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Lute’s Company Leads the Way on New Panama Canal Project Posted by: Sandy Dunham / April 10, 2015 Image: Alan Krause ’76 stands in front of the construction site at the Panama Canal expansion. (Photo courtesy of MWH Global) April 10, 2015 MWH Global Featured in History Channel Show April 11By Matthew Salzano '18PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, Wash. (April 10, 2015)—Fun fact: The Panama Canal opened 101 years ago. Another? The canal is about to expand to double its capacity. The most fun
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,” Steves shared in the magazine. A widely respected authority on European travel, Steves empowers Americans to take European trips that are fun, affordable and culturally broadening. He produces a best-selling guidebook series, a popular public television show, a weekly public radio show, a syndicated travel column and free travel information available through his travel center and ricksteves.com. Steves is also the founder and owner of Rick Steves’ Europe, a travel business with a tour program that
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Choir of the West wins on a global stage Choir of the West brings back the grand prize at International Anton Bruckner Choir Competition and Festival The Choir of the West covered a lot of ground on their recent European Tour—five countries in twelve days, multiple gold awards and the grand prize award at… July 9, 2015 News
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, stoicism, Cartesianism History of science and medicine: imagination, melancholy, mechanism Early modern French Catholicism: mysticism, mission, colonialism Books Louise Dupin’s Work on Women: Selections, co-translated and co-edited with Angela Hunter (Oxford University Press 2023) : View Book Men and Women Making Friends in Early Modern France, co-edited with Lewis Seifert (Routledge 2015) : View Book Gabrielle Suchon, A Woman Who Defends All the Persons of Her Sex: Selected Philosophical and Moral
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philosophy: skepticism, stoicism, Cartesianism History of science and medicine: imagination, melancholy, mechanism Early modern French Catholicism: mysticism, mission, colonialism Books Louise Dupin’s Work on Women: Selections, co-translated and co-edited with Angela Hunter (Oxford University Press 2023) : View Book Men and Women Making Friends in Early Modern France, co-edited with Lewis Seifert (Routledge 2015) : View Book Gabrielle Suchon, A Woman Who Defends All the Persons of Her Sex: Selected
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commonly, Black people appeared in the background of portraits by white artists as exotic subjects. A notable exception being Josiah Wedgwood’s “Am I not a man and a brother” emblem first appearing in 1787 for use in the abolitionist movement.Black agency was rarely conveyed in European portraiture. Georgiana’s portrait is meant to rewrite, or rather, repaint this history, and the portrait itself is likely conversant with one of Georgiana’s real-life historical contemporaries, Dido Elizabeth Belle
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. Amy Simon, William and Audrey Farber Family Endowed Chair in Holocaust Studies and European Jewish History Bio: Dr. Amy Simon holds the William and Audrey Farber Family Chair in Holocaust Studies and European Jewish History at Michigan State University. She teaches in James Madison College, the Department of History, and the Michael and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel. She previously worked as a researcher at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington
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. Amy Simon, William and Audrey Farber Family Endowed Chair in Holocaust Studies and European Jewish History Bio: Dr. Amy Simon holds the William and Audrey Farber Family Chair in Holocaust Studies and European Jewish History at Michigan State University. She teaches in James Madison College, the Department of History, and the Michael and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel. She previously worked as a researcher at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington
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A Conversation with Dr. Rebekah Mergenthal Sabbatical projects focus on new approaches to Western History Posted by: halvormj / July 26, 2021 July 26, 2021 PLU Department of History You might notice that Dr. Rebekah Mergenthal is not listed as an instructor on the History Department’s teaching schedule during the 2021-2022 school year. Although she is eager to get back into the classroom after so many ‘Zoom sessions,’ we’ll have to wait a bit longer for Dr. Mergenthal’s lively presence in
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Choir of the West wins on a global stage Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / July 9, 2015 Image: The Choir of the West with jury members after winning the Anton Bruckner Choir Grand Prize Award. July 9, 2015 Choir of the West brings back the grand prize at International Anton Bruckner Choir Competition and Festival The Choir of the West covered a lot of ground on their recent European Tour—five countries in twelve days, multiple gold awards and the grand prize award at the 5th Annual Anton Bruckner
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