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In Memoriam: Dagmar Barnouw, 72
May 1, 2008Dagmar Barnouw, a pre-eminent scholar of the intellectual and cultural history of modern Germany, has died. She was 72. A professor of German and comparative literature in USC College since 1988, Barnouw suffered a stroke… more>
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Telling an Unfinished Story
April 1, 2008Before dying of typhus in the Dutch concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, Anne Frank wrote in her world famous diary, “… in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.” If Frank… more>
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Preserving Memories of Genocide in Rwanda
February 1, 2008In a pathbreaking new partnership to record the testimonies of genocide survivors, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education is joining with IBUKA, the umbrella organization representing survivors… more>
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UK Film Academy Recognizes Holocaust Education Resource
November 1, 2007Recollections: Eyewitnesses Remember the Holocaust, a groundbreaking DVD-ROM including Holocaust survivor and witness testimonies from the visual history archive of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute (SFI), won an award from… more>
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USC Shoah Foundation Institute Announces New Web Site
November 1, 2007This week the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, part of the USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences, launched a new Web site at college.usc.edu/vhi. The institute’s visual history archive contains nearly 52,000… more>
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USC Shoah Foundation Institute Looks To Broaden Mission
May 1, 2007The USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education is moving forward with its plan to expand beyond the Holocaust and document survivor memories from other acts of genocide and oppression. Calling the move an… more>
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USC Profs Named Guggenheim Fellows
April 1, 2007Two USC professors have earned Guggenheim Fellowships by focusing on two of the day’s most talked-about topics — evolution and war.fe Mary L. Dudziak of the USC Gould School of Law will use the fellowship to… more>
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He’s Ready for His Historical Close-up
November 1, 2006When The Teaching Company pounded the campus pavement, searching for just the right scholar, they handpicked Peter Mancall, professor of history and anthropology at USC College.Mancall had it all, recruiters determined.… more>
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Putting Technology in its Place — in the Classroom
November 1, 2006An hour into a lecture on notions of the origin of species, historian Philippa Levine instructs her students to take out their clickers. As students retrieve from their bags small, remote control-like devices, the following… more>
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Taking History to School
August 1, 2006The nine-year-old boy stood in the front of the classroom, under a hand-made sign reading “friar's quarters.” He held a slip of paper, from which he read out to his classmates, slowly and carefully:… more>
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