Join students and faculty at the History Department poster session on Wednesday, December 12, 3:30-5 pm in the Watzek Library atrium. History majors currently enrolled in Professor Reiko Hillyer’s senior seminar will be displaying their thesis posters.

Examples of thesis titles include:
“Repeating the Mistakes of History: How Urban Combat in Hue and Fallujah Differed From the way American Soldiers Fought in Vietnam and Iraq”
“Extracting Ethics from History: The Holocaust as Moral Paradigm in United States Secondary Education”
“‘No More of that Dignity Stuff:’ The Zulu Mardi Gras Parade and the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1969”
“The Eviction of Bonus Expeditionary Force: Media Coverage and Fears of Communism in the Great Depression”
“‘Where the men are men, and the women are too’: Gender Norms for Women in the Klondike Gold Rush.”
“The Tarnished Rose: Moral Panic and Sexuality in Cold War Portland”
“The Portland Hotel: Murder, Diamond Theft, and Other Anxieties about Urban Living at the Turn of the Century.”

Swing by sometime Wednesday afternoon to see the products of this research, chat with the students about their projects, and to nibble on a donut or two.

Eleven Lewis & Clark International Affairs seniors will present posters that highlight their IA Seminar topics, on Friday May 4, from 12 to 2 pm, in the Watzek Atrium. Swing by sometime Friday afternoon to see the products of their research, chat with the students about their projects, and to nibble on a doughnut or two.

Join students and faculty at the History Department poster session on Wednesday, April 25 at 4:30 pm in the Watzek Library atrium. History majors currently enrolled in Professor David Campion’s seminar course, History 450: The Victorians, will be displaying their thesis posters.

HIST 450: Seminar: The Victorians This seminar focuses on the transformation of Britain and its empire from the coronation of Queen Victoria in 1837 to her death in 1901. Readings and discussions will provide thematic emphasis on the development of class society, urbanization, science and technology, religious and intellectual history, imperial expansion, and biographical study of key figures. The aim of the course is the completion of a major research paper. Learn more about the course here.

Sixteen Lewis & Clark seniors will present posters that highlight their history thesis topics, Wednesday, December 7, from 5 to 6 pm in the Watzek Atrium. Swing by sometime Wednesday afternoon to see the products of their research, with topics ranging from Wonder Woman comics to Black Power in Australia.

Refreshments will be provided.

Lewis & Clark History students will present posters that highlight their History 450 Seminar topics, on Wednesday, April 20, at 3-4:30 pm in the Watzek Atrium. Swing by sometime Wednesday afternoon to see the products of their research, and to nibble on a few snacks.

Fifteen Lewis & Clark History students will present posters that highlight their History 450 Seminar topics, on Wednesday, December 8, from 3 to 5 pm in the Watzek Atrium. Swing by sometime Wednesday afternoon to see the products of their research, and to nibble on a cookie or two.

(Image from a previous L&C History poster session, via the Footnotes Archive.)