NEWS & EVENTS

Year in Review: History Professors have been busy, and will stay busy (May 2011). Here's a look at what the History faculty have been up to this semester, and some of their summer plans:

Dr. Simpson is visiting Germany this summer, to present a paper titled "The 'Lkimaniki' and the End of Colonial Grazing Regulations: Samburuland, Kenya 1948-1063" at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology's conference on Mobility and Territoriality, May 18-21st, 2011.

Dr. Schneid has been appointed to the Bibliography Committee of the Italian Commission on Military History. In February, Dr. Schneid gave a public lecture, "A Military History of Ancient Israel: From Saul to Solomon" at Beth David Synagogue in Greensboro.

Dr. Schneid recently published the following articles:

• Frederick C. Schneid, "Un affare ben coordinato: la pianificazione bellica franco-piemontese nel 1859" in Studi Storico Militari Rome: Stato Maggiore Esercito - Ufficio Storico, 2011

• Frederick C. Schneid, "The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars", in Heinz Durchart and Peter H. Wilson eds., European History Online (EGO), published by the Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz Jan 27, 2011. URL: http://www.ieg-ego.eu/schneidf-2011-en URN: urn:nbn:de:0159-20101025334

In addition, Dr. Schneid had the following book chapter published: Frederick C. Schneid, "The Army of the Kingdom of Italy" in Gregory Fremont-Barnes ed., Armies of the Napoleonic Era Barnsely: Pen & Sword, 2011.

Mr. Duchess had a book review published in the Autumn 2010 edition of Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, on Deserter Country: Civil War Opposition in the Pennsylvania Appalachians, by Robert M. Sandow. In addition, he has been asked by the same journal to review the recent book Northerners at War: Reflections on the Civil War Home Front, by historian J. Matthew Gallman to be published in the Summer or Autumn 2011 edition.
 

Mr. Duchess will be working with the Education Testing Service for the fifth consecutive year scoring exams for the Advanced Placement program in U.S. History in Louisville, KY, in June 2011.