[Ohiogift] National History Club News - late May 2019

[Art Snyder]

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| National Vietnam War Museum |
|   |     On December 9, 2017, The National Vietnam War Museum officially broke ground on Phase One of its permanent building. The exterior of the building is now complete, and the museum is in the process of raising the funds to complete the interior. The approximately 20,000 square foot, two story building will house the first three exhibit galleries, gift shop, art gallery, library, offices, and a multi-purpose room that will serve as a theater, lecture hall, and banquet room. The three exhibit galleries will feature an introduction to the Vietnam War and Vietnam Era; The Home Front, with a replica of the Oval Office as its centerpiece; and a Fort Wolters/Camp Wolters gallery, showcasing the role of the helicopter pilots in the Vietnam War.   In addition, the museum also has a series of gardens and outside exhibits, most notably its one half scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, with a computer kiosk which allows visitors to locate names on the wall.   The mission of the museum is to promote an understanding of the Vietnam Era and honor the men and women who served in the Vietnam War. To further that mission, in addition to a museum, we have also produced a booklet about the Vietnam War and the Vietnam Era for use by students and teachers as a basis for discussion.    |
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| Marquette University |
|   |     During the 2018-2019 academic year, the History Department at Marquette University has undertaken several initiatives that contribute to the university's new core curriculum and enhance its diversity offerings. A number of faculty have developed courses for the "Engaging Social Systems and Values" requirement, on topics such as "Citizenship and Belonging in America," "Africa and the West," and "The Athenian Experiment." Sergio González, our new colleague, has developed an "Introduction to Latinx Studies," while Rob Smith, in his second year at Marquette, taught a seminar on the Long Civil Rights Movement.   The department is also participating in this year's Marquette Forum on "Democracy in Troubled Times" in two ways.  The Department's blog, "Historians at Work," is featuring crucial moments in history where democratic values and institutions prevailed or were threatened.  So far, we have explored the 1924 League of Nations' Declaration of the Rights of the Child, the massacre at the Squirrel Hill synagogue in Pittsburgh, and American colonists riots during the Glorious Revolution. The department will also hold a "teach-in" in March; students in every history course will take a few moments (or perhaps an entire period) to discuss iconic documents in the history of American democracy.    |
|   | Visit the Marquette History Department! |
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| Vanderbilt University |
|   |     History has been an integral part of the undergraduate and graduate curriculum at Vanderbilt since the University was founded, in 1873. The first undergraduate students of the discipline immersed themselves in subjects as various as the Roman Empire, English constitutional history, the history of religion (including Islam), political economy, and contemporary American politics. Graduate study came early -- in the 1880s -- to Vanderbilt. Taught in weekly seminars, a new instructional form, students were expected to master the standard texts, while the more advanced among them engaged in innovative research on such issues as the Civil War, local government in the South and Southwest, and the tariff, Henry George and socialism. Vanderbilt's first PhD in history was awarded in 1899, one of only three awarded in the South before 1900.   Today, the Department of History's 40 full-time faculty members offer courses that span the globe -- from Africa and Asia to Europe, Latin America and the United States -- and that introduce students to a range of historical questions and methodologies. The undergraduate program attracts over 150 majors, and the graduate program annually enrolls 8-9 students in a variety of fields, for a total of about 55 at any given time. Department faculty are at once devoted and skilled teachers on the one hand and innovative and accomplished researchers and writers of history on the other.    |
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