Hastings College History Department

08/18/2021

Welcome back, HC! We're ready to history you!

Stop by McCormick and say hi this week! We missed you!

07/11/2021

Did you know that Hastings College has an Archive full of historical treasures?
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Well, we do!
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And in addition to providing (yet another) secret spot on campus for historians to hide with a good book, the Archives also provide a great opportunity for our students to actually “Do History”, and gain some useful, real world, work experience digitizing, cataloguing and preserving valuable (and valuable…ish) documents and artifacts for future generations of historians!
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Special shout out and thanks to all of our historians, like the incredible Olivia Perez (pictured here!!), who have volunteered their time this summer to help get the HC archives back on track!!! ♥️
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06/18/2021

We're a bit late to the party on this one, but this kind of achievement deserves a whole summer of celebration! Rachel Schmalz '21 was recently awarded a Fulbright to study in Moldova beginning this September!

As you can see from her stack of reading material, Rachel's interest in the former Eastern Bloc runs deep! She was studying abroad in Bulgaria when Covid rudely interrupted, so we're thrilled she has another chance to continue her studies in Eastern Europe!

One of the best things about HC history students is that they tend to find themselves in all sorts of interesting places. Here's hoping we can get some account takeovers next school year so that we can live vicariously through them! 🤞

Congratulations again, Rachel, on this massive achievement!

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05/21/2021

What do historians do once grades are in? Trawl antique stores on vacation, of course! 🤓 Look at this 1914 postcard I found in Kansas City! Did you know our dear old McCormick was once a dormitory? @ River Market Antiques

Bonus historian skills test: read the cursive on the back. 😊

05/15/2021

Congratulations to the class of 2021!!! We are so proud of you! 📚📚📚❤ @ Hastings College

05/12/2021

Should you be doing end-of-block things but are instead scrolling along on Instagram? Me too.

Hearken back with me to a time free from the cares of final papers and final exams (aka last Saturday) when we enjoyed Grillmaster Avent's Amazing Pizza Oven and a great time of food and friends (possibly in that order.) A celebration of Senior Sem, Sophomore Sem, and PAT, we may have inadvertently established a new History Department tradition.

Special shout out to vaccines and nice weather, which combined to give us the kind of time together that has been far too rare in the past year!

05/07/2021

If you know one thing about historians, you know that we love a good mystical and esoteric ceremony.* Last evening, we had the delight of initiating four new members into Phi Alpha Theta, the history honorary society, via one such mystical and esoteric ceremony.

Congratulations to Megan (our first-ever math major?), Treygan, Sam, and Amani!

Phi Alpha Theta is an honorary for history students who have at least a 3.0 overall GPA, a 3.1 GPA in history classes, and who have taken at least 12 hours of history classes. Congratulations to our new members!

*We also love footnotes. @ Hastings College

04/27/2021

Tonight is the Sara Jane Gardner Lecture!

This year's event features senior Rachel Schmalz of Central City, Colorado speaking on "Stalin's Planned Murder?" Understanding the Arguments Around the Famine of 1932-1933 as Genocide and Propaganda."

Join us in French Chapel at 7:00 pm, or watch the livestream: https://stream.meet.google.com/stream/fe3ed19c-d5a9-4664-97e7-d914cc6839ab

The Sara Jane Gardner lecture is sponsored annually by the Alpha Gamma Sigma chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, the National History Honors Society.

04/03/2021

It has been a year of limited social engagement, so it was really wonderful to get Phi Alpha Theta together at the Dougherty fire pit for a s'more and story night! (And hooray for early April weather cooperating!)

02/16/2021

Stay warm out there, HC.

01/28/2021

It's cold outside, but the history takes inside are as hot as Dr. Babcock's coffee! Happy Thursday from the History and Philosophy crew!

10/14/2020

Dr. Catherine Biba will be giving a talk tomorrow (Wednesday Oct. 14th) for the Hastings College Lecture Series Student Symposium about the fight for the 19th Amendment. It will be streamed online, and will hopefully be available later. Her lecture will be held from 2:30-3:30, but there are a number of other great speakers too, so give the whole list a look! The schedule and link to the Zoom webinar can be found here:
https://www.hastings.edu/hastings-college-series-student-symposium/

And remember, the best way to honor the legacy of suffragists and so many others who have fought for (and continue fighting for) voting access is to VOTE! 🙂

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