Recent discoveries by a WSU history professor and his students may hold the key to an ongoing American West conflict. After nearly 10 years of research, Professor Orlan Svingen, along with students and colleagues in the WSU public history field schools, unearthed an official U.S. government document from 1870 and several supporting records that shed […]
Sometimes you just get lucky. Graduate students Laura Briere and Jared Chastain, along with their faculty adviser, historian Orlan Svingen, were in College Park, Maryland, last spring looking for information about the storied 161st Infantry Regiment when they stepped off the elevator on the wrong floor. It turned out to be a fortunate mistake.
When history professor Orlan Svingen encouraged nontraditional student Janet Creighton to complete her doctorate at WSU in the 1990s, he had no idea that she and her husband are philanthropists and longtime generous supporters of WSU.
Dancing, drumming and the renaming of a Virginia City, Mont., public park on July 18 honored an important person in the region’s history and marked the start of a public history and education project at WSU.
Few women in U.S. history have had more influence on the nation’s history than the young Lemhi Shoshone woman called Sacajawea. It’s very likely that Lewis and Clark would never have reached the Pacific Ocean had it not been for her help. Orlan Svingen, professor of history, has worked with the descendants of Sacajawea, the […]