Tag: History

EWU’s Assistant Professor of History and Director of Social Studies Education, Jacki Hedlund Tyler, published her book Leveraging an Empire – Settler Colonialism and the Legalities of Citizenship in the Pacific Northwest. The book evaluates Oregon’s exclusionary laws related to national issues of slavery, immigration, land ownership, education, suffrage, and naturalization and examines the process…

The EWU Women’s & Gender Studies presents for Winter 2020 Contemporary Issues in Feminist Research, featuring faculty and staff presenting research in their disciplines from a feminist perspective. Download the Winter 2020 Flyer Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women: History, Federal Indian Law, and Structural Discrimination Wednesday, Jan. 29 Noon to 12:50 p.m., 207 Monroe Hall…

Sponsored by EWU’s Department of History, World War I at 100 will give the campus community an opportunity to learn more about one of history’s most devastating conflicts. Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019 Screening of “Gallipoli” (1981) By Peter Weir, starring Mel Gibson 2-4 p.m. | Patterson 128 Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019 Panel Discussion on The…

By Vickie Shields Michael Conlin, PhD, is a professor of history and current president of the United Faculty of Eastern (UFE). I recently caught up with Professor Conlin, to discuss his new book, One Nation Divided by Slavery: Remembering the American Revolution While Marching toward the Civil War. VS: Why was it important for you to take on this subject…

Former U.S. Ambassador Thomas D. Boyatt delivers his lecture on The 100 Years Wars of the 20th Century in Hargreaves Hall on the Cheney Campus of Eastern Washington University.