Professor Pop-Up: History & Legal Studies

Meet Dr. Juandrea Bates, Associate Professor of History and Legal Studies at Winona State University.  She created a class for WSU students to learn how age has shaped children’s perspectives throughout history. And in the process, her class inspired her to pursue and...

From Classroom to Legal Experience

The Legal Studies Department gave 15 Winona State University students the opportunity to make a difference in someone else’s life by helping prevent certain legal cases from being an obstacle to employment and housing.   Dr. Gregory Richard, an Associate Professor of...

Regan Holm ’19

Name: Regan Holm | Class of 2019 | Major: History | Post Graduation Plans: Aspiring Educator  Words of Wisdom Don’t miss your deadlines – but don’t miss out on life too. College will be over before you know it.  How Did Scholarships...

What Makes Social Change Happen? Courage!

Throughout the course of this trip, we’ve met some pretty amazing people with amazing stories of what it was like living in the 1960s. The Civil Rights Movement was a hard time to live through for black and white people. The violence was staggering and it’s a good...

Mass Communication: Then and Now

One of the things that made the Civil Rights Movement operate well was the media and it’s still effective for today’s movements. They had newspapers, photographers, and the radio, all of which were good at motivating people. The newspapers provided full stories and...