{"id":147,"date":"2012-05-28T16:44:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T16:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/staging-history\/?page_id=147"},"modified":"2022-03-30T18:50:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T18:50:38","slug":"history-links","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/history\/history-links\/","title":{"rendered":"History News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why study History?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historians.org\/pubs\/free\/WhyStudyHistory.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">essay<\/a> written by Peter Stearns, Professor of History and Provost at George Mason University.&nbsp; Prof. Stearns is editor-in-chief of the <em>Journal of Social History<\/em>, which he founded in 1967.&nbsp; The <em>JSH<\/em> is one of the most often-cited historical journals in the United States. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How much is a bachelor&#8217;s degree in History worth?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"185\" height=\"294\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/history\/files\/2012\/05\/9781498537179.jpg\" alt=\"Reagan's War on Terrorism in Nicaragua by Dr. Philip W. Travis\" class=\"wp-image-991\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.historians.org\/news\/1340\/new-report-finds-us-history-majors-highest-earners-in-humanities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent report<\/a> by Georgetown University&#8217;s Center on Education and the Workforce finds that U.S. History majors are the highest earners in the humanities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">History faculty member releases new book:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Phillip Travis, an adjunct instructor of history at EOU, has published a new book entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/rowman.com\/ISBN\/9781498537179\/Reagan's-War-on-Terrorism-in-Nicaragua-The-Outlaw-State#\"><em>Reagan&#8217;s War on Terrorism in Nicaragua: The Outlaw State<\/em> (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2016)<\/a>.&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #222222;\">This study examines the Reagan administration\u2019s proxy war against Nicaragua and its use of the emergent threat of international terrorism as a pretext. It also analyzes the administration\u2019s conception of international law and argues that its Nicaragua policy set a precedent for the U.S. War on Terror in the twenty-first century.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Upcoming Conferences &amp; Events:\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image wp-image-1026 size-medium\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/history\/files\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-10-at-3.12.19-PM-232x300.png\" alt=\"Dr. Mario Sifuentez book talk poster \" class=\"wp-image-1026\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/history\/files\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-10-at-3.12.19-PM-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/history\/files\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-10-at-3.12.19-PM-791x1024.png 791w, https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/history\/files\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-10-at-3.12.19-PM.png 959w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><figcaption>Dr. Mario Sifuentez to give book talk at EOU on February 17 @ 3:00 in Pierce Library<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why study History? An essay written by Peter Stearns, Professor of History and Provost at George Mason University.&nbsp; Prof. Stearns is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Social History, which he founded in 1967.&nbsp; The JSH is one of the most often-cited historical journals in the United States. How much is a bachelor&#8217;s degree in History [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-147","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1320,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/147\/revisions\/1320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}