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Student Teacher Talks about Teaching at Fall Semester History Education Reception
Nov 9, 2009 - History student teacher Tim Call was the featured speaker at the history department’s teacher education reception on November 9, 2009. Tim talked about his experiences as a student teacher this fall at Brownsville Middle School and at Jackson’s North Side High School. He stressed the importance of a student teacher making adequate preparations for each day of class and c...
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History Group Does Community Service Project At Green Frog Historic Village
Nov 4, 2009 - A group of five history faculty members and twenty-one students participated in Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society’s community service project at Green Frog Historic Village in Bells, Tennessee, on November 4, 2009. The project was a part of Union University’s annual Campus and Community day activities where faculty, staff, and students perform a wide variety of tasks ...
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Pulitzer Prize Winner Serves as Carls-Schwerdfeger History Lecturer on October 29
Oct 29, 2009 - Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Hackett Fischer, University Professor and Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University, served as the Thirteenth Annual Carls-Schwerdfeger History Lecture Series speaker at Union University on October 29, 2009. He gave two lectures and was the guest of honor at a special dinner.
In an afternoon lecture presented to more t...
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History Club Holds Fall Initiation
Oct 26, 2009 - The Rutledge Honorary History Club held its fall initiation and plenary meeting on October 26, 2009. Club President Elizabeth Blevins presided at the event where ten students were inducted into the club. The inductees were: Lauren Bogdan, Patricia Dawson, Jessica Duck, Savannah German, Steffi King, Will Miller, Glenae Nora, Mary Ellen Poe, Caraline Rickard, and Madeline ...
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Delta-Psi Chapter Celebrates Best Chapter Award with Pizza Party
Oct 9, 2009 - The Delta-Psi Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society celebrated its 2009 Best Chapter Award with a pizza party at the home of Dr. Stephen Carls, the chapter’s faculty advisor, on October 9, 2009. Seventeen people attended the event, including all full-time history faculty members. Among the menu items were several homemade foods - pizza, special vegetable sala...
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Delta-Psi Chapter Inducts Twelve Students into Phi Alpha Theta
Sep 21, 2009 - The Delta-Psi Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society inducted a record twelve students into the society this fall, eleven of whom were initiated at the chapter’s plenary meeting on September 21, 2009. The chapter also had a record-setting twenty-seven people attend the meeting. Students who became members of the society this fall were David Conway, Betsy Davis,...
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Delta-Psi Chapter Wins Seventh Straight Phi Alpha Theta Best Chapter Award
Sep 15, 2009 - Union’s Delta-Psi Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society received word on September 15 that it had won another Best Chapter Award for the quality of its activities and work. Since this represented the seventh straight year of success, the chapter received the prestigious Nels A. Cleven designation, which is reserved for chapters that have won a Best Chapter Awar...
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Forty People Attend Annual History Welcome Reception
Sep 14, 2009 - Forty people, including all full-time history faculty members, attended the department’s annual history welcome reception at Dr. Stephen Carls’ home on September 14, 2009. The reception gave history students, both majors and minors, the opportunity to become better acquainted with the history faculty and each other. A variety of foods were served, such as pork tenderloi...
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Pulitzer Prize-winning Author to Serve as Carls-Schwerdfeger History Lecturer on October 29
Sep 11, 2009 - Dr. David Hackett Fischer, Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University and the 2005 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History, will serve as the 2009 Carls-Schwerdfeger History Lecture Series speaker at Union University on Thursday, October 29, 2009. His main lecture will be on “Leaders in an Open Society: The Presidencies of Washington, Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, and Bar...
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History Department Begins New Year with an Abundance of Activities
Sep 10, 2009 - The history department began the 2009-2010 school year with an abundance of activities. The department launched its year at the Union University faculty-staff dinner on August 18. Sitting together at a reserved table, department members and their spouses enjoyed good food and a program of music presented by the Gettys. Two days later, all department members attended th...
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