Examining the past. Documenting the present. Informing the future.
The Department of History produces world-class scholarship, contributes to meaningful public discourse, and educates students across all UConn campuses.
Department Highlights
Recent News
Manisha Sinha’s Book Named as One of Best Feminist Books of 2024
MS. Magazine has named Manisha Sinha‘s book The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920 as one of the top feminist books of 2024. Karla Strand, a gender and women’s studies librarian, reviews Sinha’s book as: “With this groundbreaking volume, renowned historian Manisha Sinha offers a critical reexamination of the Reconstruction era. […]
[Read More]Sergio Luzzatto Interviewed About New Book and Awarded Frulia Storia Award
In 2024, Professor Sergio Luzzatto published his book, Primo Levi e i suoi compagni. In this book, “Sergio Luzzatto returns to examine the figure of Primo Levi and reconstruct the story behind his writing, following the path that from leads the characters of Survival in Auschwitz to the real identity of his deportation companions, the European […]
[Read More]Primo Levi e i suoi compagni
Donzelli Editore, 2024
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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
Primo Levi e i suoi compagni
Donzelli Editore, 2024
[Read More]Ireland and the Renaissance court: Political culture from the cúirteanna to Whitehall, 1450-1640
Manchester University Press, 2024
[Read More]The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic
Norton, 2024
[Read More]America’s Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the Confederacy
Basic, 2023
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