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Professor John Grabowski on the closure of the Lordstown GM Plant

December 13, 2018

Professor Grabowski recently spoke with Rachel Abbey Mccafferty from "Crain's Cleveland Business" about the impact the Lordstown GM Plant had on the "ecology" of the automotive community in Cleveland and the surrounding area when it opened in the 1960's. With it's impending closure, projected to occur on March 1,...

Professor Renee Sentilles discusses predatory implications of Christmas classic “Baby It’s Cold Outside”

December 17, 2018

Professor Sentilles recently spoke with Mary Kilpatrick of cleveland.com to discuss the ways is which cultural context can shift how we interpret song lyrics, in particular, the Christmas classic "Baby It's Cold Outside." In the wake of the #MeToo movement, and ever-increasing awareness of gender-based power structures, the way...

Professor Einav Rabinovitch-Fox speaks with “On the Media.”

December 7, 2018

Professor Rabinovitch-Fox spoke with Bob Garfield of WNYC Studios' On the Media to discuss the long-standing media tradition of attempting to discredit outspoken women by obsessing over their clothes. Professor Rabinovitch-Fox spoke specifically about the recent criticism of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's "fashion choices" as an echo of similar backlash against thousands...

Exploring the History and Popularity of Cleveland’s Guardians of Traffic

October 11, 2018

John Grabowski, the Krieger-Mueller Joint Professor in History and editor of the CWRU-supported Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, spoke about the history of the twin Art Deco statues framing Cleveland's Lorain-Carnegie Bridge. "Exploring the History and Popularity of Cleveland's Guardians of Traffic. Images of the larger-than-life Art Deco statues above Cleveland’s Lorain-Carnegie Bridge...

$1 million gift from the Davee Foundation to fund history scholarships at CWRU

October 10, 2018

"Driven by a love of the printed word, the late Adeline Barry Davee graduated with a master’s degree in English from Flora Stone Mather College—just a year after earning a bachelor’s in the subject in 1931. Hired by her alma mater’s history department to assist its then-chair—Robert C. Binkley—she helped...

John Broich Lectures on C-SPAN for American History TV

August 7, 2018

Click here to watch John Broich's lecture, "How India and the Indian Army kept the Allies in the war," from his course WWII: How Britain Saved the World and Lost an Empire.

New piece by Peter Shulman and Jennifer Mendelsohn in the Washington Post, “How Social Media Spread a Historical Lie”

April 3, 2018

Click here to read the article.

Renée Sentilles upcoming lecture “Tomboys and the Blossoming of Juvenile Fiction” March 29

March 21, 2018

The lecture, sponsored by the Kelvin Smith Library, will take place Thursday, March 29, at 4 p.m. in Kelvin Smith Library, Dampeer Room. Click here to find out more information about the event.