W	10:00AM 01:30PM	MORR 207	4	Granquist
HIST-362-01	46379	Early American Republic	2008FA	TR	02:00PM 03:45PM	PARK 210	4	Crocker
HIST-364-01	46395	19th Century America	2008FA	TR	02:00PM 03:45PM	MORR 109	4	Warder
HIST-366-01	46463	U.S. in Crisis: 1920-1950	2008FA	TR	12:00PM 01:45PM	MORR 206	4	Orelup
HIST-366-02	46464	U.S. in Crisis: 1920-1950	2008FA	TR	02:00PM 03:45PM	MORR 208	4	Orelup
HIST-399-01	46400	Islamic Kingdoms Mediev. Eur.	2008FA	MW	02:00PM 03:45PM	MORR 109	4	Wade
HIST-399-02	46467	AST: Pop. Uprisings in Andes	2008FA	TR	02:00PM 03:45PM	MORR 204	4	Gomez
This is an upper-level course on popular rebellions, insurrections, and revolutionary movements in the Andean region of South America ca, 1600-1800.
HIST-490-01	46373	AST: The Enlightenment	2008FA	MW	04:00PM 05:45PM	MORR 210	4	Germana
In this class, students will engage in an in-depth study of the 20th and early 21st century historiography of the Enlightenment. Different historical methodologies ? intellectual, cultural, social, and political - will be explored and analyzed. Students will be responsible for in-class presentations, two historiographical essays, and a research paper.
HIST-490-02	46390	AST: Lng & Cult Anc Athens II	2008FA	MW	02:00PM 03:45PM	MORR 210	4	Wilson
A continuation of Language Culture of Ancient Athens in which students will continue learning to read Attic Greek in preparation for advanced study of ancient history. Prereq. Language and Culture of Ancient Athens or permission of instructor.
HIST-495-01	46376	SEM: Gender Early N. America	2008FA	M	06:00PM 09:30PM	MORR 210	4	Knouff
This is an advanced seminar that focuses on various theoretical approaches to the study of gender in early North America, ca. 1500-1800. The course analyzes gender roles as culturally constructed and contested. There is particular emphasis on how concepts of masculinity and femininity were variously understood by European, Native, and African Americans.