News
News items about the History Department. For a complete list of News, please go to the Newsroom. To submit an item, please contact JJ Boehm, director of media and community relations, at ext. 4055
October 29, 2024
SVSU to host expert in vaccines and history
Since the earliest inoculations in colonial America, there has been controversy surrounding the practice of using disease to provide immunity. Saginaw Valley State University will host a lecture on 300 years of vaccine controversy with guest speaker Robert D. Johnston, professor history at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
September 24, 2018
Panel discussion at SVSU to engage in 'proactive conversation' over free speech, Confederate flag
Saginaw Valley State University will host a panel of educators and students examining the Confederate flag's history and society's ongoing conversation about its symbolism in modern America.
September 17, 2018
IMLS Announces Grants of $19 Million for U.S. Museums
University Center, Mich. -- The Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum at Saginaw Valley State University was awarded a $79,148 Museums for America grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
August 6, 2018
SVSU history professor authors book on Cold War-era polygraph use
John Baesler, associate professor of history at Saginaw Valley State University, has written his first book, examining the topic of polygraph use during and after the Cold War.
July 26, 2017
March 2017 Faculty profile - John Baesler
John Baesler was a boy in Bensheim, West Germany in the 1980s when his family — watching a crime drama on TV — heard a knock at the front door one evening.
April 5, 2017
SVSU, Saginaw libraries offer family history-writing workshop
A collaboration between Saginaw Valley State University and the Public Libraries of Saginaw will help individuals better understand and preserve their family histories through writing.
March 20, 2017
SVSU history professor researches Cold War-era U.S. military experience in his native Germany
John Baesler was a boy in Bensheim, West Germany in the 1980s when his family — watching a crime drama on TV — heard a knock at the front door one evening. On the other side were two members of his family he met for the first time that night: His father’s niece and her daughter, who had arrived there after a daring escape from then-Communist-occupied East Germany.
December 7, 2016
Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to speak at SVSU in January
Over his career, Holder was appointed to various law enforcement-related positions by four U.S. presidents from both sides of the political aisle. Most recently, President Barack Obama nominated Holder as U.S. attorney general.
November 15, 2016
SVSU team makes the case, wins moot court competition, and headed to nationals
Seven months of determined preparation for a team of two Saginaw Valley State University students resulted in winning a regional moot court competition in Chicago. The win earned teammates Connor Hughes and Madison Laskowski an invitation to the national tournament in Gulfport, Florida in January 2017.
October 27, 2016
SVSU serves as steward to 19th century photos important to histories of Saginaw, black Americans, and photography itself
Wallace and William Goodridge are not alive now, to say the least. They died more than a century ago. Yet the nearly 140-year-old photograph that froze their moment in time together in 1879 breathes with life today in SVSU's archives.
January 15, 2016
SVSU students compete in national moot court tourney in California
Four Saginaw Valley State University students from SVSU’s nationally-ranked moot court program are competing in the American Collegiate Moot Court Association national tournament hosted by California State University-Long Beach Friday and Saturday, Jan. 15-16.
June 26, 2015
SVSU student to study French in Quebec as part of Morley internship program
A Saginaw Valley State University student will spend part of the summer in Montreal as part of a new fellowship program that will lead to an internship at Morley. Alan Rifenbark, a French and history double major from Bad Axe, will live and study at the University of Quebec at Montreal from July 5 to August 14.
February 5, 2014
SVSU joins national honor society for history
Saginaw Valley State University’s history department recently announced that the National Board of Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society has approved the establishment of a chapter at Saginaw Valley State University.
Contact Us
jbaesler@svsu.edu
(989) 964-7142(989) 964-7142
Department Chair
John Baesler
Office
Brown 332