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Spring Semester 2011

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Fall Semester 2010

Wednesday, September 1:
7:30pm at Woody's Pizza,
Trivia Night at Woody's Pizza

Saturday, September 11:
Meet at 10am under Clark B
Dr.Orsi will be filling us in on a little history as we hike.

Wednesday, September 29:
Meyer Nathan Lecture
6:00 at The LSC Room 202 / 203
Dr. Amani Whitfield will be speaking on Freedom and Slavery in Post-Revolutionary Nova Scotia

Wednesday, October 6:
7:30pm at Woody's Pizza
Trivia Night at Woody's Pizza

Wednesday, October 20:
History Jeopardy
6:00pm at C.B. and Potts
Professors vs. Grad Students vs. Undergrads

Wednesday, November 3:
7:30pm at Woody's Pizza
Trivia Night at Woody's Pizza

TBA-November
Graduate School Informational Talk with Dr. Nathan Citino

Fall Semester 2009

Wednesday, August 26:
History Club Fest. 4:00-5:00, underneath Clark B wing
Join the History Club and history faculty members for a back-to-school gathering. Have a free root beer float, learn about History Club, and meet people in the department.

Thursday, September 10:
Movie Night. 6:30, location TBA
The History Club will host a showing of "Harvard Beats Yale 29-29," a 2008 documentary about one of the greatest college football games ever played. Director Kevin Rafferty (The Atomic Cafe) interviews the players for a look at the game and the turbulent 1968 backdrop against which it was played.

Tuesday, September 29
Trivia Night. 4:00, location TBA
History Club will host a jeopardy-style game of historical trivia. Look to sign up as the date moves closer. We'll have undergraduates vs. grad. students vs. faculty competition and prizes!

 

Spring Semester 2009

Friday, February 20:
Phi Alpha Theta Membership. Applications should be submitted to Dr. Yalen by Friday, February, 20th.

Wednesday, February 25:
Primary Document Workshop. History Club will host a workshop for high school students taking AP U.S. History to discuss strategies for primary document analysis. The session will include practice for students in document analysis. CSU student are also welcome to attend. This event will take place from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in Clark A202.

Wednesday, March 25 and Thursday, March 26:
44th Annual Furniss Lecture Series. The CSU History Club is pleased to welcome Dr. Stephen J. Pyne, a professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University. Dr. Pyne stands as a central figure in the environmental history of fire. He will present three talks over two days.

March 25 at 7 p.m. in Yates 104:

"Seeking Newer Worlds: the Voyager Mission and the Third Great Age of Discovery." In 1977 two Voyager spacecraft began a Grand Tour of the outer planets; they are now pushing through the edge of the solar system. The journey may well stand as the grand gesture for what has become a Third Great Age of Discovery, which is our own, an exploration of ice, abyss, and space amid an awkward bonding with the paradoxical culture of Modernism.

March 26 at 11 a.m. in Engineering B103:
"Flame and Fortune: Making History from Fighting Fires." For a long time – 15 years – they were two worlds, a world of books and a world of flames, one in universities, the other on Grand Canyon's North Rim. They finally merged into a suite of fire histories. But can fire and historical scholarship really speak to each other, and if so, does either listen to the other?

March 26 Evening Banquet at the Lincoln Center:
"The Writing With No Name." History is a book culture; yet it doesn't teach how to write books. We encourage students to unpack prose; we don't tell them how to pack it in the first place. There are guidebooks for journalism, shelves of manuals for fiction, poetry, and screenplays, and zesty demonstrations for applying fictional techniques to nonfiction; but history mulls over historiography. Historical prose remains a writing with no name."

