Launching Past in Present
Welcome to Past in Present, the Seton Hall University Department of History blog. The Department will be using this space to publicize events, post announcements, and, most of all, to provide its...
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History and the Game of Thrones
History and the Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire By Williamjames Hoffer, Professor of History, Seton Hall University The television show “Game of Thrones” (GoT) and the books upon which it is...
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Owen Chadwick Remembered
Owen Chadwick Remembered by Dermot Quinn, Professor of History When the church historian Owen Chadwick died earlier this year at the age of 99, still writing almost to the end, still with ideas to...
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Does Wikipedia Tell the Truth?
Does Wikipedia Tell the Truth? Nathaniel Knight, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of History, Seton Hall University. Those of us who have been teaching for a while will no doubt remember the...
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Paul Robeson’s Tragic Love of Russia by Maxim Matusevich, Associate Professor of History, Seton Hall University Paul Robeson thought his good friend, the poet Itzik Feffer, looked jittery when he...
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Playthings from the Past
Playthings from the Past By Sara Fieldston, Assistant Professor of History, Seton Hall University As the new year begins, children across America are enjoying their holiday loot. Ever wonder what kinds...
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History Department Symposium on Propaganda
Technologies of Truth: Propaganda, Ideology, and the Modern State An Interdisciplinary Symposium January 22, 2016 The rise of industrialized mass-societies predicated on notions of popular sovereignty...
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WHOSE MISFORTUNE? MALHEUR AND AMERICA’S HISTORY OF REGIONAL AND RACIAL CONFLICT By Sean P. Harvey The last of the armed protesters left the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, near Burns, Oregon, on...
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Remembering Easter 1916
Remembering Easter 1916 by Dr. Dermot Quinn, Professor of History Seton Hall University I was in Madrid recently giving a talk on G.K. Chesterton when I came across a sign which said more than it...
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The Prague Spring as Seen from the United States
The Prague Spring as Seen from the United States By William J. Connell, LaMotta Chair and Professor of History, Seton Hall University The Prague Spring had resonances in the United States that were...
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