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The Department of History produces world-class scholarship, contributes to meaningful public discourse, and educates students across all UConn campuses.

Department Highlights

Recent News

Fiona Vernal work supporting oral history in CT featured in UConn Today article

May 15, 2025

In collaboration with Connecticut Humanities and the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, Fiona Vernal has made an online platform TheirStory accessible to CT organizations and residents to support the creation of oral history collections. Vernal began working with TheirStory creator Zack Ellis in 2022 working on a project on West Indian, African American, and […]

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Helen Rozwadowski Interviewed for Blue History Network Podcast

May 9, 2025

Professor Helen Rozwadowski was interviewed for the Blue History Network Podcast, which is now up on Spotify and the network’s website. In this podcast, Professor Rozwadowski delves into “a wide variety of subjects, from oceanography in the Nineteenth century to how we, in the present, bring ocean history to the attention of the public“. She […]

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Manisha Sinha Quoted In Guardian Article about First 100 Days

May 6, 2025

On May 2nd, Professor Manisha Sinha was quoted in the Guardian article, “Trump 100 days: White House action plan makes Project 2025 look mild“. The article, written by Rachel Leingang, looks at the role that the policies outlined in Project 2025 are playing the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second presidential term. To read […]

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Research and Scholarship

Our faculty are nationally-recognized scholars with expertise that covers a wide range of time periods, geographic regions, and fields of history.

Recent Faculty Publications

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Congratulations to Professor Frank Costigliola, whose recent biography of US diplomat and strategist George Kennan was just named a co-winner of the Sharon Harris Book Award from the UConn Humanities Institute.

The book has been warmly received by scholars and the reading public, including an enthusiastic recent review in The New York Review of Books. An unpaywalled version of the review can be found on our website.

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Congratulations to Professor Frank Costigliola, whose recent biography of US diplomat and strategist George Kennan was just named a co-winner of the Sharon Harris Book Award from the UConn Humanities Institute. The book has been warmly received by scholars and the reading public, including an enthusiastic recent review in The New York Review of Books. An unpaywalled version of the review can be found on our website.

Congratulations to Professor Frank Costigliola, whose recent biography of US diplomat and strategist George Kennan was just named a co-winner of the Sharon Harris Book Award from the UConn Humanities Institute.

The book has been warmly received by scholars and the reading public, including an enthusiastic recent review in The New York Review of Books. An unpaywalled version of the review can be found on our website. ...

On the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War, a special issue of the Journal of Vietnamese Studies offers thirteen original translations of Vietnamese songs, poems, memoirs, and fiction about the end of the war and its aftermath. Co-edited by Nu-Anh Tran and Trinh M. Luu, the collection is ideal for teaching at the college- and high school-level. Browse the issue at our website

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On the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War, a special issue of the Journal of Vietnamese Studies offers thirteen original translations of Vietnamese songs, poems, memoirs, and fiction about the end of the war and its aftermath. Co-edited by Nu-Anh Tran and Trinh M. Luu, the collection is ideal for teaching at the college- and high school-level. Browse the issue at our website

On the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War, a special issue of the Journal of Vietnamese Studies offers thirteen original translations of Vietnamese songs, poems, memoirs, and fiction about the end of the war and its aftermath. Co-edited by Nu-Anh Tran and Trinh M. Luu, the collection is ideal for teaching at the college- and high school-level. Browse the issue at our website ...

Later this week!

This Friday at 4 pm, the UConn History Department will be hosting our annual Prize Day. This event will take place in the Dodd Konover Auditorium, with a reception to follow.

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Later this week! This Friday at 4 pm, the UConn History Department will be hosting our annual Prize Day. This event will take place in the Dodd Konover Auditorium, with a reception to follow.

Later this week!

This Friday at 4 pm, the UConn History Department will be hosting our annual Prize Day. This event will take place in the Dodd Konover Auditorium, with a reception to follow. ...

Tomorrow! 4/23, at 6 pm

Manisha Sinha will be presenting "The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic" at the University of Arkansas

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Tomorrow! 4/23, at 6 pm Manisha Sinha will be presenting "The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic" at the University of Arkansas

Tomorrow! 4/23, at 6 pm

Manisha Sinha will be presenting "The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic" at the University of Arkansas ...