2025-2026: America250 @ YSU
This series, in partnership with YSU250, will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. In particular, it will highlight the contributions of the peoples of the Mahoning Valley to the past, present, and future of the nation.
- Andew Och
“The First Ladies Man”
November 3, 2025
2024-2025: America in Myth and Memory
This series explores evolutions in American identity since the 19th century, considering different ways of being American as well as the American public’s changing relationship to its history.
- Dr. Linda Gordon, Florence Kelley Professor of History & University Professor of the Humanities, New York University
“The Much Misunderstood Women’s Liberation Movement”
March 20, 2025 - Dr. Martha Pallante, Sean Posey, Steven Viglio
Roundtable: “Remembering the Niles Uprising of 1924: The Rise and Fall of the KKK in Northeast Ohio”
November 1, 2024
2023-2024: Experts Wanted
The speakers in this series were invited based on requests by campus constituents and community members to hear from experts on matters of special importance to their work.
- Dr. Tiffany L. Knoell, Associate Professor, Bowling Green State University
“Have Pastport, Will Travel”
February 22, 2024 - Dr. Alex Wesaw, Director of American Indian Relations, Ohio History Connection
“Better Understood by Policy than by Law”
November 2, 2023
2022-2023: Labor Then and Now
This series explores historical and ongoing challenges facing the working class in the United States. Hosted in partnership with the YSU Center for Working Class Studies, the Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor, and the Youngstown Solidarity Network.
- Dr. AJ Sumell, Michael Shields, Dr. Tanisha Pruitt
“State of Working Ohio: Wages & Unions & Strikes, O My!”
November 27, 2023 - Dr. Kenneth Bindas, Dr. Stephanie Shaw, Dr. Gregory S. Wilson
Roundtable: “Labor and the Working Class in U.S. History”
November 18, 2022
2021-2022: History Happened Here
This series explores subjects in local and regional history, highlighting the contributions of Ohio and Ohioans at important moments in national and world history.
- Melissa Karman, MA
The Sutliff Family and the Underground Railroad
April 12, 2022 - Phyllis Yarber Hogan, Dr. Gary Kornblith, & Dr. Carol Lasser
The Wilson Bruce Evans Home Historical Society
February 24, 2022 - Bill Lawson, MA
“Local History in the News”
January 31, 2022 - Trumbull County Historical Society
“Hidden in the Archives”
November 18, 2021 - Daniel Welch, MA
“Ohioans at Antietam”
October 6, 2021 - Anthony Spano, MA
“The YSU 9/11 Memorial”
September 8, 2021
2020-2021: History at Work
This series aimed at professionalization. In particular, helping students gain insight into the job market. Speakers focused on helping students understand how to market their history degrees, both inside and outside of traditional history fields.
- Kevin Hoskins, PhD
Curriculum Development, Choices Program
April 21, 2021 - Katherine Owens, MA
Curator of Collections, Missouri State Museum
March 24, 2021 - Arielle Lester, MA, JD
Attorney, McDonald-Hopkins
February 10, 2021 - Carmella Cadusale, MA
Marketing Manager, Innovative Medical Equipment
November 17, 2020 - Julie Mujic, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor, Denison University; Paramount Historical Consulting, LLC
October 21, 2020 - Traci Manning, MA
Curator of Education, Mahoning Valley Historical Society
October 2, 2020