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Carla Hayden and Kaitlin Dotson

Public History students begin internships in DC this summer

The history department’s Public History in Washington D.C. summer internship program is in its second year of providing public history courses and course credit for our students holding prestigious and highly competitive internship position at historic and cultural institutions in Washington.


Stephen Mihm: This Isn't the First U.S. Opiate-Addiction Crisis

Stephen Mihm's column on Bloomberg View this week brings us "This Isn't the First U.S. Opiate-Addiction Crisis: Doctors overprescribed painkillers in the 19th century.


Stephen Mihm: How Summer Vacation Took Hold in the U.S.

A new article on Bloomberg View online this week by Stephen Mihm relates how summer vacations bacame 'a thing' in the U.S.


Keri Leigh Merritt: Let the Historians Speak

History alum Keri Leigh Merritt's opinion letter "Let the Historians Speak", appeared in the New York Times July 14.


Confederates in Concrete are on the Move

Emeritus Professor of History James Cobb gives his own informed, expert and usually irreverent take on the current controversies about confederate iconography, presenting some historical perspective, on his blog Cobbloviate.