Muhlenberg History

Welcome back! The History Department welcomed the incoming class and majors and minors with an informal meet and greet on campus. It was nice to see new and familiar faces and get to know our new students. Wishing you all a great semester!

The History faculty in their wizard robes — must be a new semester! Welcome back, Mules!

Check it out! Tenure and promotion for Dr. D of the History Department 🎉🍾

Do you like movies? Do you like history? Of course you do! This Sunday, join a Twitter watch party of Thelma and Louise with our own Dr. Antonovich! Don't know what #HATM is (Historians at the Movies)? Find out here: historiansatthemovies.com/about

The latest issue of Teaching History: A Journal of Methods, features an interview with our own Dr. Antonovich on using un-essays in the classroom!

Visit William! He's in the office most days on the third floor of Ettinger in the History suite. If you ask our admin or nearby faculty nicely, you can even take a selfie with him. He's a total ham.

“Every professor I’ve worked with at Muhlenberg—all of my history professors, the art professors, every professor I’ve worked with—has been great.” This summer, Yuyang (Hector) Chen ’23 leveraged his coursework as an intern with the Allentown Art Museum. bit.ly/3sgAmuu

What can you do with a history degree? Hector Chen '23 is using his major in history and minor in studio art to do amazing things.

The #bookbeetlepress made its debut yesterday for Dr. Yankaskas’s senior seminar. The 36pt Garamont we used was a lot better than the tiny type from the 18th-c. newspapers! @berghistory @Muhlenberg @rarebookschool #letterpress #experientiallearning #bookhistory #langfellowship

This week in Dr. Antonovich's History of the American West class, students are playing the classic home computer game, Oregon Trail, and thinking about how AmWest history is taught and consumed in pop culture.

Do you –like @lizzo– love flutes and history? Then find out what else Tang emperor Xuanzong got up to, besides playing flute with Consort Yang! Join @greg_jenner, @EvelynMok, and our own Dr. D'Haeseleer @tinebeest to learn all about the Tang Dynasty. 1/2 bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09…

Podcast from 2021, @BBCRadio4 radio edit was broadcast last Saturday, but the podcast version has (literally) all the good bits still attached to it and is available 24/7. 2/2 bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09…

Today in Dr. Antonovich's Birds & Bees class, archivists from @ducomarchives came to visit. Students examined primary documents from the Woman’s Medical College of PA & then got to look at different versions of Dr. Barbie from the 1980s to the present. Material culture ftw!

New meme drop

Dr. Antonovich will be part of the upcoming Kutztown University panel discussion on the Dobbs decision next Wednesday at 4:30.

Met up with last year’s History research assistants for lunch and introduced them to some almost-100 y.o. “secret” observers on the Trumbower Building. @berghistory @Muhlenberg #gargoyles #grotesques #campusarchitecture #collegearchives