Topic: history — The Kenyon Collegian

Section: News

Bomb survivor details experience, life story

Shigeko Sasamori was only 14 years old when an atomic bomb exploded two miles away from her in Hiroshima, Japan. On April 11,… Read More

by Betül Aydin
April 18, 2019
Section: Features

‘Wild Men’: the circus performers buried in Mount Vernon

On March 17, 1905, hundreds attended the funeral of Hiram Davis, famed circus performer, at Mound View Cemetery in Mount Vernon. A train had… Read More

by Dante Kanter
April 18, 2019
Section: News

Alum gives career advice, talks value of history major

As a part of the Department of History’s spring majors’ meeting on April 2, investigative journalist Bryn Stole ’11 spoke on his experiences… Read More

by Daisy Dow
April 4, 2019
Section: News

Talk sparks conversation about fraternities and gender roles

Fraternity expert Nicholas Syrett and photographer Andrew Moisey gave a joint talk on Feb. 7 about The American Fraternity, an exhibition of Moisey’s… Read More

by Ellie Klee
February 14, 2019
Section: News

Guest speaker discusses her work on Iraqi Jews in Israel

On Wednesday, Orit Bashkin, professor of modern Middle Eastern history at the University of Chicago, presented on the findings of her most recent book,… Read More

by Tommy Johnson
January 24, 2019
Section: News

In a student-led trip, American studies majors visit Alabama

On the first weekend of December, nine senior American studies majors visited the Equal Justice Initiative’s Legacy Museum and National Memorial for Peace and… Read More

by Cortney johnson
December 13, 2018
Section: Features

A thorough look at Kenyon’s historic and forbidden towers

From a vista south of the Brown Family Environmental (BFEC), the spire of Old Kenyon Residence Hall rises just above the trees that… Read More

by Cameron Austin
November 8, 2018
Section: Features

Barn Tour celebrates Knox County’s architectural heritage

In 2016, Karin and Kenneth Kirk hired a crew of Amish builders to construct a new barn in place of the original, a dilapidated… Read More

by Elizabeth Stanley
September 13, 2018
Section: Features

Famed Johnny Appleseed planted roots in Mount Vernon

Like Kenyon, Mount Vernon has had its share of famous (and sometimes infamous) characters. John Chapman, most famously known as Johnny Appleseed,… Read More

by Dante Kanter
September 6, 2018
Section: Features

“Monks, Mongols, Manchus” caps off Ruth Dunnell’s career

Before Associate Professor of History Nurten Kilic-Schubel, the director of the Asian and Middle Eastern studies program, had heard of Kenyon College, she… Read More

by Dante Kanter
May 3, 2018