Friday April 4
Departs from campus via a bus.
Harrisburg Civil War Roundtable
Saturday April 5
Tour of the Gettysburg National Military Park with a behind the scenes tour of the museum and a tour of the cyclorama depicting the battle. The American Battlefield Trust has an animated map of the battle that will help you understand the lay of the land.
Sunday April 6
Antietam National Battlefield. This is one of the critical battles of the war. The American Battlefield Trust has an over of the battle on YouTube.
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park - the site of John Brown's Raid and numerous battles.
Chris Mackowski, of the Jandoli School of Communications, and Phillip Payne, professor of history, are team teaching History 320: The Civil War and Reconstruction. This is the first time the Civil War and Reconstruction has been taught at SBU in around 20 years. We're excited to do this and experimenting with collaborative ways to teach history.
Taking advantage of his work with the Emerging Civil War (Dr. Mackowski is the co-founder and Editor and Chief) and the American Battlefield Trust, he has arranged a series of guest speakers bringing a real depth and breadth of expertise to the class.
Students in the class, and members of the university community, are invited to join a field trip to tour Gettysburg, Antietam and Harpers Ferry on April 4 - 7. If you are interested contact either Chris Mackowski or Phillip Payne for cost and details.
Phillip Payne chaired the session “Citizens: the Past, Present, and Future of History and Civics Education. American Historical Association, New York City: January 3 – 6, 2025. The panelist represented faculty from education and history discussed the relationship between history and civics education in k-12 and higher education.
St. Bonaventure faculty will discuss presidential election on TV and radio this weekend
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y., Oct. 30, 2024 — Buffalo Toronto Public Media will broadcast a forum that features St. Bonaventure University faculty unpacking the issues in the presidential election.
The 90-minute program will air on WNED-TV, a PBS member television station in Buffalo, on Saturday, Nov. 2, at 5 p.m. and 88.7 FM WBFO Monday, Nov. 4, at 8 p.m.
“This program was a tremendous collaborative effort among students, faculty, staff and alumni,” said Aaron Chimbel, dean of the Jandoli School of Communication. “I am proud of the efforts of everyone involved to produce a timely and important discussion of the issues at stake in the election, and I appreciate our local public media making this engaging broadcast available to a wider audience.”
The forum, “Policy Palooza at SBU: How the Presidential Election Will Affect the Lives of Today’s College Students,” was recorded on Tuesday, Oct. 22, on the St. Bonaventure campus.
Jandoli School Professor Richard Lee, a former political reporter and press secretary, and student Sydney Labayewski, an SBU-TV news anchor and reporter, moderated the session. Panelists included several St. Bonaventure faculty members, as well as SBU alumnus Bob McCarthy, ’76, a veteran political reporter and analyst.
Lee and Jandoli School faculty member Scott Sackett worked as partners to develop and produce the program.
“Our goal was to bring together journalists, policy experts, students and the university community for insightful conversations,” Lee said.
Panelists discussed the economy, health care, foreign policy, immigration, cybersecurity and other issues. St. Bonaventure students staffed the production.
“I’ve heard from many of my students that they don’t follow news or politics, and I wondered whether giving them a safe space for civil discourse might change how they feel,” Sackett said. “I was inspired by ‘Firing Line,’ ‘The McLaughlin Group’ and ‘Geoffrey Robertson’s Hypotheticals’ — the current affairs programs I enjoyed watching when I was their age.”
The project was funded by the Jandoli School and by a grant from the Leo E. Keenan Jr. Faculty Development Endowment at St. Bonaventure.
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About the University: The nation’s first Franciscan university, St. Bonaventure University is a community committed to transforming the lives of our students inside and outside the classroom, inspiring in them a lifelong commitment to service and citizenship. Out of 167 regional universities in the North, St. Bonaventure was ranked #6 for value and #14 for innovation by U.S. News and World Report (2024).
Chris Dalton, senior lecturer, and Phil Payne, professor, presented at the 2024 H-Net Teaching Conference on August 22, 2024. The theme of the conference was "History, Social Sciences, and Humanities: Working in Classrooms and Communities." They participated in the panel "It Takes a Collaboration: Teaching In and Out of the Classroom with Campus and Community Partners." Professor Dalton presented "The Local and the National: A College & Community Engagement Project" working with students in the history methods class work on a local history project in collaboration with the Cuba Circulating Library. Professor Payne presented "Lessons Learned: Community Collaboration with History and Education" summarizing his work on an National Endowment for the Humanities Connection planning grant, “Collaborative Pathways for Inquiry-Based Education: Piloting a Humanities Education Partnership.”
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y., May 2, 2024 — A new book by Dr. Joel Horowitz,
professor emeritus of History at St. Bonaventure University, examines the impact of civic associations on the culture
and society of Buenos Aires and their ties to politics in the first decades of
the 20th century.
“The Creation of Modern Buenos Aires: Football, Civic Associations, Barrios, and Politics, 1912-1943,” published by the University of New Mexico Press, focuses on a period that saw the emergence of the modern political system with true appeals to the voters, tremendous urban growth, and the solidification of a barrio identity.
Horowitz examines four types of organizations: football clubs, bibliotecas populares (popular libraries), sociedades de fomento (development societies that pushed for barrio improvements), and universidades populares (popular universities that provided practical training beyond the primary school level). All four types became important social centers and were connected to the political world. The book covers the period from the passage of a voting reform law in 1912, which made male citizen voting obligatory and fraud more difficult, to the military coup of 1943.
“The book shows how civic associations helped create the social world of the city, focusing especially on the part they played in the development of the sense of barrio,” Horowitz said. “These associations became vital links in the system of politics that emerged, providing politicians with opportunities to build connections to a variety of communities.”
Horowitz also demonstrates that even though these organizations were created by inhabitants to fulfill some of their needs and were generally founded on democratic procedures, they did not function as schools for democracy.
Horowitz taught in SBU’s Department of History from 1989 to 2016. He is the author of two other books: “Argentina’s Radical Party and Popular Mobilization, 1916-1930” and “Argentine Unions, the State, and the Rise of Perón, 1930-1945.”
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About the University: The nation’s first Franciscan university,
St. Bonaventure University is a community committed to transforming the lives
of our students inside and outside the classroom, inspiring in them a lifelong
commitment to service and citizenship. Out of 167 regional universities in the
North, St. Bonaventure was ranked #6 for value and #14 for innovation by U.S. News
and World Report (2024).
