- 07/21/2020
- UA history professor headed to semester of teaching and learning at the Sorbonne
- 05/19/2020
- Grant will fund ‘Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time’ project
- 04/15/2020
- To this group, trivia is a great pursuit!
- 04/15/2020
- Meet Pinar Odabasi Tasci: From Turkey to Akron to the Ottoman Empire
- 11/26/2019
- History is not a game. Or is it?
- 11/21/2017
- University of Akron Students Explore History in France
- 09/23/2017
- Michney to Present the 2017 Knepper Lecture in History
- 04/22/2017
- Historian Christopher Kenney Honored
- 03/06/2017
- 19th Annual Miller Humanities Lecture: Fascism Then and Now
- 02/13/2017
- Okoh Praised for Innovative African History Course
- 09/14/2016
- 2016 Knepper Lecture on History of the Black Panthers
- 04/29/2016
- Outstanding Junior and Senior History Majors Honored
- 09/11/2015
- Santos Invited to Present Research at International Conference
- 04/22/2015
- History Professor Levin Addresses Akron's Italian-American Community
- 04/08/2015
- History professors earn high honors from the Ohio Academy of History
- 01/23/2015
- History Professor's Latest Book Honored
- 12/16/2014
- Book examines one of Civil War’s most disastrous units
- 10/01/2013
- History professor named Public Policy Leadership Institute Fellow
- 09/11/2012
- History prof to lecture on Israel-Palestine Conflict
- 04/06/2012
- Wainwright is state's top history professor
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History Department Headlines
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UA history professor headed to semester of teaching and learning at the Sorbonne
Dr. Martha Santos will be an invited scholar at the Institute of Latin American Studies at the Université Sorbonne, Nouvelle-Paris this fall. -
Grant will fund ‘Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time’ project
History professor Dr. Gregory Wilson is one of the lead scholars on a new, transnational research project to understand the deep roots, experiences and long-term consequences of deindustrialization. -
To this group, trivia is a great pursuit!
Several members of the UA community are on a trivia team called “The Fellowship,” and hope the team is voted into the Trivia Hall Of Fame. -
Meet Pinar Odabasi Tasci: From Turkey to Akron to the Ottoman Empire
Pinar Odabasi Tasci is pursuing her dream — of earning a doctorate in Middle East history — through our Graduate School at The University of Akron. -
History is not a game. Or is it?
UA's Dr. Martin Wainwright authors unique textbook, using video games to teach history -
University of Akron Students Explore History in France
UA students and faculty are traveling to Le Mans, France this summer for an experiential learning program in Humanities and French history. Read what participants from the previous trips said about their time studying in Europe and find out how to apply this year!
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Michney to Present the 2017 Knepper Lecture in History
The Departments of History at the University of Akron and Kent State University welcome Prof. Todd Michney for the 2017 George W. Knepper Endowed Lecture on Monday, Oct. 2. Michney will present "Studying African Americans and Homeownership in the Long Twentieth Century: Lessons from Cleveland and Atlanta" at 5:30 p.m. in Simmons Hall Auditorium on the University of Akron campus. The lecture and following reception are free and open to the public.
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Historian Christopher Kenney Honored
The Ohio Museums Association recently honored History faculty member Christopher Kenney at its annual awards ceremony. Kenney is the Director of Education at the William McKinley Presidential Library & Museum in Canton and is the Department of History’s specialist in museums and archives education. He received the prestigious Silver Award in Visual Communications in recognition of his new book, The McKinley Years: The Life and Times of our 25th President.
