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Marquette University
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In addition to offering regular BAs, MAs, and PhDs in American and European history, the Marquette University History Department has recently begun to expand its internship program and to offer courses that feature digital humanities.
In fall 2015 the department co-sponsored an event with Marquette libraries that brought nationally known experts on digital humanities to a one-day workshop with faculty and students. A second event is being planned for fall 2016. Students in our courses on the Civil War era, modern Ireland, and Native American history produced digital projects that integrated primary sources with mapping software, textual analysis, and social media. Gray Brechin delivered our annual Klement Lecture on his digital media project, "The Living New Deal," while our 2nd Annual Phi Alpha Theta lecture featured Sarah Bond and Tom Keegan of the University of Iowa, who spoke on "Meeting Places: Maps, Manuscripts and Making Digital Humanities Collaborative."
Public history students, in collaboration with the Milwaukee County Historical Society, produced websites, videos, quizzes, and an interactive map to accompany the Society's "Brew City MKE" exhibit, while history interns helped produce a weapons exhibit at the Milwaukee Public Museum; processed documents at the Marquette University archives and a collection of campaign buttons at the MCHS; and produced a map of the Near West Side (Marquette's neighborhood) featuring all 900 businesses found in the 1923 city directory.
Additional courses will integrate digital humanities in 2016-2017, while public history students will once again collaborate with the Milwaukee County Historical Society on their spring exhibit on "Music in Milwaukee."
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University of Iowa
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Welcome to the University of Iowa History Department! We hope that you share our enthusiasm for the study of past societies and cultures. What are the origins of the world in which we live: its economy, its social and political organization, its many diverse cultures? What lessons can we learn from past societies' efforts to resolve their own challenges?
Students of history cultivate an understanding of change - how it happens and why it happens the way it does - that enables them to engage the world they inhabit. History students develop a global consciousness that helps them to navigate the streets (and the news) from Iowa City to Berlin to Nairobi. Employers value history students' ability to analyze human and social behavior, to research pressing problems, and to express themselves clearly. Graduates of the UI History department occupy prominent positions in government, education, business, journalism, law, entertainment, the medical professions, and the non-profit sector. In fact, a recent study showed that History BA's earn more than graduates in any other humanities field.
In addition to teaching, our faculty members do cutting-edge research. That research finds its way into teaching materials, books for scholarly and popular audiences, digital collections, news reporting, legal briefs, policy-making, museum exhibits, film and TV documentaries, and more. We're often called upon to advise journalists or policy makers who want to make sure they're getting their facts right - and who also want to make sure they're analyzing and contextualizing those facts correctly.
To learn more, please visit ourwebpageor visit one of our pages onFacebook!
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