Mabry selected from 488 candidates to receive $5,000 scholarship  Read more...

Luther College junior Cate Anderson and sophomore Maggie Steinberg have been selected as Peace Scholars for the 2013-14 academic year. The pair will spend seven weeks this summer studying peace and conflict resolution in Lillehammer and Oslo, Norway. Anderson is also the recipient of this year's Charles Norby Scholarship.  Read more...

Associate Professor Brian Caton presented a paper, "The Transition from Animal Capital to Land Capital in Colonial Punjab, 1850-1900," to a conference on "Asian Ecologies: Capital, Modernity, and the Environment," on April 6, at Lahore University of Management Sciences in Pakistan.  Read more...

Visiting Assistant Professor Lauren Kientz Anderson presented at the Organization of American Historians in San Francisco on April 13, 2013.  Read more...

On Sunday, April 7 in Koren 217, Phi Alpha Theta had a showing of the Mel Brooks film History of the World, Part I.  Read more...

Chelsea Tegels, president of Phi Alpha Theta, presented at the Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference in Omaha, Nebraska on March 7-10, 2013. After giving her paper, entitled "Louis-Philippe's Impartiality in Fragmented Paris, 1832," she was pleased to learn that she had been awarded the "Best Undergrad Paper." Congratulations Chelsea!

Her paper examined the following:  Read more...

The Third Historian's Workshop of the semester will take place Thursday, May 2 at 7:00 PM in Koren 216, 217, 218.  Students will present their senior papers, followed by a time for questions. Come support your fellow students!  Read more...

Richard Mtisi presented the second historian's workshop of the semester on April 4, 2013.  His talk was entitled, "'They Promised that Game Fences Would be Torn Down': Nationalist Politics and Contested Control of Natural Resources in Southeastern Zimbabwe, 1960s-1970s.”  This study is one part of Dr. Mtisi’s larger project on the environmental history of Southeastern Zimbabwe and Mozambique.  Read more...

Anna Petersen will be joining our department Fall 2013 as our new modern European historian.  Read more...

Robert Christman, Luther College associate professor of history, was named the inaugural Kermit O. and Jane E. Hanson Professor in History at Luther's Spring Convocation Jan. 31.  Read more...

The Luther Skald, the History Department's undergraduate journal, was published for February 2013.   Read more...

Richard Mtisi, professor of History and Africana Studies, received the exciting news of his tenure during Spring 2013. Visit his webpage for more information about this valuable member of our department.  Read more...