“Unity Week aims to challenge perspectives on matters of diversity, inclusivity, and solidarity in an evolving social climate.” Since 1980, it’s done just that. For 40 years, Unity Week has remained dedicated to unifying the Ball State community through enlightening social, cultural, and educational events. To celebrate this momentous anniversary, we delved into the Digital […]
Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday established to commemorate the civil rights activist Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was assassinated in 1968. This was the first national holiday focused on an African American. Though the federal holiday was established in 1986, it was not recognized by every state until […]
What can you do with a humanities degree? Almost anything. And the Stars to Steer By lecture series will show you how. The popular series (a partnership between the College of Sciences and Humanities Dean’s office and the Ball State Career Center) returns in Spring 2020–with a few changes. What’s New about Stars to Steer […]
Heather McBride Scheurer is a Ph.D. candidate in public history at Middle Tennessee State University with a research agenda focused on wartime collections and museum interpretation. She has presented at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association and led a class in the creation of a board game on Gilded Age New York City. […]
Daniel Gonzales earned his B.S. in Secondary Education from Ball State University in 2007 and his M.A. in Museum Studies from the University of Missouri-Saint Louis in the spring of 2010 as an E. Desmond Lee Fellow. Following graduation he began work as a researcher at the Missouri History Museum. In 2013, Daniel took on […]
by Sarah Dalton Andrew Luce is a Ball State alum who double majored in History (Public History concentration) and Political Science. He also graduated from the Honors College program. Can you provide a brief description of your current position as a donor relations officer? My role as a Donor Relations Officer with Ann & Robert […]
Prof. Shiau-Yun Chen received her Ph.D. from Cornell in 2019 and recently published “Jealous and Violent: Constraining and Celebrating Wifely Jealousy in Mid-to-late Ming China” in Ming Studies (volume 79, 2019). Her focus is inter-relationships of law, culture, family authority and family violence in Ming China, with a special focus on wives and concubines. […]
Dear Faculty, Student and Alumni Colleagues, Halfway into the fall semester I must reflect on the fact that in a world of limited space and resources filled with 7.7 billion people, and subject to constant natural and cultural changes, we all need to “run very fast” and adapt in order to survive. It is also […]
The Department of History’s Annual Student History Conference is one of it’s most important events. History students are encouraged to share research in the form of papers, teaching units, and multimedia presentations prepared for history courses with interested students and faculty. The 22nd annual Student History Conference was on Friday, February 22nd. In addition to research […]
History majors study turn-of-the-century Muncie veterans, prostitution, and saloons The Middletown Projects are the culmination of HIST 200: Introduction to History and Historical Methods. They build on Felsenstein and Connolly’s What Middletown Read by using materials from Ball State University’s Archives and Special Collections. These projects reveal the foundational disciplinary skills used by historians, and […]