The history department is excited to announce that Global America, The United States in the Twentieth Century (Oxford, 2018) has just been published. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/global-america-9780190279905?cc=us&lang=en&# Global America tells the story of how Americans were swept up in the swift-moving currents of twentieth-century world history. The book grew out of the life work and scholarship of the late historian Alan… Continue Reading
Events
Dr. Matthew Bender Receives Contract for Upcoming Book for 2019
Congratulations to Dr. Matthew Bender on receiving a contract for his monograph, entitled Water Brings No Harm: Management Knowledge and the Struggle for the Waters of Kilimanjaro. The book will be published in 2019 in the prestigious series, New African Histories at Ohio University Press. Dr. Bender’s project was supported by the Gitenstein-Hart Sabbatical Prize… Continue Reading
Professor Emeritus Daniel W. Crofts Wins Nau Book Prize
The John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia has named Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery as the winner of the 2017 Bobbie and John Nau Book Prize in American Civil War Era History. The History Department congratulates Professor Emeritus Dr. Daniel W. Crofts on this incredible achievement.… Continue Reading
The History Department’s Spring 2017 Lecture Series: Professor René Alexander Orquiza
Professor René Alexander Orquiza presents “Progressive Sustainability in the Periphery: the introduction of American Agronomy and Cooking in Philippine Public Schools, 1902-1920.” Continue Reading
History Department’s Spring 2017 Lecture Series: Professor Robert McGreevey
Professor Robert McGreevey and his Trenton Research Seminar panel present “Toward a More Just City: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Education and Housing in Trenton, 1943-1973.” Continue Reading
Global Afghanistan: An Intellectual Perspective this Friday!
On Friday, April 29, 3:30–5 pm in Social Science 228, Jawan Rasikh, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania, will give a talk sponsored by the History Department on “Global Afghanistan: An Intellectual Perspective.” Please see the attached flyer for details. I hope you will take advantage of this rare opportunity to hear about current historical archival… Continue Reading
This Thursday, please join us for a panel discussion with Professor Emeritus Dr. Daniel Crofts in celebration of his new book!
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Documentary Film on Afghanistan this Thursday!!
On Thursday March 31 at 7pm in Physics 101 the History Department and Eurasia/Middle East Society will co-sponsor the film screening of “Frame by Frame”. This acclaimed documentary film was made by four Afghan photojournalists following the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001, when a free press emerged and a photography revolution was born.… Continue Reading
“Taking Nicolas Bourbaki Personally: How the most intriguing mathematician in modern history tried (and failed, twice) to join the American Mathematical Society.”
Thursday, February 11 @ 3:30pm – SCP 117 Michael J. Barany – Princeton University Nicolas Bourbaki is widely considered one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century, and is arguably the most intriguing mathematician in modern history. Part of his intrigue comes from the fact that while Bourbaki was a prolific author and… Continue Reading
Wednesday Sept. 23 — Dr. Hakim Adi, Pan-Africanism and Communism presentation
Please join us on Wednesday, September 23, as we welcome Dr. Hakim Adi, Professor of History at the England’s University of Chichester. Professor Adi will speak on Pan-Africanism, one of the important international social movements of the twentieth century, and its connection to communism. The presentation will take place from 6:30pm to 8pm in the Library Auditorium and… Continue Reading