| UD professor and Ph.D. student discuss “Legacies of Slavery and Dispossession” | UD professor and Ph.D. student discuss “Legacies of Slavery and Dispossession” | | https://www.delawarepublic.org/show/the-green/2023-05-12/the-green-may-12-2023 | | 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z | | Delaware Public Media | Dael Norwood, history, discusses “Legacies of Slavery and Dispossession”, a research project covering UD’s historical relationship to slavery, unfree labor, land dispossession and racism. | https://www.cas.udel.edu/Lists/CASintheMedia/DispForm.aspx?ID=2148 | |
| Archaeologists Unearth Buddha Statue in Ancient Egyptian Port City | Archaeologists Unearth Buddha Statue in Ancient Egyptian Port City | | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/buddha-statue-found-berenike-egypt-180982075/ | | 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z | | Smithsonian Magazine | UD historian Steven Sidebotham is co-directing a team of researchers that discovered a two-foot-tall Buddha statue in Berenike, an ancient Egyptian port city. | https://www.cas.udel.edu/Lists/CASintheMedia/DispForm.aspx?ID=2143 | |
| The Long Tenure of an Unceasing Militant | The Long Tenure of an Unceasing Militant | | https://www.kuaf.com/show/ozarks-at-large/2023-04-12/the-long-tenure-of-an-unceasing-militant | | 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z | | KUAF-FM | Allison Parker, history, was featured on NPR station KUAF. | https://www.cas.udel.edu/Lists/CASintheMedia/DispForm.aspx?ID=2134 | |
| African American Public Humanities Initiative (AAPHI) featured | African American Public Humanities Initiative (AAPHI) featured | | https://www.nhalliance.org/training_report | | 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z | | National Humanities Alliance | African American Public Humanities Initiative is a five year, cohort-based program that provides year-round training, tuition and summer stipend support for Ph.D. students in history, English and art history interested in grounding their publicly engaged scholarship in African American contexts. The program’s interdisciplinary training focuses on collections based research, material cultural studies, and digital humanities, with students gaining experience through coursework, internships, and independent projects. | https://www.cas.udel.edu/Lists/CASintheMedia/DispForm.aspx?ID=2100 | |
| Radio Broadcasting Along Mexico's Northern Border, 1930-1950 | Radio Broadcasting Along Mexico's Northern Border, 1930-1950 | | https://player.fm/series/new-books-in-science-technology-and-society-2421425/radio-broadcasting-along-mexicos-northern-border-1930-1950 | | 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z | | PLayer FM | Sonia Robles, an assistant professor of history, talks about her new book, which tells the history of radio station entrepreneurs set up along the Mexican side of the Mexico-USA border, primarily to reach laborers working in the United States. | https://www.cas.udel.edu/Lists/CASintheMedia/DispForm.aspx?ID=2118 | |
| A look back at the radical Thaddeus Stevens | Black History Keystones | A look back at the radical Thaddeus Stevens | Black History Keystones | | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/a-look-back-at-radical-thaddeus-stevens-black-history-keystones/521-41c375af-5441-46ed-bc32-b71e6fbc0295 | | 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z | | WPMT-TV-FOX43 | Christine Heyrman, early American history, lent her expertise about Thaddeus Stevens--an antislavery activist who is now getting a museum in Virginia. | https://www.cas.udel.edu/Lists/CASintheMedia/DispForm.aspx?ID=2106 | |
| Philadelphia played an important role in the development of black baseball | Philadelphia played an important role in the development of black baseball | | https://www.inquirer.com/archive/philadelphia-negro-league-stars-giants-black-history-20230110.html | | 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z | | The Philadelphia Inquirer | Neil Lanctot, American history, detailed the important role Philadelphia played in the development of Black baseball. | https://www.cas.udel.edu/Lists/CASintheMedia/DispForm.aspx?ID=2097 | |
| Greek bathhouse found in ancient Egyptian town by Red Sea | Greek bathhouse found in ancient Egyptian town by Red Sea | | https://www.livescience.com/ancient-greek-bathhouse-in-egypt | | 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z | | livescience.com | Steven Sidebotham, professor of history, co-led the excavation of 2,200-year-old bathhouse ruins dating to the second half of the third century B.C. in Berenike, Egypt, a town by the Red Sea. | https://www.cas.udel.edu/Lists/CASintheMedia/DispForm.aspx?ID=2074 | |
| John Fetterman gives us a chance to banish eugenic ideas of fitness | John Fetterman gives us a chance to banish eugenic ideas of fitness | | https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2022/11/04/john-fetterman-eugenics-stroke-fitness/ | | 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z | | The Washington Post | History professor Jaipreet Virdi wrote this opinion piece that argues our ideas about what makes someone fit are deeply rooted in eugenics, and that rethinking them could produce better policies and insights. | https://www.cas.udel.edu/Lists/CASintheMedia/DispForm.aspx?ID=2069 | |
| Why is the pumpkin associated with fall? | Why is the pumpkin associated with fall? | | https://www.foxweather.com/lifestyle/how-pumpkins-became-the-favored-gourd-of-fall | | 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z | | Fox Weather | Article quotes UD's resident pumpkin expert and history professor, Cindy Ott. "Many Americans like to imagine themselves as farmers at heart — the values it represents, that you're toiling in the soil, working in nature and hard work, and it creates a sense of independence," Ott said. | https://www.cas.udel.edu/Lists/CASintheMedia/DispForm.aspx?ID=2066 | |
