The presidential oath was intended to be a measure of accountability.
Kevin Butterfield, alumni of the Department of History at Wash U, is director of the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress.
Richard J. Walter, a professor emeritus and former chair of the Department of History in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, died Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024, at Mercy Hospital St. Louis. He was 85.
Steve Hindle was awarded the Joan Thirsk Memorial Prize for his book “The Social Topography of a Rural Community: Scenes of Labouring Life in Seventeenth-Century England.” Sponsored by the British Agricultural History Society, the Thirsk Prize is given annually for the best book in British or Irish rural or agrarian history.
On season two of "Ancient China From Above," Douglas Flowe adventures through museums, archaeological sites, and mountain ranges to solve ancient Chinese mysteries. The work is part of Flowe’s wider efforts as a public historian.