Primary Source Newsletter Fall 2023

PRIMARY SOURCE NEWSLETTER DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENT OF OF HISTORY HISTORY FALL FALL 2023 2023

BRANDON KREYLING & AUBRY NIXON

TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. LETTER FROM THE CHAIR 2. MEET OUR NEW FACULTY - DR. RUBLE 3-4. SPRING STUDY ABROAD OPPURTINITY 5-6. UTILIZING YOUR HISTORY DEGREE BRODY GASPER 7. SPRING HISTORY CLASSES OFFERINGS 8-9. SPAIN WITH DR. ROY 10-12. SPAIN WITH SILAS BEEBE 13-14. FACULTY RESEARCH

LETTER FROM THE CHAIR Dear Students, I hope your Fall semester has brought you opportunities for learning, forging new connections, and creating new pathways for your future. The department is very proud of the work we are doing to expand your internship opportunities, help you study abroad, and find new ways to engage with your communities.

Several of our students had the chance to work at the Ketchum Community Library, the Latah County Historical Society, the Idaho State Historical Society, the Basque Cultural Center, and the Idaho Black History Museum. These internships provide vital hands-on training in archival collections, heritage organization leadership, and public event coordination. We will once again be encouraging students to apply for these opportunities this spring—please consider applying!

Whether you are headed to Hong Kong, Germany, or anywhere else in the world in the coming year, you can practice doing history. The department offers small study abroad scholarships and course credit for your studies. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to inquire about opportunities.

Thank you all for a wonderful semester. Please have a joyful winter break.

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MEET DR. RUBLE OUR NEW ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

We are excited to introduce our new assistant professor Dr. Ruble! she is a modern European historian. Her main focus and research is on modern Germany, and is currently teaching a course on anti-semitism and the Holocaust.

A little background about Dr. Ruble. She is originally from Newport News, Virginia. She received her bachelors at Christopher Newport University before going on and receiving her masters and then Ph.D at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

She is excited to be at the University of Idaho, and is currently researching about political prisoners of the Nazis in 1945 and how they incorporated themselves into west and eastern German populations. As well, she is excited to work with students!

A fun fact about Dr. Ruble is that she is an international karate competitor. As well, she has recently fallen in love with baking especially during quarantine. If you see Dr. Ruble on campus make sure to give her a warm welcome to the UofI!

STUDY ABROAD OPPORTUNITY HISTORY OF HONG KONG: SPRING BREAK 2024

Join Professor Jeff Kyong-McClain for a spring semester course focusing on the History of Hong Kong and experience Hong Kong firsthand during a spring break trip. The 3-credit course (HIST 204) begins as an 8-week class, in-person at U of I, where we learn the fascinating history of Hong Kong, from small fishing island to global center of trade and culture. Then, for 10 days during and just before Spring Break, we travel to Hong Kong to visit sites of historical, religious, and cultural significance. After Hong Kong, the group will go to Hanoi, to continue the tour and visit this historic city, as well as enjoy the scenery of Halong Bay. Depending on several factors, we might also ride the high-speed train to Guangzhou, China, to meet students at South China University of Technology and visit the ancient village of Shawan.

A quote from Professor Kyong- McClain “ These short-term, faculty-led study abroad programs, like mine and Professor Roy's are a great way to get a taste of study abroad if you can't go for a full semester or if you are a little nervous about traveling alone to a foreign country. These trips are short, so school, work, and family are not massively impacted, and there is always a guide (the teacher) nearby as well as other Idaho classmates.

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STUDY ABROAD OPPORTUNITY HISTORY OF HONG KONG: SPRING BREAK 2024

Regarding Hong Kong, it is a truly amazing global city, blending the Anglophone West and China, with a heavy portion of South Asia and even Africa influence as well. It was (maybe still is) the finance and cultural capital of the region, and will be important for the world for the foreseeable future.

And, there is awesome fried squid. Trust me, I don't like squid, but I like this!”

Important Information: All participants are required to enroll in HIST 204: Special Topics: The History of Hong Kong (Travel Course) Dates: March 7- March 14, 2024 Application Deadline: November 17, 2023 Financial Aid: There are a limited number of scholarships available from the International Programs Office, these are first come first serve, so apply ASAP! For more information about the program, please contact Dr. Jeff Kyong-McClain (jeffkm@uidaho.edu).

For more information about the application or scholarships/finances, please contact Kate Wray Chettri (kwraychettri@uidaho.edu)

UTILIZING YOUR HISTORY DEGREE - BRODY GASPER

Originally a Master’s Study, the Black History Research lab is a group of people, directed by Dr. Sydney Freeman Jr., working to highlight the history of black students and faculty on our campus. Brody Gasper and other interns have spent the past two years organizing and cataloging information from the University’s archives. They have worked closely with our library on campus and now have a database available on the library website in order to make Black History more accessible.

