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 The Department of History is delighted to send a shout out to members of our Undergraduate Student Advisory Council and other history students who organized a wildly successful participatory event earlier this semester as part of the Department’s continuing commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.   For the last two days in September, history students invited passersby on the MACC Plaza to sign their names to a giant replica of the Declaration.  Participants also had the opportunity to answer fun trivia questions about the document and lar...

The Department of History is extremely pleased to announce the establishment of the Beer Research Award, named in honor of the late Barrett L. Beer, our long-time departmental colleague and specialist in the history of Tudor England.  After completing his Ph.D. at Northwestern University, Barry taught at the University of New Mexico before moving to �Ը�������, where he served as a faculty member for thirty-eight years.  In addition to his work as a dedicated but demanding classroom teacher, Barry was also a prolific researcher whose publications include Rebellion and Riot: Popular D...