The Council for European Studies (CES) Book Award Committee has awarded Udi Greenberg The Weimar Century the 2016 European Studies Book Award.

Lately, in the heated call for greater STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) education at every level, the traditional liberal arts have been needlessly, indeed recklessly, portrayed as the villain. And STEM fields have been (falsely) portrayed as the very opposite of the liberal arts.

President Emeritus James Wright is an on-camera contributor and narrator for the new Ric Burns documentary.

To students interested in applying for the History FSP to London in Fall 2016 (next year): Applications for the FSP are due on February 1, 2016.

"By releasing students from the pressure of the practical major and allowing them to study what they are sincerely interested in, we allow them to become smarter, more creative, and more able" says Professor Cecilia Gaposchkin in the May 22, 2015 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education, "Opinion & Ideas."

The Dartmouth Vietnam Project (DVP), launched in summer 2014 and sponsored by the History Department, is an experiential learning program that provides a group of Dartmouth students the chance to get hands-on practice in this exciting field of historical research.

The Department of History held a poster session and reception to celebrate its Honors thesis students and all who have supported them in their work (from left to right: Ellen Nye, Diandra Wong, Maria Fernandez, Louis Wheatley, Andrew Shanahan, George Helding and John Descalzi).

At This Point in History is a collaborative blog effort by members of Dartmouth’s history department.

Edward Miller, an associate professor of history, says most American histories of the Vietnam War omit a crucial element, the Vietnamese themselves, the Valley News writes.