News
Professor Carol Lasser Elected President of Prestigious Historical Society
Kasey Cheydleur
Professor of History Carol Lasser has been named president-elect of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.
A Summer Spent with Oberlin's Earliest Feminists
Kasey Cheydleur
Professor of History Carol Lasser and a team of students delve into the college archives to research first-wave feminisms in Oberlin.
Labor of Love
Rosalind Black
Once a politics and history major, John Kallas ’14 goes from studying contemporary American union strategy to practicing it on the streets of Cleveland.
Women Sing Out
Rosalind Black
A new Ohio Historical Marker installed at the First Church in Oberlin, United Church of Christ, honors First Church and Antoinette Brown Blackwell, class of 1847, and the first woman ordained as a minister in the United States.
Bringing Experience In Activism to the Classroom
Veronika Edwards
Associate Professor Zeinab Abul-Magd’s first-hand knowledge of Egypt’s revolution and her yearly travels in the region make her a valuable resource for students interested in the Arab Spring and current events in the Middle East and North Africa.