Official account of the @XavierUniv Department of History.
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Just this past year, 92 percent (!!) of our students who applied to medical school were admitted—the highest rate for Xavier students in recent years.
MORE: xavier.edu/now/2019/cas-news…
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How cool is this? Digging through some micro-film archives at @cincylibrary and came across a political cartoon for the 1st Crosstown Shootout in 1928.
Who knew at the time this would turn into one of the biggest rivalries in College Basketball?
@GoBearcatsMBB @XavierMBB
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On Nov. 16, 1989, six Jesuit priests at the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA) were assassinated by the Salvadoran military.
On Friday, we reflected on the 30th anniversary of their sacrifice with a “Prayer Service for Justice.”
Learn more: xavier.edu/jesuitresource/re…
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This is what it looks like when you're a prof @XavierU and you take your @SienaCollege alum dad to a basketball game! @XavierMBB @SienaMBB #LetsGoX @XavierHistory
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Argentinean journalist / author @SoleVallejos speaks on feminist social media activism in her xountry at @XavierU. #NiUnaMenos
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Starting Friday, University Library will be an official write-in location for @NaNoWriMo. We'll be hosting a mid-month writing marathon 11/17. For more details: bit.ly/2WpdacK. #NaNoWriMo #NaNoWriMo2019 @cincylibrary @jessicastrawser
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The only College GameDay sign that will matter, ever.
ALT Photo from the set of College GameDay, looking at fans and a sign that reads "You people are blocking the Library." Copy of tweet reads "The only college gameday sign that will matter, ever,"
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Europe experienced a population boom in the centuries following contact with the new world thanks to imported crops like potatoes and sugar, while the Americas suffered a massive population crash. bit.ly/31aoZUO
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Counter-terrorism experts are saying that the US's withdrawal of support for Syria's Kurds could pave the way for ISIS's return. Learn how this terrorist group has survived before: bit.ly/2FYCqgU
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Witches, the occult, ghosts, and why we love all that stuff, anyway. Our Halloween roundup! bit.ly/2mUuI31
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Today, we remember the Tlatelolco Massacre: on October 2nd, 1968, Mexican armed forces opened fire on peaceful civilian protesters, the vast majority college and high-school-aged activists in #Mexico City. More than a thousand were killed. #OnThisDay bit.ly/2BuEEUd
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Knowing the earth is round is one thing — traveling all the way around it is another. Relive the perilous first circumnavigation of the globe: origins.osu.edu/milestones/m…
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"It's too often the case that difficult elements of our past are swept under the rug." -Fr. Graham
Our community continues to discuss Xavier's complex history, including that of Bishop Edward Fenwick and his slaveholding past.
READ: bit.ly/2ks2Lyl
As Xavier University grapples with connection to slavery, students work to reconcile past, present bit.ly/2kHip9n
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Prof Walker Gollar interviewed in #UniversityArchives for @WCPO story "As @XavierU grapples w/ connection to slavery, students work to reconcile past, present" to air at 4 today. bit.ly/2kLOSLN
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Our photograph exhibition celebrates WWI service members. 'Until We Meet Again: Cincinnati Portraits from World War I' is open! This free exhibition is part of
@FOTOFOCUSCINCY w/special thanks to them & @cincylibrary: bit.ly/2JXCEbh! Don't miss it! Open thru Sept 29!
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If you've seen today's #GoogleDoodle about botanist Ynés Mexía (1870-1938) and want to see some of her specimens first-hand, the U.S. National Herbarium has digitized many of them--including this one she collected in California in 1929. #BecauseOfHerstory
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Who's reading @XavierU scholars? This past month 170 institutions across 94 countries! Submit your scholarship to eXhibit - bit.ly/2Zwn8J2 @XU_CAS @XavierHistory @XUCommDept @XavierMBA
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"I will be candid here because I must be. If I'm not, I worry you might wonder what I stand for..."
Fr. Graham shared a powerful message to the newest class of Musketeers on Thursday at Cintas Center.
MORE: bit.ly/WelcomeSpeech19
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The AHA has sent letters to the CEOs of Hilton Worldwide, Hyatt Hotels Corporation, and Marriott International, hotel chains the Association regularly uses for its annual meetings, supporting their refusal to be temporary detention centers in ICE raids. historians.org/news-and-advo…