Media Relations
Tuesday,
November 25,
2003
History Department
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's failing health could present an even greater challenge to the next president than his diplomatic exploitation of his country's nuclear weapon's program, according to an Indiana University historian who has written extensively on the Asian nation.
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The September 2008 issue of the Indiana Magazine of History leads off with an article on the little-known role played by bicyclists in the presidential election of 1896, which pitted Republican William McKinley against Democrat William Jennings Bryan. Author Michael Taylor argues that cyclists -- lobbying for good city streets and rural roads -- became a political force in the elections of the 1890s.
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More than 200 experts who study indigenous languages spoken in Latin America will come to Indiana University's Bloomington campus today (August 14) through Saturday for the first biennial Symposium on Teaching Indigenous Languages of Latin America or STILLA.
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More than a century's worth of scholarship on Indiana history is now available on a free, searchable Web site created by the Indiana University Digital Library Program and the Indiana Magazine of History.
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Alex Tipei, a graduate student in history at Indiana University, is one of 44 Jacob K. Javits fellows named this month by the U.S. Department of Education. The fellowships are awarded to graduate students in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
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Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz, a doctoral student in history at Indiana University Bloomington, has been named a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow for the 2008-09 academic year. She is one of 29 students at U.S. universities to be awarded the fellowship, announced by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
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