By: Nick Santangelo
With 97 percent of scientists agreeing that anthropologic climate change is very much real, it seems like the debate is largely over. But while the science...
By: Nick Santangelo
It was Cuba by way of Mexico by way of the Soviet Union that writer Guillermo Cabrera Infante chose as his approach for denouncing Cuba's move towards Stal...
I graduated from Temple University in 2008 with Honors in History. Since then, I have successfully managed a Pennsylvania State House campaign. Graduated from law school while...
By: Nick Santangelo
In October 2017, Catalonia attempted to vote on a referendum for its independence from Spain, where most of the region is located (a portion is in France)....
By: Nick Santangelo
Our current moment in U.S. history is marked by youth-led protests, divisive politics and a foreign war with no end in sight. That means 2018 shares a lot ...
By: Nick Santangelo
Religion Professor Mark Leuchter wanted his audience to know he doesn't hate guns. He doesn't even hate the National Rifle Association (NRA). But he does h...
By: Sara Curnow Wilson
From the way she talks about Temple University and Philadelphia, you'd never know Samantha Smyth (CLA '17) was a transfer student—or that she's Canadi...
In my junior year, I was selected to be a McNair Scholar and had the opportunity to work individually with Professors Ralph Young and Bryant Simon to conduct my own in-depth r...
Graduation day already?! Today marks the official end of undergraduate life for the class of 2017.
We'd be sadder to see them go if we weren't so excited to see what they do n...
By: Sara Curnow Wilson
Every year, Temple University recognizes select faculty for their contributions in research and teaching. This year, three liberal arts faculty members ...
Faculty and staff gathered in Shusterman Hall this week to honor retiring faculty members and recipients of College of Liberal Arts Teaching Awards.
"It's no secret that our ...
When I chose to major in history at the start of my undergraduate career, I was certain I would be going to law school and becoming a lawyer. When I changed my mind about that...
By Sara Curnow Wilson
"Boooo!"
As Anaya Carter-Duckett stands in front of the classroom, her fellow students punctuate her presentation by booing and slamming their fists on t...
By: Joseph Master
In early 2007, while sitting in his 10th-floor office in Gladfelter Hall, Richard Immerman received a call that changed everything.
"What do you know about t...
"Plunder explains so much about what we see in our communities today," acclaimed writer and MacArthur Foundation fellow Ta-Nehisi Coates told a packed house of students, facul...
By: Mark A. Pollack
November 8 will mark the end of one of the most remarkable and bitterly contested presidential elections in American history. Over the course of these elec...
By: Brian McNamara
Dr. Aaron B. O'Connell is a historian, a musician, an author,and a marine. He holds a PhD in history and a master's degree in American studies from Yale Un...