News

May 2, 2014
Join us on Friday, May 2nd as we listen to twelve of the Department of History’s most accomplished seniors present their Senior Essays. This event will be a fun, informal,...
April 29, 2014
Six members of the faculty were honored with awards for outstanding undergraduate teaching at a campus ceremony on April 29, including American Studies and History professor...
April 25, 2014
Max Fraser has been awarded the Frost Prize for the best article in the journal American Art in 2013.  The selection committee praised his article “Hands Off the Machine: ...
April 17, 2014
Two of our colleagues are co-winners of the MacMillan Center’s Gaddis Smith International Book Prize.  Fabian Drixler won the prize for his book Mabiki:  Infanticide and...
April 16, 2014
One of our current graduate students and one of our former graduate students were honored at the recent meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Atlanta. Alice...
April 2, 2014
Prof. Mikhail’s article, “Unleashing the Beast: Animals, Energy, and the Economy of Labor in Ottoman Egypt,” American Historical Review 118, 2 (2013) won the Alice...
March 13, 2014
Read the review of David Brion Davis’ The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation, by Drew Gilpin Faust in the latest issue of The New York Review of Books.