College of Arts and Sciences

Amanda Mahoney, chief curator of the Dittrick Medical History Center at the College of Arts and Sciences, partnered with the team behind the university's Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, to help tell the story of Cuyahoga County’s best-in-U.S. record in vaccinating residents against polio in the early 1960s. Read more...

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Jonathan Sadowsky spoke to Psychology Today about the history of depression—a malady that has gone by many names throughout human history—and the modern approach to identifying and treating the condition. Read his interview here.

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Peter Shulman, associate professor of history at the College of Arts and Sciences, discussed the invocation of the Defense Production Act as part of President Joe Biden’s strategy to combat the spread of the coronavirus that has killed more than 400,000 Americans. Watch the interview with Professor Shulman here.

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Jonathan Sadowsky, the Theodore J. Castele Professor in the Department of History at the College of Arts and Sciences, discussed his new book, The Empire of Depression: A New History, which explores how different societies throughout history have interpreted what we refer to now as "depression" and what can be...

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Listen to Jonathan Sadowsky discuss his book, The Empire of Depression: A New History, on the New Books Network Podcast. When is sorrow sickness? That is the question that this book asks, exploring how our understandings of sadness, melancholy, depression, mania and anxiety have changed over time, and how societies have...

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Einav Rabinovitch-Fox, a visiting assistant professor of history, contributed her expertise in a story about how Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has used her fashion style to amplify her political views and empower the next generation of leaders. "The cape jacket for the State of the Union address was sort...

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Jonathan Sadowsky, Theodore J. Castele Professor in the Department of History at the College of Arts and Sciences, discussed his new book, The Empire of Depression: A New History, which explores how different societies throughout history have interpreted what we refer to now as "depression" and what can be...

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Vanguard: African American Women and the Road from Suffrage to Voting Rights by Martha S. Jones, PhD, Johns Hopkins University October 22, 2020 Presented as the Carl W. Ubbelohde Lecture in partnership with the CWRU History Associates and the Department of History https://youtu.be/5oOw4uHhklY

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CWRU historian Gillian Weiss, NYU art historian Meredith Martin, and graphic designer Bonnie Siegler have published "Trump: Superhero or Superspreader?" for History News Network. The authors compare the similar practices of "shameless self-promotion" shared by the President and the French King Louis XIV, and offer a satirical presidential medal...

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Peter Shulman, associate professor of history in the College of Arts and Sciences and the author of Coal and Empire, discussed how President Donald Trump was focused as much on coal as a convenient symbol as he was the fate of the industry. Read the full article here.

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