IUP History Department

03/04/2024

Come and here Kara French on March 25

11/19/2023

160 years ago today

“It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

10/10/2023

Sad news

Dr. Royce E. Walters, 85, of Indiana, passed away Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023, at Bethany Place in Indiana.

09/07/2023

Last semester's puzzle took all semester. This semester we finished one in a day. Come by the department and help pick out the next one.

08/29/2023

History Happy Hour will be each Wednesday 11:00-1:30 in the department. Come have snacks, meet people, and chat with your fellow students.

07/08/2023

The studio says the line was a “child-like” drawing not intended to make any kind of political statement.

07/08/2023

Even Barbie has to pay attention to history.

The studio says the line was a “child-like” drawing not intended to make any kind of political statement.

07/01/2023

That doughy disc with delectable toppings seen in a 2,000-year-old painting is not a pizza, experts insist. But can we get one delivered anyway?

01/16/2023

King the radical and how people use history.

Home / General / Today in Teddy Bear Martin Luther KingToday in Teddy Bear Martin Luther King Comments By Scott Lemieux / On January 15, 2023 / At 10:39 pm / In General 422 Views A particularly egregious example of “Martin Luther King was a public figure whose career consisted of one speech that w...

12/15/2022

Our alumna Gina Anne Tam discussing Covid in China on S. Korean television.

Zoom & Skype Connection① : PARK Sang-min, Vice President / Korean Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai② : Gina Anne Tam, Associate Professor of History / Trinity ...

12/06/2022

Ambivalence about the date is down to the Civil War and Partition

11/29/2022

This is a reconstruction of what the antique Forum of Nerva in Rome would have looked like in the 10th century.
The population of Rome at the time was maybe 30,000 souls living in the ruins of what had been a city of more than a million people. Rome was terribly unhealthy with malaria and other diseases being rampant during the summer months.
The early German emperors tried to avoid going to Rome during the summer so that most coronations took place in the winter with Christmas the preferred date as Charlemagne had been crowned on Christmas day 800. In 1167 Barbarossa's enormous army falls prey to dysentery a calamity the empire will never recover from.
Apart from health risks, the locals were anything but friendly. One of the famous episodes is when emperor Otto III tried to establish Rome as the capital of a renewed Western Roman Empire. Suffice to say he barely made it out alive.
More on that story in the History of the Germans Podcast Episode 14 - Otto III The End of a Dream available on Apple Podcasts and wherever you get your podcasts from. Here is the direct Spitify link:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2QSMuLHy3az8DPswcy3cH4?si=y41xoFIVRXyJgBnZQO0ElQ)

Image: Fori Impriale Info