Tag: Russia

MA Student Daniel Leon’s Op-Ed Published in St. Louis Post-Dispatch

April 27, 2022

Daniel Leon, an MA student studying US and British relations during the American Civil War, published an op-ed piece with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch recently. Leon argues that the economic and political lessons learned from the South’s exit from the world cotton market, as well as the inherent dangers of both an economy based primarily on a single product and of nations whose dependence on that product seeks to dictate its foreign policy, are relevant to world’s current response to […]

A Triumph of American Technology: Remembering the 1969 Apollo Moon Landing on its Fiftieth Anniversary

April 20, 2019

Faculty and students met on April 10 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing. “A Triumph of American Technology: Remembering the 1969  Apollo  Moon  Landing on its 50th Anniversary” was hosted in Gorgas Library and had a very successful turn out. The discussed topics ranging from the dynamics of rocketry, the race to space between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, putting the first object into orbit, missile design, and the evolution of the process to achieve […]

A Triumph of American Technology: Remembering the 1969 Apollo Moon Landing on its 50th Anniversary

March 25, 2019

The Department of History is hosting a colloquium on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing on Wednesday, April 10, at 5:15 p.m. in 205 Gorgas. It will include talks by Dr. Richard Branam, Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, titled “How We Got There: the Technology of Rocketry and Space Flight,” Dr. Margaret Peacock, Associate Professor of History, titled “The Space Race: Beating the Ruskies to the Moon,” and Dr. Harold Selesky, Associate Professor of History, titled “Climbing […]