Gather Here. Go Far

NSU is where success begins. Here professors know their subjects and how to get you ready for a career after you graduate. We empower individuals to become socially responsible global citizens by creating and sustaining a culture of learning and discovery.

Gather Here. Go Far

NSU is where success begins. Here professors know their subjects and how to get you ready for a career after you graduate. We empower individuals to become socially responsible global citizens by creating and sustaining a culture of learning and discovery.

Gather Here. Go Far

NSU is where success begins. Here professors know their subjects and how to get you ready for a career after you graduate. We empower individuals to become socially responsible global citizens by creating and sustaining a culture of learning and discovery.

Gather Here. Go Far

NSU is where success begins. Here professors know their subjects and how to get you ready for a career after you graduate. We empower individuals to become socially responsible global citizens by creating and sustaining a culture of learning and discovery.

Gather Here. Go Far

NSU is where success begins. Here professors know their subjects and how to get you ready for a career after you graduate. We empower individuals to become socially responsible global citizens by creating and sustaining a culture of learning and discovery.

Department of History

Department of History

The Department of History offers baccalaureate degrees in History and Social Studies Education along with a minor in History. These academic programs are provided by six full-time faculty members and several adjunct faculty members.

During most semesters, there are about 100 students majoring in the department's programs (collectively). The department provides instruction to over 1,500 students per year.

Contact Us

Teresa Leep
Administrative Assistant
Wilson Hall 123
918-444-3532
leept@nsuok.edu

Meet the Faculty

Ballenger Lecture 2024

Ballenger Lecture

The Department of History is pleased to present the annual Ballenger Lecture for 2024. This year's invited scholar is Dr. Kristen Oertel, University of Tulsa. Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel is the Mary Frances Barnard Chair of Nineteenth-Century American History at the University of Tulsa. She taught at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, for ten years before arriving at TU in the fall of 2010. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, her M.A. from Binghamton University in New York, and her B.A. from Cornell College in Iowa. She is a native of Kansas City and currently resides in Tulsa with her husband and two children. Kristen Oertel teaches classes on the Civil War and Reconstruction, African-American history, the history of race and gender in America, and the history of sexuality. She writes about how race and gender influenced social and cultural relations in the 19th century, especially during the Civil War era. Her first book, Bleeding Borders, examines how Native Americans, African Americans and women shaped the conflict over slavery on the Kansas-Missouri border before the Civil War. Her second book, Frontier Feminist, narrates the life of Clarina Nichols, a remarkable woman who advocated for temperance, antislavery, and woman’s suffrage in the 19th century. Oertel’s most recent book, Harriet Tubman: Slavery, the Civil War, and Civil Rights in the 19th Century, is a short, accessible biography that chronicles the life of this iconic leader of the Underground Railroad. Oertel’s current research, "Seeking Freedom in Indian Country: Slavery and Black Resistance in Indian Territory, 1830-1861."  focuses on the history of slavery and Black resistance in Indian Territory. Her Ballenger Lecture, The "First" Emancipation Proclamation: Black Rebellion, Freedom, and Removal During the Seminole Wars looks at the intersections of Black and Indigenous history and the various meanings of freedom in the Nineteenth century. 

The Ballenger Lecture is free and open to the public and will be held on Thursday, February 29th at 6:00 pm in Room 407 Wilson Hall. This event is sponsored by the Department of History. 

You can contact Dr. Michelle M. Martin at 918-444-3505 or marti328@nsuok.edu for information.

 

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2021 equity award

The American Historical Association recently bestowed its 2021 Equity Award upon NSU's History Department, recognizing its success recruiting and retaining students from underrepresented groups.

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