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The Department of History produces world-class scholarship, contributes to meaningful public discourse, and educates students across all UConn campuses.
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UConn History at Shear 2025
Over the weekend of July 17-20, the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic held their annual conference in Providence, Rhode Island, where UConn history was well-represented. Manisha Sinha, Draper Chair in American History and outgoing president of SHEAR, moderated the president’s plenary panel and delivered the presidential address, while current faculty members Cornelia […]
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Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age
Princeton University Press, 2025
Manisha Sinha wrote the forward of a new edition of Sylvia Frey’s classic Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age published by Princeton University Press in July 2025.
[Read More]UConn History faculty, and grads attend annual SHAFR Conference
Congratulations to those presenting and representing the department at the 2025 Annual SHAFR Conference! Frank Costigiola Bradley Simpson Grace Easterly Gabrielle Westcott
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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

Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age
Princeton University Press, 2025
Manisha Sinha wrote the forward of a new edition of Sylvia Frey’s classic Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age published by Princeton University Press in July 2025.
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The Politics of Care Work
Duke University Press, 2025
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Black Movement: African American Urban History since the Great Migration
The University of North Carolina Press, 2025
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Primo Levi e i suoi compagni
Donzelli Editore, 2024
[Read More]Have a great weekend at the 2025 SHEAR meeting to the UConn faculty and grads in attendance, and to our own Manisha Sinha, who is the current president of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic!

Have a great weekend at the 2025 SHEAR meeting to the UConn faculty and grads in attendance, and to our own Manisha Sinha, who is the current president of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic! ...
Professor Sinha has written the foreword for the new edition of Sylvia Frey`s classic on black resistance in the south during the American Revolution, which was released today! https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691237787/water-from-the-rock?srsltid=AfmBOooGBSDg0GTqVaMqJ5d8o5jfBuk5jpLBcuiBktSVHRCCvwKzk5fn

Professor Sinha has written the foreword for the new edition of Sylvia Frey`s classic on black resistance in the south during the American Revolution, which was released today! https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691237787/water-from-the-rock?srsltid=AfmBOooGBSDg0GTqVaMqJ5d8o5jfBuk5jpLBcuiBktSVHRCCvwKzk5fn ...
Congratulations to the UConn History faculty, grads, and affiliates attending the annual SHAFR Conference in Arlington, VA!
Frank Costigiola
Bradley Simpson
Grace Easterly
Gabrielle Westcott

Congratulations to the UConn History faculty, grads, and affiliates attending the annual SHAFR Conference in Arlington, VA!
Frank Costigiola
Bradley Simpson
Grace Easterly
Gabrielle Westcott
...