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May 10, 2017
Francesca Trivellato, newly named as the Barton M. Biggs Professor of History, is a historian of early modern Europe and the Mediterranean, whose interests revolve around a...
May 10, 2017
Once again, Donald Trump has done something that no president before him dared to do. This time, he has fired an F.B.I. director engaged in an active and continuing...
May 5, 2017
How we eat is both ubiquitous and semi-invisible — it is everywhere around us, but we usually don’t think about it as a social marker. Food, however, lets us see who we are...
April 26, 2017
Gil Joseph has been chosen by the Committee on Teaching and Learning to receive the 2017 Harwood F. Byrnes/Richard B. Sewall Teaching Prize for distinguished undergraduate...
April 25, 2017
The Urban History Association’s blog, The Metropole, interviewed history Ph.D. candidate, Nichole Nelson, about her dissertation research, teaching, advice for graduate...
April 17, 2017
David Shimer, of Davenport College, is majoring in history with a focus on Russia and Eastern Europe. He first developed a passion for the region while in high school, where...
April 17, 2017
Emily Yankowitz is a history major with particular interest in Anglo-American relations after the American Revolution, early republic politicians and historians, and public...