Celebrate President's Day 2018 at Rowan!

This President's Day, join Rowan faculty and students in learning about the presidency from some of the foremost experts on America's highest office. While you're at it, check out some of the History Department's best student research in our poster session. A full schedule of the day's events is below.  

President’s Day

February 19, 2018

The presidency in historical perspective

A day of reflection and celebration

9 a.m.: Fifth Annual President’s Day Breakfast

"The American Presidency and Democratic Institutions,”

by Anne Pluta, Professor of Political Science at Rowan University

Kramme Gymnasium

Friends School Mullica Hill, 15 High Street, Mullica Hill, NJ

5:00 p.m.:  History Student Poster Presentations

History students discuss their research

Rowan Hall Atrium

Rowan University

6:30 p.m.: Keynote Address

"The American Presidency: Past, Present, and Future" by Sean Wilentz, winner of the Bancroft Prize

Betty Long Rowan Lecture Hall, Rowan Hall

Rowan University

ABOUT THE BREAKFAST SPEAKER

Anne Pluta earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She also has a M.A. in History from West Chester University. Her primary research interests are the American presidency, political communication, and the media. In addition, Anne is interested in the methodological challenges involved in doing historical research in political science. Her work has appeared in Presidential Studies Quarterly and Congress and the Presidency. She has also written for FiveThirtyEight.com. Currently, Anne is working on a book manuscript tentatively titled The Evolution of Popular Presidential Communication: Opportunities and Incentives from George Washington to Barack Obama.​

ABOUT THE HISTORY STUDENT POSTER SESSION

The Department of History and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences are pleased to present a poster-session featuring the research of history students at Rowan University.  Part of the Department of History’s annual celebration of President’s Day, this session highlights the research accomplishments of some of Rowan’s best students and will include analyses of topics as diverse as the history of American abolitionism, historical memory and medieval Britain, and imperialism in the Gulf of Aden.

ABOUT THE KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Sean Wilentz is the George Henry Davis Professor of American History at Princeton University.  The Washington Post has declared Wilentz to be “one of the best American historians of his generation,” and he has won numerous national awards. The book that first won him national acclaim was Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class (1984), a multi-award winner at the time of publication and republished with a 20^th anniversary edition in 2004.  The Rise of American Democracy (2005) won the Bancroft Prize for best book in American history and was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.  He is most recently the author of The Politicians and the Egalitarians:  The Hidden History of American Politics (2017).  He has testified before the United States Congress on the issue of presidential impeachment.  He is a former contributing editor to the New Republic and has written frequently for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books, The Nation, Le Monde, and Salon.  He has appeared on numerous radio and television shows including Morning Joe, Fresh Air, Radio Times, and NPR’s Talk of the Nation.  In his spare time, he is the official historian of Bob Dylan’s website, and he has been twice (2004, 2013) nominated for a Grammy for his written work with Dylan.