Get to know ODU's History Bachelor of Arts Alumna, Amber Kates who is continuing her focus on the Tidewater region.
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Students shared their study abroad experiences with the ODU community. Students Karis Adam, Erin Arsenault, Ben Baumann, Rane Fox, Robert Suchyta, Jen Suarez, Matthew Ward and Ethan Weber discussed their time in France and Poland.
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Former History student Robert Kelly has been named to the ODU Alumni Association’s “40 Under 40” Class of 2023. Kelly currently serves as the Gloucester County Museums Coordinator and Gloucester Parks, Recreation & Tourism President.
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Rasheem Moye ’14 is a high school teacher of Virginia and US History at Booker T. Washington High School in Norfolk, and in 2022 was named Teacher of the Year for the high school.
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The association is the flagship organization for maritime historians across the world.
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Will Giandoni ’02, who credits his studies with giving him critical thinking skills, has created seven scholarships at the University.
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The ambassador in residence at ODU will serve a two-year term.
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The event pairs four Hampton Roads residents with songwriters to turn their life stories into songs.
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Gender, Engineering & Solutions, a Women’s History Month event, focused on the intersection of gender and engineering.
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Alicia Pullen will assist in facilitating communication with Gov. Northam, processing requests for commemorative documents and managing protocol-related questions.
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Annette Finley-Croswhite will discuss her latest book, “Assassination in Vichy: Marx Dormoy and the Struggle for the Soul of France,” on Nov. 18 at Smartmouth Brewing Co.
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He was known as the ‘unofficial mayor’ of Colonial Place, where he pushed for integration in the sixties and seventies.
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“Assessing the Verdict of Minnesota v. Chauvin: A Collective Discussion of the Broader Implications” is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. April 27.
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The Zoom event, which will focus on the rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines, is scheduled for March 19 at noon.
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Noah Fort, a junior majoring in history at Old Dominion University, wrote an op-ed for The Virginian-Pilot
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Annette Finley-Croswhite writes about Dr. Alfred Münzer, a Holocaust survivor who spoke at ODU in 2019, and his two sisters, who were killed at an extermination camp.
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Annette Finley-Croswhite, director of the Center for Faculty Development and university professor in the Department of History, is pleased to announce the publication of her new book, Assassination in Vichy: Marx Dormoy and the Struggle for the Soul of France, co-authored with Gayle K. Brunelle and published by the University of Toronto Press.
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The curated collection encompasses topics such as mass incarceration, social movements, African American history and contemporary race issues.
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Ingo Heidbrink is part of a team looking at the 19th century cholera crisis in Germany that was fueled by the ice trade.
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Marker noting Quarantine Road used during 1855 yellow fever epidemic is located behind Webb Center.
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12 Monarchs received commissions, along with students from Norfolk State, Hampton and Regent universities.
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On a lighter note, Ingo Heidbrink says the depiction of industry in “Frozen” is historically accurate.
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Timothy Orr co-wrote a book about “Dusty” Kleiss, one of the pivotal pilots in the battle.
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Stephen Davis spent the summer of 2019 as an Exhibits and Curatorial Intern at the Virginia Beach Surf & Rescue Museum.
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Weiss's book, "The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote," has been optioned by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Television with Hillary Rodham Clinton as exectuive producer.
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Alicia Pullen, Undergraduate Student, was a participant of the Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars.
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"Sissi's World" examines the life and legacy of Habsburg Empress Elisabeth of Austria, one of the most popular women in European history.
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Richard “Dick” Rutyna, an Old Dominion University Associate Professor Emeritus of history died March 17 at the age of 80.
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World War II dive-bomber pilot Dusty Kleiss never considered himself heroic. But his actions during the Battle of Midway, which are chronicled in his memoir, "Never Call Me a Hero," certainly qualify.
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David Alan Harris, a former Professor Emeritus for the Department of History, died April 7 at the age of 87.
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Graduate student Maggie Kontra-Emmens and her research team decided to take a different approach for Old Dominion University’s 7th annual Graduate Research Achievement Day (GRAD) by doing a digital presentation about American soldiers who were part of the 42nd Rainbow Division during World War I.
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A cookout will be held to honor volunteer efforts of the Old Dominion community in celebration of the University's 85th birthday.
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The book “McClure’s Magazine and the Muckrakers,” written in 1970 by Harold Wilson, former chair of Old Dominion’s Department of History, has been re-issued in paperback by Princeton University Press.
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A self-professed “museum nerd” her entire life, Jessica Ritchie, Old Dominion’s new head of special collections and university archives, is hoping to spread the gospel that the University’s history is cool.
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Annette Finley-Croswhite, an award-winning Old Dominion University history professor who specializes in European history, including religious violence, will speak April 9, in an event presented by Friends of the Old Dominion University Libraries.
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Old Dominion University's Department of History will commemorate the 100th anniversary of World War I with a lecture by Michael Neiberg, U.S. Army War College professor of history in the department of national security and strategy.
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Old Dominion University Libraries’ Bill Edwards-Bodmer will discuss an episode in local history in which two World War I German ships and their crews became celebrities at the Norfolk Navy Yard.
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