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Fordham University History Department: news from our historians, students, and posts related to history.

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The Jewish Book Council awarded @FordhamNYC's Prof. Magda Teter's book, Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Anti­se­mit­ic Myth Libel, the prestigious JDC-Herbert Katzki Award. jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-dai… @jewish_studies @FordhamJS @MagdaTeter. Read more: jpost.com/diaspora/jonathan-…
2020 Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award Winners

2020 Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award Winners

2020 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS ANNOUNCED

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Interested in learning about medieval marriage practices and law? Check out Wolfgang Müller's new book, 'Marriage Litigation in the Western Church'! Listen to his interview with New Books Network to hear more about it: newbooksnetwork.com/marriage…

Wolfgang P. Müller, "Marriage Litigation in the Western Church, 1215-1517" (Cambridge UP, 2021) -...

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Congratulations to @SElizabethPenry who has been awarded a Franklin Research Grant from the @AmPhilSociety! The grant will be used to support her new research project titled “The Italian Renaissance in Diaspora: Jesuit Education and Indigenous Modernities.”
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🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 Fordham History is currently welcoming applications for Assistant Professor in the history of modern South Asia. Application details in link: fordham.edu/info/28602/curre… #HistoryJobs #academicjobs #AcademicTwitter
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#HappyHeavenlyBirthday to #JamesBaldwin who was born #onthisday in 1924. The #SchomburgCenter is home to the James Baldwin Papers, which include his manuscripts, poetry, and letters. Learn more about our collection. archives.nypl.org/scm/24143?…
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In the new JAH, @NanaOseiOpare shows how #workers in postcolonial #Ghana used petitions to protest workplace abuses, corruption, and low wages — and to assert the importance of their #labor to Kwame Nkrumah's nation-building project. #laborhistory bit.ly/2PHHpMy
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Rafael Zapata, Fordham’s chief diversity officer, said he was humbled to be recognized by an organization that trains social workers to serve New York’s “complex, ever-evolving, yet consistently misunderstood Latinx community.” news.fordham.edu/colleges-an…

Fordham's Rafael Zapata Receives Leadership Award

Rafael Zapata, chief diversity officer at Fordham, was honored by the Latino Social Work Coalition (LSWC) on May 6 with their Shaping the Future 2021 Outstanding Leadership Award.  The award

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If you missed this conversation about images and dangerous rhetoric @GettyMuseum with @FordhamNYC @FordhamHistory Magda Teter, @sliptonmedieval, @benkatchor and @BlakeGopnik you can watch it now: youtu.be/TABn_ooiBTA
Dangerous Rhetoric: Blood Libel in the Middle Ages and Today

Dangerous Rhetoric: Blood Libel in the Middle Ages and Today

A manuscript in the collection of the Getty Museum contains the onl...

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Asif Siddiqi is @FordhamHistory professor & the writer of several space books. He said it might be necessary to retire the term once hundreds if not thousands of people reach space. “Are we going to call each and every one of them astronauts?”learningenglish.voanews.com/… via @VOANews
Who Is an Astronaut?

Who Is an Astronaut?

As private spaceflight becomes more common and companies sell chances to go into space some wonder: Who gets to call themselves an astronaut?

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"The 'working class' in NYC is no longer white- it consists of immigrants from all over the globe... This to whom Eric Adams is appealing. It is a winning formula when the majority of Black New Yorkers now come from West Africa & the West Indies." - @FordhamHistory's @McFiredogg
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Rejecting "postcolonial African archival pessimism," @NanaOseiOpare examines workers' petitions and letters of complaint, found in #Ghana's local archives, to "reclaim the voices of nonelite Africans in relation to their employers and the state." bit.ly/2PHHpMy
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Panel 2) Beyond the Pale @historians_ie chair Steven Ellis @historyatgalway Neil Murphy @NorthumbriaUni Chris Maginn @FordhamHistory @3Historians #33ICH
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Nana Osei-Opare@NanaOseiOpare13 May 2021
I am so excited to read, engage w/, & assign pieces of CSSAAME's new issue, 'the Africa-Soviet Modern.' Brilliant scholars such as my colleague @historyasif & others, Betty Banks, @DavignonRobyn, Andrew Ivaska, Steffi Marung, are featured. read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/… #AfricaSoviet
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"The Problem of Difference: Corporate Histories from the Global South" by Mircea Raianu (Univ. of Maryland). Please join us for our last talk this year from O'Connell Initiative for the Global History of Capitalism, May 4th, 5:30: fordham.zoom.us/meeting/regi… teapawt.org/historyasif/status/138…
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A great book to read abt this: “Feminism’s Forgotten Fight” by @kswinth, who teaches at @FordhamHistory: news.fordham.edu/inside-ford… – at Brooklyn, NY

New Book by History Professor Recasts Second-Wave Feminism

Kirsten Swinth's new book examines misperceptions of feminism's past.

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something I didn't know until I went to law school(!!!!!!!) was that universal daycare was a popular — sometimes mainstream — feminist demand in the 1960s and 1970s. for all we talk about women empowerment, the arc of history, and so on, there was a giant leap back in the culture
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The latest by @FordhamHistory's Saul Cornell: "What is the scope of the Second Amendment right to bear arms outside of the home?" slate.com/news-and-politics/… via @Slate

Barrett and Gorsuch Have to Choose Between Originalism and Gun Rights

Justices Gorsuch and Barrett have staked their reputations on a commitment to apply originalist methods in a neutral manner. Will they follow through?

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Congratulations! @FordhamUniversity's PhD candidate Glauco Schettini (@GlaucoSchettini) receives the Farrar Memorial Award of the Society for French Historical Studies (@thesfhs)
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The University will require all students to be vaccinated by the opening of the fall semester, and the University expects that all faculty, staff, and administrators likewise be fully vaccinated on or before the beginning of the fall semester. Read more: news.fordham.edu/uncategoriz…
University COVID-19 Vaccination Policy

University COVID-19 Vaccination Policy

From the Office of the President: Dear Members of the Fordham Community: This has been a difficult year for the campus community, and for our families. Many of us have

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Coming up @GettyMuseum: Our own Magda Teter of @FordhamHistory @FordhamJS @FordhamNYC with @sliptonmedieval of @stonybrooku, @benkatchor and @BlakeGopnik will discuss "Dangerous Rhetoric: Blood Libel in the Middle Ages and Today" getty.edu/visit/cal/events/e…
Dangerous Rhetoric: Blood Libel in the Middle Ages and Today | Getty

Dangerous Rhetoric: Blood Libel in the Middle Ages and Today | Getty

A manuscript in the collection of the Getty Museum contains the only image of Little Robert of Bury to survive from the Middle Ages. Promoted as a Christian martyr murdered by Jews, the story of...

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For #CosmonauticsDay, @historyasif curated & annotated declassified documents about Yuri Gagarin, the 1st Soviet cosmonaut to travel to #space! @CWIHP READ more ⤵️ wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/d…
Declassified Sources on Gagarin

Declassified Sources on Gagarin

Documents selected, curated, and annotated by Asif Siddiqi comprise new Digital Archive collection on Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut who became the first human to travel into space on April 12,...

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