Ph.D student Francis M. Curran III was invited by the Monongalia
Historical Society to present his research
on Southern sectionalism prior to the Civil War at their quarterly dinner meeting
Friday, September 16, 2016.
“The shot John Wilkes Booth shot at Ford’s Theatre was the
first shot in the war to come after, the war on Black freedom and equality…a
war we are still fighting today,” Martha Hodes said as a striking final thought
in her lecture “Mourning Lincoln: The Assassination and the Aftermath of the
Civil War” given at WVU on September 29.
The Royce J. and Caroline B. Watts
Museum will open its new exhibit on September 20, 2016. The exhibit, “Molded in
the Mountains: The Glass Industry in West Virginia,” has been created through collaborative
efforts involving many students from the Department of History, including two
public history classes, two interns, student workers, and especially the
museum’s two full-time employees, Danielle Petrak, a current Ph.D. student in
the History Department, and Eliza Newland, who received her MA in History from
WVU in 2014.
