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“It’s time to vote for the Teacher of the Year! If you are a residential student in the History Department, please go to the link in our bio by March 31 to vote for the history professor you think should be the Teacher of the Year!”

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We`re so proud of our history students! Hannah Dugan, one of our undergraduate students, is spending this semester broadening her horizons and studying history in the Czech Republic. Visit https://www.liberty.edu/news/all-news/ to read more about her experience studying abroad. Keep up the awesome work, Hannah!

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Mary Ritter Beard was a scholar and historian in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her contributions to the study of American history were vast, and her influence spurred on women’s history in the United States.

Born in 1876, Mary Beard grew up in Indianapolis and went to study at DePauw University. It was here she became aware of the lack of educational resources for women in higher education, and she met her husband, Charles Beard. These two would go on to author multiple books together, pushing for the “New History”, the inclusion of social, economic, and cultural information in histories.

Mary Beard’s personal research was dedicated to the labor movement and women’s history. She viewed women as a powerful force in developing culture and wrote many books on the history of women in America. She also collected relevant documents to women’s history through her organization the World Center for Women’s Archiving. Sadly, the organization only lasted for five years. However, the WCWA inspired the History of Women in America Library at the Radcliffe institute.

Mary Beard helped lead the charge for the development of women’s history in America; her research and writings changed the face of history education and provided a platform for the previously neglected women of history.

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What do entomologists and clocks have in common? Turns out, it’s more than just ticks!

George Hudson, an entomologist from New Zealand in the late 19th century, is credited with being the first to propose what we now know as Daylight Savings Time. He noticed that, depending on the time of year, he had different amounts of daylight time to collect insects after his work shifts. His essays on the subject, published in 1895 and 1898, advocated for a time shift on the equinoxes to allow for a “longer” day. At the time, Hudson’s essays were repudiated and considered unscientific by many scholars. Just 23 years after his initial essay, however, the US passed the Standard Time Act, which was the first implementation of both Standard Time and Daylight Savings Time in the United States.

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