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Messiah University History Department

‘Tis the Season!

John Fea   |  December 4, 2021

Messiah University may no longer have a history department, but our history majors are doing their best to hold on to the department’s time-honored traditions. This weekend the History Club did some Christmas caroling at faculty homes (History and Politics...

Messiah University’s Digital Harrisburg Initiative wins the Leadership in History Award from the American Association for State and Local History

John Fea   |  July 12, 2021

I occasionally write about Messiah’s Digital Harrisburg Initiative (DHI). My colleague David Pettegrew and his team do an amazing job of serving our local community through public and digital history. I am thrilled to see that the American Association for...

Quick thoughts on the end of the Messiah University History Department

John Fea   |  May 6, 2021

Yesterday I sat through what will probably be the last history department faculty meeting of my career. It was on ZOOM. Next Fall the history professors, five in all, will join three political science professors to form the Messiah University...

Historian Megan Jones on teaching environmental history at The Pingry School

John Fea   |  April 1, 2021

Over at NiCHE (Network in Canadian History & Environment), Megan Jones, the chair of the history department at The Pingry School in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, writes about her experience teaching environmental history. Megan is a 2003 graduate of Messiah...

Out of the Zoo: National History Day, During a Pandemic

Annie Thorn   |  March 24, 2021

Annie Thorn is senior history major from Kalamazoo, Michigan and our intern here at The Way of Improvement Leads Home.  As part of her internship she is writing a weekly column titled “Out of the Zoo.” It focuses on life as a...

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