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Spring 2013 Semester

Welcome to the Spring 2013 semester! I hope you will take this opportunity to visit the departmental website, where you will find not only the usual sorts of information about the major, the faculty, etc., but all sorts of useful … Continue reading

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History 4800, Theory and Methods of History: Recommended for Juniors and Seniors!

Thinking about Senior Thesis-History-4990?  Wish there was a way to make the most important writing project of your Undergraduate careerless daunting and more Manageable? History-4800 *Hist-4800 is offered Tuesday 10:50AM – 1:30PM, fall semester 2012* is just what you need … Continue reading

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Welcome Back!

Paul Harvey Welcome back to the 2012-13 school year! All of you who are history majors at UCCS will be getting a “welcome” letter from me (Paul Harvey, Chair of the History Department), but I wanted to supplement that letter … Continue reading

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From Civil War to Civil Rights

Paul Harvey And while we’re on the topic of the Civil War and History 4530, one more nice piece of  reading: Ari Kelman, “From Civil War to Civil Rights,” a review of four books on the Civil War and its memory … Continue reading

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Newfangled Weaponry and OldFashioned Civil War: The Civil War Disunion Blog

Paul Harvey Students this semester in History 4530, The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1840-1890, will soon be experimenting with writing blog posts on specific topics related to the Civil War, some of which will be posted here. In the meantime, for … Continue reading

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Spring Courses Still Available

For you undergraduates looking for spring courses, there are plenty with seats still available, on all manner of topics from the Ancient World to the present. Here are a few that might get your attention: History 1000, “Introduction to Historical … Continue reading

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An Interview with Historian of Religion Paul Harvey

UCCS Department Member Paul Harvey is featured this month in an interview published in HISTORICALLY SPEAKING, a journal of The Historical Society, one of the major national historical organizations. While the full interview is not available online, you can find … Continue reading

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Senior Thesis Schedule: Spread the Word

Students often wonder about how to plan for their senior thesis. The answer is simple: find out who is teaching the Senior Thesis, and plan for when you can take the thesis with the professor who is teaching your topic … Continue reading

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Medieval History at UCCS

Some of you have had a chance already to take courses with our new Professor of Medieval European History, Roger L. Martinez. Currently he’s teaching two different sections of our graduate-level M.A. readings seminar in Medieval European history, where students … Continue reading

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Christina leads New Graduate Seminar

Christina Jimenez, who specializes in Mexican and Latin American history, is leading a new graduate seminar sequence starting this fall on The City and Citizenship in the modern world. The course will feature many members of the department visiting to … Continue reading

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