Who, besides the indigenous peoples from Asia who crossed the Alaskan land bridge in prehistory, arrived in the Americas before Columbus? The question has fascinated...
Robert Harms, the Henry J. Heinz Professor of History & African Studies, received the Gustav Ranis International Book Prize for best book, Land of Tears: The Exploration...
Marius Kothor, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History and CAS Graduate Affiliate has been awarded the Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) by...
Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar Greg Grandin has been appointed as the Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Grandin, who...
Most Americans don’t know that their morning cup of coffee connects them to the Ottoman Empire. Few are aware that this bygone Muslim state helped to birth Protestantism,...
Russian hackers and internet trolls sought to manipulate American voters throughout the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, as they are doing again in 2020. Their efforts...
Historians don’t just study history. We construct it. We puzzle pieces into meanings. Aided by our instincts and experiences, as well as by our research, we make sense of...
