The National Endowment for the Humanities recently released a list of recipients of the American Rescue Plan: Strengthening Institutions Grant. These funds were intended to help universities and cultural institutions recover from the financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and also to strengthen programs that recognize or serve underserved communities. Through the auspices of the […]
In Fall 2019, students in Dr. Patti Loughlin’s Women in the American West course helped conduct research for several special exhibitions including two currently at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. As Dr. Loughlin stated, “We are so proud of these graduate and undergraduate students and their collaborative, engaged work with curators.”
The University of Central Oklahoma is hosting a new popup exhibition from the National Archives, Rightfully Hers, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment. Rightfully Hers contains simple messages exploring the history of the ratification of the 19th amendment, women’s voting rights before and after the 19th, and its impact today. Despite decades of marches, petitions, […]
Department of History & Geography faculty continued the tradition of offering exciting research and study opportunities abroad in summer 2019. Students had several options to choose from this year. Dr. Jessica Sheetz-Nguyen taught Applied Research in London, a course in which students travel to London for 10 to 21 days and work on various cutting-edge […]
The University of Central Oklahoma is the oldest institution of higher learning in Oklahoma dating back to Dec. 24, 1890, when the Territorial Legislature voted to establish the Territorial Normal School. The Territorial Legislature located the new school in Edmond, provided certain conditions were met. First, Oklahoma County had to donate $5,000 in bonds, and […]
Dr. Andrew Magnusson published a chapter on “Zoroastrian Fire Temples and the Islamization of Sacred Space in Early Islamic Iran,” in the volume Islamisation: Comparative Perspectives from History, edited by A.C.S. Peacock (Edinburgh University Press, 2016). Dr. Katrina Lacher published “Where’s the Beef . . . From: Boycotting Burger King to Protect Central American Rainforests,” […]
Between July 16 and 30, 2017, five faculty members from the College of Liberal Arts attended an interdisciplinary faculty work shop sponsored by the Undergraduate International Studies Foreign Language (UISFL) program funded by the Department of Education at the East West Center on the campus of the University of Hawaii-Manoa. Dr. Peter Hershock, director of […]
UCO Laboratory of History Museum Timeline In 1915, history professor Lucy J. Hampton founded the Central State Normal Historical Society. The purpose of the society was to “…collect, arrange, and preserve historical material…illustrative of and relating to the history of Oklahoma…” The museum was called the Laboratory of Original Evidence. It was first housed in […]
