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New specialist always ready to lend a hand | Othello Outlook
12.18.09
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alumni | chss | history | special_education | Woodring | woodring
As more information becomes available, the more it is evident that none of us can learn the same way. We all have different learning styles. But some have trouble grasping even the basics of learning. Many years ago, a student may have been called stupid or slow. But now, the problem is usually diagnosed as a learning disability. Nathan Broweleit, who for two years was substitute teaching at McFarland Middle School, began this year as the special education resource room specialist for McFarland.
Our China journal: Reflecting on 5 weeks in China | Daily Chronicle
12.7.09
In the media
Donald Whisenhunt | history
As I write this column, we have three days before we leave for home. By the time this is published, we will be back in Sycamore. As we reflect on our almost five weeks in China, we leave with a bit of nostalgia. At our ages, we know that this is our last trip to China. That is sad, in one way, and in another, I would not want to come back again. This trip has been virtually perfect. We saw our friends from 14 years ago, I lectured to and experienced the students who are much like they were the first time, and we have lived in another culture.
Stewart named Thomson Distinguished Visiting Chair at Davidson College for fall 2009
11.12.09
Faculty publication
appointment | chss | history | Mart Stewart

Mart Stewart (History) is currently serving as the Thomson Distinguished Visiting Chair in Environmental Studies at Davidson College in Davidson, N.C.. He was named to the post for fall semester 2009.
Whisenhunt: Visiting China's 3rd-largest city
11.9.09
In the media
chss | faculty | history
Donald W. Whisenhunt is an emeritus professor of history at Western Washington University. He is lecturing for several weeks at Nanking University in China and will share his experiences in this column. As I write this, my wife, Betsy, and I have been in China for four days. We were amazed that we had no jet lag, something that was very serious the first time we came here. I begin my lectures Friday, so we will see how much energy I have this first time.
Returning to China, ready for change | Daily Chronicle
11.3.09
In the media
Donald Whisenhunt | emeritus | faculty | history
This is an introductory column to a series of columns that will be run in the next few weeks. My wife and I are going to China for five weeks. We were in China the first time in 1995 when I was a Fulbright Professor at Nankai University in Tianjin, China. We lived there for five months. Our first trip was an incredible experience. We had traveled to various parts of the world before that, but this was our first experience to actually live in the country among the native people.
WWU's Vajda gives lecture on the role of the Mongols in shaping world history
10.27.09
Video
Edward Vajda | history | mcl | presentation

In this lecture, Edward Vajda, a professor with the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at Western Washington University, presents "The Mongol Impact on World History." As part of celebrating Mongolia Day at WWU, Vajda discusses the spectacular consequences of the Mongol conquests begun in the 13th century by Chinggis Khan. The lecture explains how the medieval era ended and the modern world began in the wake of history's most successful empire builder.

Randall C. Jimerson (History) publishes book, teaches workshop, delivers keynote
10.23.09
Faculty publication
history | presentation | publication | Randall Jimerson

Randall C. Jimerson (History) recently published the book "Archives Power: Memory, Accountability, and Social Justice" (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2009). Grounded in historical and social theory, this analysis of the power of archives and the role of archivists in society calls for renewed emphasis on remembrance, evidence and documentation as a means of securing open government, accountability, diversity and social justice. Jimerson argues for development of an archival ethics of professional and societal responsibility.
Bob Eager to be honored as “Harborite of the Year” | The Daily World
10.8.09
In the media
alumni | history
Bob Eager is living a life ladled with the history of the Wishkah Valley. The retired Wishkah School teacher, who just turned 60, lives on a ranch that has been in his family for three generations. Within sight of his home, he can point out an area historic loggers once used to float timber down the Wishkah and the original homestead of the Johnson family, where a 15-foot hand dug well is still used.
Getting to know George Mariz
9.11.09
Faculty and staff profile
faculty | George Mariz | history | Honors Program | profiles

Name: George Mariz

Title: Professor of History and director of the Honors Program

Hobbies: Music (classical), architecture, travel and cross-country bicycling

Favorite Restaurant: Busara

Favorite Books: Homer’s “Iliad” and “Odyssey,” many Shakespearean plays, Greek tragedy, William Faulkner’s “Absalom, Absalom!” and “The Sound and the Fury” and works by Dostoevsky, Kafka and Austen
Johann N. Neem - The Boston Globe
6.29.09
In the media
faculty | history
Historian Johann N. Neem says that our current social and political landscape, composed of an entire alphabet of competing interest groups, was far from the society that our early political leaders hoped to build. They envisioned a country where citizens’ first sense of responsibility would be to the state itself, and thought that any group developed outside the government could become a threat to the republic’s stability.