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  • January 27, 2017

January 27, 2017 News + Announcements

Friday, January 27, 2017

  • Lineage Solutions contracted Andrew Koke (PhD 2013) to create the first high school virtual reality history course, a course on the American Revolution in a Global Context. Drew completed the filming in late 2016, and the course will feature lectures in virtual spaces as well as opportunities for students to experience an artist's rendering of Lexington and Concord, the Boston Massacre, and the signing of the Declaration.
  • Eric Sandweiss's article, "Lockridge Family Histories: Looking for the Raintree," appears in Rethinking History (21:1), as part of a special issue on "History as Creative Writing."
  • Congratulations are due to Jonathan Schlesinger, whose new book, A World Trimmed with Fur: Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule has just been published by Stanford University Press.
  • Graduate student Alexis Smith received a Filson Fellowship to visit the Filson Historical Society in Louisville, Kentucky. She will spend February 2017 researching there.
  • Christina Snyder's newest book, Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson, will be released by Oxford University Press on March 1.
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