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300 Carson Hall
Hanover, NH  03755
P: (603) 646-2545 or
(603) 646-9503
F: (603) 646-3353
 
Contact Information:
Chair: Walter Simons (walter.simons@dartmouth.edu)
Vice Chairs: David Lagomarsino (david.lagomarsino@dartmouth.edu) [Fall] and Douglas Haynes (douglas.haynes@dartmouth.edu) [Winter & Spring]
 
A&S History Department Administrator:  Gail M. Vernazza (gail.vernazza@dartmouth.edu)
History Department Administrative Assistant:  Bruch Lehmann (kristin.b.lehmann@dartmouth.edu)
 
 
Banner image:
Leonardo Bruni, Historia Florentina, Venice, 1476. Printed on vellum, illuminated bifolium (Dartmouth College, Rauner Special Collections, Lansburgh 36)

Events

Lectures and Symposiums

UNKEPT WOMEN:  Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris

Monday, May 13, 4 PM, L02 Carson Hall

Lecture by NINA KUSHNER D'90, Assistant Professor of History, Clark University

 

TOPPLING KUCHUM, CROSSING A CONTINENT: Russia's Conquest of Siberia and Expansion Across Eurasia

Tuesday, May 7th, 4 PM, L02 Carson Hall

Lecture by Erika Monahan D'96, Assistant Professor of History, University of New Mexico

 


 


 


 

 

 

 

 

Heide W. Whelan

Whelan

Professor of History Emerita

Email: Heide.Whelan@Dartmouth.edu

 

Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Russian tank units stationed half a mile away from my childhood home first provoked my interest in Russia and its people. Since then I've spent years in Moscow and Petersburg and even more years studying Russia's language and its history, with no sense that I've done more than begin to plumb the mysteries of one or the other. Though most of my early work centered on Imperial Russia, I've spent increasing time the past few years on the recent Soviet past and the day by day unfolding of events that, until they occurred, I had never hoped to see in my lifetime. Today, after thirty years of work in the field, Russian history has lost none of its fascination, and the recent march of historical events at fast-forward speed suggests that it never will, any more than the role of Russia itself will diminish in world history.

 

 

 

 

 

Last Updated: 6/11/13