Fall Semester 2008

American Elections: A three-part series

Thursday, October 2: The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same: 1968 & 2008
An unpopular president. A foreign war. A protracted Democratic nomination fight. Racial tensions. A cultural divide. And a major election. Sound familiar? The time was 1968. Join the History Club for a presentation comparing 1968 and 2008.
LOCATION: Lory Student Center, Grey Rock Room
TIME: 12:30 PM

Thursday, October 16: The New Electorate: African -Americans, Latinos, and Women in Contemporary Politics
The expansion of suffrage has dramatically altered the American political landscape. These demographic groups are now critical in the ultimate result of elections. Learn about the history of their participation and what the future may hold in this year's Meyer Nathan Lecture.
LOCATION: Lory Student Center, Grey Rock Room
TIME: 7:00 PM

Wednesday, October 29: You Don't Elect the President - Find Out Why: The Electoral College
Some want it abolished; some think it's perfect; many don't understand it. The final lecture in the series will explore the history and working of the Electoral College with special focus on the 2008 election and serveral possible scenarios for its outcome.
LOCATION: Lory Student Center, Room 228
TIME: 12:00 PM

 

Spring Semester 2008

Thursday, March 13: A Conversation About Rome
Join us for an informal conversation about Roman History, where students can talk about what they know and what they wish to know about ancient Rome. The conversation will be facilitated by one of the Phi Alpha Theta's co-advisors, Dr. Judy Gaughan.
LOCATION: Clark B374
TIME: 4:00-5:00 PM

 

Friday, March 21: Primary Source Analysis
Ever wonder how Historians use primary sources to conduct their research? Ever had a professor ask you to interpret a primary source document? Ever wondered how to approach this problem? Please join the History Club for the special opportunity to practice analysis and interpretation of a primary source.
LOCATION: Clark B374
TIME: 2:00-3:00 PM

 

Thursday, March 27: Fall Semester Preview
The Course Catalog does not always tell you everything you might want to know about upcoming History Courses. Join us the week before advising week to get it directly from the horse's mouth (or, in this case, the professor's mouth). Hear professors talk about their plans for their upcoming classes.
LOCATION: Clark C361
TIME: 4:00-5:00 PM

 

Friday, April 4: Primary Source Analysis
Ever wonder how Historians use primary sources to conduct their research? Ever had a professor ask you to interpret a primary source document? Ever wondered how to approach this problem? Please join the History Club for the special opportunity to practice analysis and interpretation of a primary source.
LOCATION: Clark B374
TIME: 2:00-3:00 PM

 

Friday, April 25: An Informal Conversation about the Middle Ages
Note the room change
LOCATION: Clark B355 (if you see copy machines, you are in the right place, simply make a left turn into the "Green Room")
TIME: 2:00-3:00 PM

 

Monday, April 28: Adventures and Education in Swansea, Wales
During spring 2009, Dr. Kelly Long from the history department will serve as faculty-in-residence. Come to see views of Swansea and surroundings and to hear about the course Dr. Long will offer there: "Cold War and Hot Rock: American Culture in the 1950s and 1960s."
LOCATION: Clark A103
TIME: 5:00-6:00 PM

 

Friday, May 2: Relaxation and Politics
At our last regular meeting of the semester we will be playing games and electing officers for next years History Club. If you are interested in an officer position, or just to talk about the future of the club, please join us in our regular room at our regular time.
LOCATION: Clark B374
TIME: 2:00-3:00 PM

 

Friday, May 9: Old Chicago's Pizza
Before you hunker down and start studying for final exams, please join us for Pizza at Old Chicago's on College Ave. in Old Town.
LOCATION: Note Location Change
TIME: 5:00PM

 

Fall Semester 2007

• Tuesday, October 2:  “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
  Come watch the 1966 film of a traditional Roman-style comedy.  Taken from the pages of early third century playwright Plautus: “Flip, glib and sophisticated, yet rump-slappingly bawdy and fast-paced, Forum is a capricious look at the seamy underside of classical Rome through a 20th-century hipster's shades.” –Variety.com
  

  LOCATION Military Science 200
  TIME: 4:00-6:00 PM

 

• Monday, October 8: Furniss Planning
  LOCATION: History Lounge
  TIME: 4:00-5:00 PM

 

• Tuesday, October 16:  Representations of Imperialism, Slavery, and Women, and in Second Century B.C.E. Rome and Twentieth Century C.E. America
  LOCATION Clark B358
  TIME: 4:00-5:00 PM

 

• Monday, October 22: Furniss Fund Raising
  LOCATION: History Lounge
  TIME: 4:00-5:00 PM

 

Upcoming Events:

• Meyer Nathan Diversity Lecture
• Field Trip to Denver Museum

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