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History In Summer

History In Summer

With 18 online courses to choose from, you can learn history anywhere this summer. More here…

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History SOAR Gateway

The History SOAR Gateway is intended for incoming first-year and transfer students interested in the History Major or Certificate or in exploring course options in History and History of Science.

History Newsletter

History Department Newsletter

The 2022-23 History Department newsletter, “The Past In The Present” is available now! More here…

Department News


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    Professor Marla Ramirez Won the Oral History Association’s Article Award

    Professor Marla Ramirez won the Oral History Association’s Article Award for her essay titled, “Gendered banishment: Rewriting Mexican repatriation through a transgenerational oral history methodology.” This award was created to recognize an article or essay …

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    Alum Tamara Feinstein Publishes New Book

    Alum Tamara Feinstein (Ph.D., 2013) recently published a new book titled, The Fate of Peruvian Democracy: Political Violence, Human Rights, and the Legal Left. Description: Tamara Feinstein investigates the bloody Shining Path conflict’s effect on …

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    Ashley Brown Interviewed on the Bloomberg Businessweek Podcast

    Professor Ashley Brown was recently interviewed on the Bloomberg Businessweek Podcast to discuss her book Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson. During her segment, Brown discusses what first inspired her to dive …

  • Book Cover: Europe’s Welfare Traditions Since 1500: Reform Without End

    Alumnus Thomas McStay Adams Publishes New Book

    Alumnus Thomas McStay Adams (Ph.D. 1972) published his two-volume work Europe’s Welfare Traditions Since 1500: Reform Without End in February of this year. Description: Tracing the interwoven traditions of modern welfare states in Europe over …

  • Book Cover: Indigenizing the Cold War: The Border Patrol Police and Nation-Building in Thailand

    Alum Sinae Hyun Publishes New Book

    Former Ph.D. student Sinae Hyun recently published a new book titled Indigenizing the Cold War: The Border Patrol Police and Nation-Building in Thailand (University of Hawaii Press, 2023). Description The Border Patrol Police (BPP) of …

  • Book Cover: Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism

    Alumnus Daniel G. Hummel Publishes New Book

    Former Ph.D. student Daniel G. Hummel recently published a new book titled The Rise and Fall of Dispensationalism: How the Evangelical Battle over the End Times Shaped a Nation (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2023). …

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