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Adena Barnette-Miller

Ashbrook Ambassador in West Virginia receives another award for her history teaching

During her more than 20 years of teaching, Adena Barnette-Miller has earned West Virginia History Teacher of the Year (2021), James Madison Foundation Congressional Fellow (2019) and West Virginia DAR Outstanding Teacher of American History (2016) honors – to name just a few.

The Old Hickory Chapter (in Ripley, West Virginia) of the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) Women in American History Award in October is the most recent of her many…

Logan Rex

AU grad appointed to TourismOhio Advisory Board

Logan Rex appreciates how his professors at Ashland University helped guide him into a profession that was right for him.

Since graduating from AU in 2018 with a degree in history/political science, the former Ashbrook Scholar has worked in museums, starting with the Allen County Museum and Historical Society in his hometown of Lima, Ohio.

“I had numerous positions at the Allen County Museum, including working in the education wing and…

Carrie Huber

James Madison Fellow has 'learned so much' just two classes into MAHG program at AU

Once Erik Iverson found out that fellow history/government teacher Carrie Huber was named this year’s James Madison Memorial Foundation Fellow for South Dakota, he told her about Ashland University’s Master of American History and Government program (MAHG).  

The James Madison Foundation awards its fellows with $24,000 toward graduate education, which Iverson, South Dakota’s 2006 recipient, used at AU. As funding permits, the Foundation awards one…

Kimberly Huffman

MAHG graduate wins 2023 American Civic Education Teacher Award

When she first started at Ashland University, Kimberly Huffman had many of the same experiences most freshmen have. 

She called home every day the first week, often crying that she didn’t think she would make it in college.  

Eventually, she realized she could handle it, loved her classes and developed lifelong friends.  

“And the university’s food is the best,” Huffman said with a big smile.  

However, Huffman was far from a…

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Six state winners of prestigious History Teacher of the Year honor have ties to AU

ASHLAND, Ohio – Six state winners of The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History’s History Teacher of the Year award for 2023 are either graduates or current students of Ashland University’s Master of American History and Government (MAHG)/Master of Arts with a Specialization in Teaching American History and Government (MASTAGH) programs. The state winners were announced at the end of July.

The six…

Yoe Suárez

Political refugee and independent journalist describes life in Cuba to crowd at Ashland University

You are at an ATM when a car pulls up and two people inside order you to get in it.

When you ask for identification, they say they are police officers, and you have to follow their orders.

Everything goes black because they put a hood over your head as soon as you get in, take you to an unfamiliar house and don’t free you until they have threatened and interrogated you for several hours.

Welcome to Cuba.

Those in attendance…

Alex Beres

Lessons learned from AU lead Beres to job as Clinton County Port Authority director

A constant of human history, no matter the technological and moral advances, is that a decision in the real world is never made where you have all the information you need.

This insight has been incredibly helpful to Alex Beres, a 2006 Ashland University graduate.

“A great lesson from some of the courses I had at Ashland was that never was there a leader who acted with perfect knowledge,” Beres said. “I try not to approach any subject matter…

Chris Mather

MAHG grad named first site manager of Colorado historical site

Unlike many students who have gone through Ashland University’s Master of Arts in American History and Government program (MAHG), Chris Mather isn’t a social studies teacher.

Mather works for the National Park Service (NPS).

“While the MAHG program is generally focused toward secondary school social studies teachers, I believe this program can be a benefit to anyone who is involved with government functions, acts as a steward to our public…

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2022 MAHG graduate earns Fulbright Roving Scholar award for 2023-24 academic year

ASHLAND, Ohio – Larry Dorenkamp, who graduated with a master’s degree in American history and government from Ashland University in May 2022, has earned a prestigious Fulbright Roving Scholar in America Studies award, the Fulbright Program announced recently.

This Roving Scholar award affords Dorenkamp the opportunity to go to Norway and spend the 2023-24 academic year there holding workshops for secondary school students, their teachers and higher…

Cass Ponzi

Ashland University grad student/employee Cass Ponzi competing in Miss USA program

Picture the movie “Miss Congeniality,” specifically the scenes of Sandra Bullock’s character, tomboy FBI agent Gracie Hart, learning things she never dreamed of doing - dressing, walking and talking like a pageant contestant.

Before she goes undercover as “Miss New Jersey” after a terrorist threatens to bomb the fictional Miss United States event, Hart struggles mightily in her preparation with a pageant coach.

Ashland University student/…

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