[Ohiogift] August Newsletter from the National History Club

[Art Snyder]

        National History Club Newsa partner of HISTORY®August 2015 
 
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 Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution, by Kathleen DuVal
                                    
 Revealing an entirely new, global perspective on the Revolutionary period, historian Kathleen DuVal turns to personal stories such as Irish trader Oliver Pollock, Scottish plantation owners James and Isabella Bruce, and Creek leader Alexander McGillivray for whom the stakes of the American Revolution went far beyond the issue of colonial independence. These individuals, their communities, and nations weighed their options, deciding based on personal interests whether independent states or loyal British colonies would best serve them as neighbors, let alone future rulers. DuVal explores how so-called American independence affected the lives of those living on the edges of British colonial America, such as slaves, Indians, women, and the colonists of other European nations and finds that the war left some much more free than others.                       "[An] astonishing story . . . Paint yourself a mental picture of the American War of Independence. If all you see are British redcoats battling minutemen and Continentals, Kathleen DuVal's Independence Lost will knock your socks off . . . To read [this book] is to see the task of recovering the entire American Revolution has barely begun."  -- The New York Times Book Review             
  KATHLEEN DuVAL teaches Early American history and American Indian history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her previous books include The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent, winner of the J. G. Ragsdale Book Award from the Arkansas Historical Association. She is also co-editor of Interpreting a Continent: Voices from Colonial America.             
  Random House | Hardcover | 464 pages | ISBN: 978-1-400-06895-1 | $28.00             
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          Penn State University
                              The History Department at Pennsylvania State University is proud to support the good work of the National History Club --- and further encourages high school NHC members to consider studying history at Penn State. The Department offers a wide, diverse, inviting range of undergraduate courses for the history major covering virtually all historical time periods and regions.             
  "The Battle of Gettysburg in American Historical Memory," "Tibet:  People, Places and Space," "Baseball in Comparative History," "Capitalism in Asia," "The History of Madness," "The History of the FBI" --- these are just a few of the many courses you might take if you study history at Penn State! The Department boasts a distinguished, committed and student-centered faculty. Just this past year, two History faculty members garnered prestigious national book awards (Amy Greenberg forThe Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico and Janina Safran for Defining Boundaries in al-Andalus:  Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Islamic Iberia).             
  History majors have the opportunity to work closely with such fine scholars and teachers --- one setting being in the small upper-level research paper seminar, History 302w (a writing intensive course required of all of our majors). Wonderfully supplementing the History Department is the George and Ann Richards Civil War-era Center. The Center --- with its fine roster of scholars, publication of The Journal of the Civil War Era, and fascinating speaker and conference series --- makes it one of the best places to study the Civil War in the nation!             
  Last but not least, the History Department and the Richards Center have developed an extensive undergraduate intern program with a variety of paid summer internships at nearby National Parks and Battlefields (Gettysburg, Antietam, and Harpers Ferry) plus rewarding, hands-on unpaid internships with local museums and historical societies. You are invited to contact the Department's Undergraduate Director, Dr. Michael Milligan and/or Undergraduate Adviser, Mr. Ben Whitesell should you have any questions or wish to know more about Penn State History.             
          Visit the PSU History Department!     Start a History Club Today!
                              When you join the National History Club, you join students and teachers from around the country in discovering, learning, reading, writing, teaching, and living history. Our main goal with the NHC is to bring students and teachers with a real passion for history together, helping them learn from the ideas and activities that are exchanged through our eNewsletter, eUpdates, and other communication methods. We do not limit the scope of activities that a chapter may participate in---each club is allowed to navigate its own course. This allows for a wide-range of really interesting activities that are displayed in each Newsletter and on our website. Schools are free to decide whether their chapter will be a regular History Club (open to all) or a History Honor Society (with specific requirements for induction). The NHC also co-sponsors multiple award programs to recognize outstanding student members, Advisors, and chapters, which include:             
  * "History Student of the Year" award             
  * "Lessons of Leadership" contest             
  * National Advisors of the Year and National Chapters of the Year             
  * National History Scholars Society             
          Find out more information!	 University of Colorado
                              The University of Colorado Boulder History Department is renowned for dynamic teaching and cutting-edge scholarship. Our professors take great pride in their engaged, innovative teaching. Faculty members have won multiple teaching prizes over the years.             
  CU Boulder History majors get their feet wet with an introductory class on Global History, learn the craft of the discipline in an intensive seminar on “Historical Thinking and Writing,” and develop breadth in specialized topical classes intended just for history majors. Topics are wide ranging. In any given year, they might include “Aztecs, Incas, and the Spanish Conquest,” “WWII in Asia and the Pacific,” “Islam in the Modern World,” “Decolonization of the British Empire,” “Europe in the High Middle Ages,” “Jacksonian America,” or “Buddha to Gandhi: A History of Indian Nonviolence,” to name just a few. Seniors wrap up their careers with a focused senior seminar that asks them to engage in their own research on the topic at hand.             
  The CU Boulder History Department has a vibrant and rigorous honors program, in which our best History majors undertake original research and craft carefully-argued honors theses under the tutelage of individual professors. This is a true capstone experience for those who undertake it. The work is difficult and demanding, but the result is genuine expertise, not to mention life-long pride in the creation of original, cutting-edge scholarship.             
  Our majors graduate not just with research skills but also with competence in written and spoken communication, and critical thinking, and analysis. They know how to plan projects, appraise sources, read closely, write, and present their work clearly. A CU History degree is not an easy undertaking. But it is one of the most rewarding majors on campus, with benefits that reverberate for years afterward. Our majors get jobs in business, education, medicine, marketing, and many other fields.             
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