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Beverly Gage, a professor of history and American studies, received the Pulitzer Prize for her revelatory biography of the late FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.

When Lorgia García-Peña became a professor, she found herself in the unworkable bargain of so many scholars of color. The solution was community.

The English department will change its major and minor requirements to make them more “appealing and accessible,” it announced Friday. The department will adopt “Historical Breadth” courses in favor of survey courses. Specific identity and culture categories will also replace three former required class categories — Identities, Communities and Social Practice; Transnationalism and Textual Circulation;...

Horizon Scholarship winner hopes to help minority voices be heard through art - The Brock News, a news source for Brock University

Born in 1585, Catalina de Erauso led one of the most wildly fantastic lives of any woman in history. Refusing to be regimented into the quiet habits of a nuns life, she escaped from a Basque convent at age fourteen dressed as a man, and continuing her deception, ventured to Peru and Chile as a soldier in the Spanish army. After mistakenly killing her own brother in a duel, she roamed the Andean highlands, becoming a gambler and a killer, and always just evading the grasp of the law. Distinguish...