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ISU Historian Elected President of SHGAPE

Professor Stacy Cordery of the Iowa State University History Department was elected vice-president and president-elect of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (SHGAPE) in December. Prof. Cordery is Senior Historical Consultant for the Theodore Roosevelt Center and a long-time member of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Advisory Board. Author of Alice: … Continue reading ISU Historian Elected President of SHGAPE

History Graduate Earns College Young Alumni Award

The Department of History is pleased to announce that our 2009 graduate Maggie Luttrell Roby  is recipient of the 2022 College Young Alumni Award. Maggie, who also earned a Women’s Studies degree followed by a Masters in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, currently works for Cargill in Kansas City. She credits Prof. Michael Bailey with … Continue reading History Graduate Earns College Young Alumni Award

Historian Digs Into 1980s Farm Crisis

Iowa State University Distinguished Professor of History Pamela Riney-Kehrberg’s new book – When a Dream Dies: Agriculture, Iowa, and the Farm Crisis of the 1980s –was recently published by the University Press of Kansas. The research for this innovative work of social history draws extensively on sources in the Iowa Women’s Archives, the Drake University Political Papers Collection, records in the State Historical … Continue reading Historian Digs Into 1980s Farm Crisis

Dr. Pamela Riney-Kehrberg awarded the Agricultural History Society’s 2022 Gladys Baker Award

We are proud to announce that the Agricultural History Society’s 2022 Gladys Baker Award has been given to Dr. Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, Distinguished Professor of History. The award recognizes lifetime achievement in the field of agricultural history. It is named for Gladys Baker, who was born in rural Iowa in 1910 and educated at the University of … Continue reading Dr. Pamela Riney-Kehrberg awarded the Agricultural History Society’s 2022 Gladys Baker Award

ISU History Professor Featured on History Channel Documentary

A career spent studying the life, presidency, and family of Theodore Roosevelt was on full display when Prof. Stacy Cordery appeared recently on the two-part History Channel documentary, Theodore Roosevelt. Cordery, who teaches courses on the Gilded Age, First Ladies, and modern United States history, addressed many facets of Roosevelt’s fascinating life. Cordery is the … Continue reading ISU History Professor Featured on History Channel Documentary

A new book edited by James Andrews and Margaret LaWare will be published in June

Art and the Global City is based on an international conference in November of 2019 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. It included cultural historians, urban studies specialists, as well as Frankfurt School Communication scholars – all of which are interested in the relationships between art, architecture, and public space in international … Continue reading A new book edited by James Andrews and Margaret LaWare will be published in June

Dr. James T. Andrews co-edits upcoming book “Art and the Global City”

Dr. James T. Andrews (University Professor of Modern Russian History) and Dr. Margaret R. LaWare (Associate Professor of English)  announce the forthcoming publication of their new co-edited book Art and the Global City (Oxford/NYC: Peter Lang, June 2022). Based on an international conference at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (November 2019), the book … Continue reading Dr. James T. Andrews co-edits upcoming book “Art and the Global City”

Dr. Jack Seitz — “Ukraine War: Historical Background”

Dr. Jack Seitz, an alumnus of ISU, will be giving a talk titled “Ukraine War: Historical Background” on Monday, March 7, at 7pm.  You can attend the lecture via Webex.  The log in information is listed on the above flyer.

Amy Rutenberg, associate professor of history, is the new LAS Equity Advisor

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