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Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

Keeping History Alive at Old-Timers Day

Keeping History Alive at Old-Timers’ Day

By Robert DePaolo June 27, 2014

I’ve never had the fortune of making it to Cooperstown, but I’ve been lucky enough to attend one of the next best collections of baseball history: Old-Timers’ Day at Yankee Stadium. For the...

CARLSON: Applying Past to Future

CARLSON: Applying Past to Future

By Kent Carlson April 25, 2014

In his Easter vigil homily, Pope Francis discussed Jesus’ call to his disciples to return to Galilee. It symbolizes the return home and the return to one’s origins after a long journey. In the Christian...

Forgotten Female Figures

By Nicole Jarvis March 21, 2014

We are quickly approaching the end of March, and with it, the end of Women’s History month. The close of this month reminds me that, as a history major, I end up studying a lot of the same sorts of things....

Beauty of Byzantium

By Nicole Jarvis January 24, 2014

For many students, their knowledge of the history of art begins with the pristine marble of the Greco-Romans and jumps straight to the developments in realism and perspective that dominated the Renaissance....

The Drinks You Should Study With

The Drinks You Should Study With

By Julia Kieserman and Julia Kieserman December 12, 2013

FINALS. You are desperately searching for any source of caffeine like a dying man in a desert searching for a drop of water, and you're utterly convinced it is the key to all of your success in school...

Making Waves

By Mariah Byrne September 13, 2013

The loss of WGTB’s broadcast signal is a telling story, one indicative of political divides in the 1970s that embroiled the nation and campus radio’s place at the forefront of that unrest. After...

Make Waitlists History

By The Editorial Board September 6, 2013

If you were looking to complete your history requirement in the School of Foreign Service this semester, there’s a good chance you will hit some roadblocks. The SFS requires students to take three...

This Day In Hoya History: Deja Vu?

This Day In Hoya History: Deja Vu?

By KP and KP September 6, 2013

[dmalbum path="/wp-content/uploads/dm-albums/TDIHH 9-6-70/"/] Though it might be a bit late to say this, I'm still going to: Welcome (back) to the Hilltop, Hoyas! Quite a bit has occurred during our summer...

Keeping History Alive: Partners in Preservation

Keeping History Alive: Partners in Preservation

By KP and KP April 24, 2013

The time has come to cast your vote and let history continue to flourish in the Washington, D.C. Metro Area. Voting has just opened for Partners in Preservation, an American Express and National Trust...

Today in Hoya History: Leavey Center Suggestions

Today in Hoya History: Leavey Center Suggestions

By KP and KP January 31, 2013

On this chilly 31st of January, you’ve probably been thinking about the upcoming weekend, the bipolar weather we’ve been having, whether Georgetown is going to crush St. John’s on Saturday (answer:...

CHESS: Historical Lens Sharpens Today’s View

By Ethan Chess January 18, 2013

One of my professors recently quipped that “history doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” The American political landscape is filled with a wide variety of methods of analyzing its fickle and...

War on the Potomac

By Peter Brigham November 15, 2012

"For Georgetown itself, the war had proven to be the most serious threat to its survival as an institution.” So wrote history professor emeritus Fr. R. Emmett Curran, S.J., of the American Civil...

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