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Cars stopped at Northern Ireland border in 1950.
Society & Culture
May 10, 2021 | 11:07 am

100 years on: The partition of Ireland explained

Stewart Weaver, a professor of history whose teaching interests include Great Britain, Ireland, India, exploration, and the environment, offers an explainer on the partition of Ireland, which took place a century ago.

topics: Department of History, School of Arts and Sciences, Stewart Weaver,
Illustration of woman vacuuming and child.
Voices & Opinion
April 8, 2021 | 04:56 pm

Is it time for a universal wage for housework?

In an essay in the Washington Post, history PhD student Kevin Sapere argues the pandemic has made it “all the more relevant” to compensate housework.

topics: Department of History, graduate education, School of Arts and Sciences,
Face of Frances Seward.
Society & Culture
March 11, 2021 | 03:13 pm

History project tells a more complete story of Frances Seward

Three women in the history PhD program have completed a video project showing the wife of Lincoln’s secretary of state as more influential than typically depicted.

topics: Department of History, River Campus Libraries, School of Arts and Sciences, Seward Family Archive,
Himalayas climate change environmental history
Society & Culture
March 3, 2021 | 02:20 pm

Rochester Himalayan project receives environmental history award

Work to preserve testimonies of a people and their culture is recognized as an “outstanding model of applied environmental history scholarship.”

topics: Department of History, Nancy Chin, School of Arts and Sciences, Stewart Weaver, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender Sexuality and Women's Studies, tanya bakhmetyeva,