This is fun: http://chir.ag/phernalia/preztags/ You can find a range of presidential speeches going back to 1776, with their main words tagg...

The Garvey Fellowship Contest for junior higher education faculty and students is held every other year. The submission deadline is May 1, 2...

From IHS. These are fully funded with the exception of getting there, and they offered across the country, on topics dealing with domestic ...

It seems that of late my contributions to the blog have gotten a bit too wonky--all this talk about internships, graduate education and spec...

Another great update from Professor Share heading the ILACA program in the UK. Most people associate Edinburgh, Scotland, with castles and k...

After my recent video post of Professor Bonura in Vietnam I got an email from Julia Grant '05, who was there as well. And she's be...

A piece in The Trail on the recent visit by Andrea Tull '02 to campus and her talk on working in DC. Of course, the most important thin...

"So I start thinking. This is a beautiful animal. And how cool would it be to get a little piece of him. I mean, I feel bad that he is ...

An interesting talk, to be certain, and another great poster by our incredible department secretary, Irene Lim.

1. Internship, Senator Patty Murray Senator Murray is looking for legislative interns in D.C. and constituent advocacy interns in the Seattl...

Thompson Hall Observatory

A couple of folks have sent this to me: A History Department Bans Citing Wikipedia as a Research Source By NOAM COHEN New York Times When ha...

Just in... Campaign Corps is a unique grassroots program dedicated to politically empowering young people. Each year, we train talented indi...

Yesterday Andrea Tull '02 came back to campus to speak to students about life on the Hill. Her presentations were really interesting, co...

From Professor Share in London: I think this should be blogolicious! Just a few thoughts and a pic. We often think of the UK as being the W...

Last week I had lunch with two alums and two seniors soon to be loosed into the cold and heartless world. Left to Right: Chris Pohlad, Kat...

We've blogged about her in past , now come meet her in person and find out more about life in DC and working in Congress. If you've...

Because not everything is about politics and government: I like these folks, especially because their dance space is a great old church down...

Being a fan of travel abroad and pictures, I've pestered students and alums for pictures of where they are or where they've been. H...

http://youngandbroke.typepad.com/ An interesting blog about being young, being in debt, and how to get out of the latter while you are still...