ITHACA, NY — A talk titled “Managing Ethnic and Religious Difference in the Early English East India Company: The Mughal Siege of Bombay (1689-1690)” will be given at Ithaca College on Thursday, April 5, at 7 p.m. in Textor 101. Free and open to the public, the lecture will be presented by Margaret R. Hunt, the Winkley Professor of History and professor of women’s and...

 ITHACA, NY — The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded a $50,000 grant to two Ithaca College faculty members to examine how students’ use of wikis can help them reach and cross conceptual thresholds in their understanding of historical knowledge.

Michael Smith, associate professor of history and environmental studies and sciences, and Ali Erkan,...