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The University of Oregon History Department is a group of scholars and teachers with a passion for understanding the past in all its dimensions and committed to conveying their scholarship to students, the public, and fellow historians. Our distinguished and innovative faculty includes award-winning and internationally-recognized scholars and teachers.

With twenty-seven full-time faculty and several participating and adjunct faculty, we offer courses in the history of the Ancient world, Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and colonial America and the United States. These courses cover a variety of themes, including cultural, economic, environmental, gender, intellectual, legal, medical, political, and social history. History majors learn about the variety of human experience over time and, in so doing, acquire analytical and writing skills that prepare them for success in numerous areas of work and study. History graduate students become immersed in the latest scholarship and develop research projects that contribute in significant ways to an understanding of the past. And they play a vital role in the department’s teaching mission as well.

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    The Adoption History Project
    (University of Oregon, 2003-06) Herman, Ellen
    Adoption is a significant public and private issue. This site is based on the conviction that history is an indispensable resource for understanding the personal, political, legal, social, scientific, and human dimensions of this particular form of kinship. The Adoption History Project is devoted to making adoption history accessible and interesting to visitors who may not be aware that adoption has a history at all. This site introduces the history of child adoption in the United States by profiling people, organizations, topics, and studies that shaped adoption during the twentieth century. I hope individuals with personal or professional ties to adoption who are curious about adoption’s past will find the site relevant to their concerns. It is also intended for students and teachers interested in social welfare, the human sciences, and the history of children and families in the modern United States.
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    Studies in Roman Civic Patronage
    (2013-07-18) Nicols, John
    This is a companion archive to Civic Patronage in the Roman Empire, published by Brill in the fall of 2013. The contents include: low resolution images of the most important inscriptions; supplementary studies in civic patronage that were deemed too marginal or too speculative for the print version; a database including all or most patrons of communities, the communities, benefactions, and references to standard scholarly publications like PIR or RE. This database has been broken down into several segments. In its entirety it is too large for standard monitors. As posted this database is a 'read-only' PDF. Also available on request is an Excel spreadsheet that can be manipulated and sorted to address particular questions.
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    Patronum cooptare, patrocinium deferre: Lex Malacitana c. 61
    (Hermann Bohlaus Nachfolger, 1979) Nicols, John
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    On the Standard Size of the Ordo Decurionum
    (Hermann Bohlaus, 1988) Nicols, John
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    Patrons of Greek Cities in the Early Principate
    (Dr. Rudolf Habelt GMBH, 1990) Nicols, John
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    Mapping the Crisis of the Third Century
    (Brill, 2007) Nicols, John
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    Idea of Rome, Idea of Europe
    (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005) Nicols, John
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    Antonia and Sejanus
    (Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1975) Nicols, John
    The following discussion will consist of three parts: I.) the alleged re-lationship between Antonia and Sejanus before 31, II.) the tradition thatstresses Antonia's importance in the fall of Sejanus, and III.) based on thecondusions of the first two sections, a reconstruction of the process bywhich Antonia became associated with the events of 31.It will here be argued that Antonia did not, in all probability, provideTiberius with the critical information about the intentions of Sejanus. Herimportance in the tradition is an invention of the Claudian and FlavianPeriods.
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    Patronum cooptare, patrocinium deferre: Lex Malacitana
    (ZRG Rom. Abteilung, Volume 105, 1979) Nicols, John
    The process by which an individual became a civic patron is regulated in several of the municipal codes found in Roman Spain.
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    Hospitium and Political Friendship in the Late Republic
    (Journal of Roman Archaeology L.L.C., supplement 43, 2001-06) Nicols, John
    During the Republic, the relationship between Roman senators and peregrines, both individuals and communities, was regulated especially by hospitium. Generally speaking, hospitium involves a personal connection developing out of a guest-host experience. This notion of reception in the home of another and the establishment of mutual protection is a fundamental feature of Greek and Roman social history.1 In the Roman concept, as in other ancient cultures, hospitium belonged to mos; that is, it was not regulated by human law, but was sacred (hospitium…quod sanctissimum est, Cic. Verr. II 2.110), being guaranteed by the gods to serve the interests of mankind. For my purpose here, the primary interest of this material lies in the interaction between two Roman institutions, hospitium and patrocinium; between the hospes/patron, on one hand, and the members of the local and provincial eliteson the other. The exercise of hospitium was a central element not only in the day-to-day administrative practice, but provided also structure that allowed imperial and local interests to be reconciled. This paper examines two components of hospitium: first, we shall look at a number of specific cases in the late republic and then examine some of the epigraphical manifestations of the phenomenon. The most useful single document for such an analysis is Cicero’s “Verrine Orations”. No other single literary source provides as much information as does this work. Moreover, though the audience as “virtual”, Cicero had to remain true to its expectations about how hospitium worked. Though there is clearly some oratorical exaggeration, the description of both the positive and negative aspects of hospitium is constructed as a historically consistent context whole.
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    Sallust and the Greek Historical Tradition
    (Regina Books, Claremont, California, 1999) Nicols, John
    The Roman historian Sallust was very familiar with Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War. The argument of this article is that Saullust revealed his erudition by demonstrating his knowledge of rather obscure episodes in the latter's history.
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    Civic Religion and Civic Patronage
    (2004) Nicols, John
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    Patrons of Roman Cities--database
    (2007-08-20T18:16:43Z) Nicols, John
    This is a collection of epigraphically attested civic patrons known from the late Roman Republic through the mid-3rd Century AD.
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    German History and World History ca. 1800
    (2006-10-17T17:42:51Z) McNeely, Ian F.
    Conference paper for a panel on the German Sattelzeit (period around 1800) arguing that German historians should embrace the methods and concerns of world historians and laying out possible research agendas that would result.
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    The Renaissance Academies between Science and the Humanities
    (2006-06-25T18:05:10Z) McNeely, Ian F.
    A synthetic analysis of the academies of the Renaissance and early modern periods, emphasizing their importance as an alternative to the European university and as a bridge between the "two cultures" of science and the humanities.
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    Pliny and the Patronage of Communities
    (Stuttgart [etc.] F. Steiner [etc.], 1980) Nicols, John