Site-Wide Activity

In an analysis of John M.Thurston’s We Must Act! I feel as if I can immediately tie this to a modern-day issue we unfortunately still find ourselves with. Thurston goes on to explain the issue of the Spanish f […]

Over the past few days, 47 people have died, 4 are missing and 18,000 people have been forced to flee from their homes because of severe weather. In the state of Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil, landslides […]

Looking for support as you work on your timeline entries?  Woo Write-Ins are a place where students who don’t have I.S. can come and focus on their paper and essay assignments. They will be held every other […]

Looking for additional support on our assignments?  Woo Write-Ins are a place where students who don’t have I.S. can come and focus on their paper and essay assignments. They will be held every other […]

We spent Monday’s class participating in a digital public history workshop with Megan Smeznik to help us learn how to format and post our timeline entries. Before we began the workshop however, Professor Holt g […]

Argentina has been one of the most progressive feminist countries in recent years, as demonstrated by the rapid change of social norms. There have been social movements such as #AbortoLegal and #NiUnaMenos […]

For my research project, I would like to explore the life of Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz. My research would include analyzing her significant poems and additional writings to examine how Cruz challenged the […]

The New England Woman Suffrage Association’s 1898 annual meeting record provides justification for American women’s suffrage rights in the 19th century. The record was written under the circumstance in which the […]

For my research project, I would like to explore: How did deep prejudice toward homosexuals in Cuba during the Revolution motivate the development of Cuban LGBTQ+ rights to the present? I am interested in […]

John M. Thurston’s speech, titled “We Must Act!” is a heart-wrenching cry for humanitarianism. Calling upon the spirit of his dead wife, who, one can only assume, died after interacting with the conditions of the […]

Learn how Wooster alumna Sarah Coffin’s career took a different path than planned, how she’s overcome being a young female in a male dominate industry, and how she’s moving her career forward.
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For my research project, I am going to be focusing on the mass-mobilization of university students in Chile and its effect on public policy. Chile’s university students have historically been at the forefront of […]

when we first got to Johnson woods I was very underwhelmed. In class, there were mentions of how it was a nature park so I pictured something much larger. I was really saddened when we pulled up and it was a small […]

When approaching Johnson Woods on the bus, one quote that stuck out to me was one that Professor Bourne mentioned which was on the lines of “straight ahead you will see a forest on the left and on the other s […]

During our visit to Johnsons Woods, the fallen trees were what stuck out to me most. There were some that had clearly fallen naturally, and their roots were sticking up from the ground, while others looked as if […]