Gasper shared how the skills he has learned during his time with the History Department and with the Black History Research lab have helped him after graduation. Gasper recommends that if you are wanting to go into fields of research, a history degree gives you tools to be successful, extracting information and data from old articles or books, then transferring that knowledge to your own writings. Gasper went on to share some advice for graduating history department students, “Look into research opportunities, professorships, and further teaching opportunities, in order to establish yourself in the History Community.”

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Gasper worked with Dr Freeman to publish The Seminal History and Prospective Future of Blacks at the University of Idaho(2023).

SPRING HISTORY COURSES HIST101 - World History 1 HIS102 - World History 2 HIST112 - United States History 2 HIST204-History of Hong Kong (Study Abroad) HIST212 - Sex and Gender Through the Ages HIST270 - Introduction to Greek & Roman Civilization HIST290 - The Historian’s Craft HIST315 - Comparative African-American Cultures HIST404 -Chicanx History HIST446 - Ancient Rome: the republic HIST448 - The Reformation HIST454 - Pictures and Power: Photography, Politics, and American History HIST461 - Idaho and the Pacific Northwest HIST466 - Eastern Europe Since 1774 HIST495 - History Senior Seminar HIST499 - Food, History & Culture

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SPAIN WITH DR. ROY Over the past summer a group of students and Dr. Roy had the chance to travel abroad to Spain for three weeks. This was done through a class setting for HIST453 - Studying History in an International Setting. Which discussed the history of the Roman Empire.

The three week trip started in Madrid where they stayed for about 5 days before going to other cities, and she talked about how they had the oppurtunity to go on a lot of day trips.

Throughout the trip they visited Madrid, Toledo, Segovia, Sevilla, Cordoba, Granada, and even ancient ruins such as Merida, Italica, and Baelo Claudia. Dr. Roy stated that her favorite part of the trip, for herself, was the ability to participate in an exhibition in Teleka where they found things such as Ancient Roman nails in their exhibition. She says that this trip is a great way to study abroad for students who do not want to partake in a whole semester study abroad experience. As you go with your class that you have been with all semester so you are familiar with the faces, and the people! This trip to Spain will next occur most likely in 2025 where Dr. Roy says they are thinking about starting in Barcelona.

SPAIN WITH DR. ROY

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SILAS BEEBE IN SPAIN Silas Beebe a student in Dr. Roy’s HIST453 course talks about his time in Spain, and why he thinks other students should partake in a study abroad program: Spain was downright amazing. I knew when I got accepted to the trip that it would be life-changing, and boy, I was right. The experience taught me so much about myself, Spanish history, and the world. I was pushed to my limits, had the most fun month of my life, and I made some great friends on the way. I got to eat some stupidly good food and my Spanish speaking/comprehension is better than I ever could have imagined (living with a Spanish host mom will do that). I absolutely recommend to any vandal to go on any study abroad trip you get the opportunity to join, you won't regret it.

PHOTOS PHOTOS FROM FROMTTHE HE TRIP TRIP

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FACULTY FACULTY RESEARCH RESEARCH Professor Fox-Amato will publish an article titled “‘Portraits Torn to Shreds’: Iconoclasm and the Destruction of Confederate Memory” with Civil War History in December. He was also elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society.

Professor Graden was interviewed by Terrence McCoy, a Brazil correspondent of the Washington Post, for an extended essay on the transatlantic slave trade to Brazil.

Professor Gallegos Buitron has been interviewed about Chicanx History for an article in the Idaho Capital Sun Professor Kittell published an article, “What’s in a First Name?” The Correlation of Personal Identity with Economic Autonomy in Medieval Flanders,” in The Journal of Women’s History.

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FACULTY FACULTY RESEARCH RESEARCH Professor Kyong-McClain is working on an article on Chinese church published rural literacy texts in the 1930s, and co-organizing a conference on East Asian ecocinema, which will take place on campus Feb. 22-23, 2024.

Additionally, his co-edited volume From Missionary Education to Confucius Institutes: Historical Reflections on Sino-American Cultural Exchange (edited with Joseph Tse-Hei Lee) came out with Routledge this fall.

Professor Roy published an article titled “Commodifying Conquest in the Late Roman Republic: The Case of L. Licinius Lucullus” with Ancient History Bulletin.

Professor Ruble will publish her book Entangled Emancipation: Women’s Rights in Cold War Germany(Univ. of Toronto Press) in December.

Professor Scofield's second book, co-authored with Dr. Elyssa Ford, is called Slapping Leather: Queer Cowfolx at the Gay Rodeo and will be available in December 2023. Also, her coauthored verbatim play That Damn Horse: Stories of Gay Rodeo had its LA premier at the Autry Museum of the American West in November.

HAVE A GREAT WINTER BREAK!

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