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UConn Today Article “Curating the 250th: History Professors Mark Country’s Anniversary with Museum Exhibitions” features Professors Sinha and Horowitz
Manisha Sinha curated the “The Second American Revolution” exhibition at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, and Andy Horowitz was part of the team behind the “Connecticut’s Revolution” exhibit at the Museum of Connecticut History. Incredible pieces of American history, from the actual 13th amendment document to the original Connecticut copy of the Declaration […]
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For Your Health and Ours: An Eastern European History of Global Health
Sara Silverstein Oxford University Press, 2026 In For Your Health and Ours: An Eastern European History of Global Health, Sara Silverstein uses new research and material in six languages from seven countries and twenty-seven archives to describe a history of global health that decenters imperial influence and emphasizes the initiatives of people on the political peripheries including […]
[Read More]Connecticut State Historian Andy Horowitz presents talk “Why Connecticut 250 Matters” at New Haven Museum’s new exhibition, “New Haven’s Unfinished Revolutions”
Horowitz’s talk emphasized how individuals’ various roles and actions led to things like the creation of the Connecticut Compromise, or enslaved people paving new paths to freedom for themselves, and how the ways in which we define important places, circumstances, and people are vital to examine as we explore the voices of these stories.
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Sep23In Search of Phillis Wheatley Peters: Film Screening and Q&AThe Dodd Center for Human Rights12:15 PM
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For Your Health and Ours: An Eastern European History of Global Health
Sara Silverstein Oxford University Press, 2026 In For Your Health and Ours: An Eastern European History of Global Health, Sara Silverstein uses new research and material in six languages from seven countries and twenty-seven archives to describe a history of global health that decenters imperial influence and emphasizes the initiatives of people on the political peripheries including […]
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Liberation Summer: The Moment That Changed the Women’s Movement and the Future of American Politics
Micki McElya, Author Simon & Schuster, 2026 Professor McElya’s 2026 book Liberation Summer is about a key moment in the women’s liberation movement surrounding the 1968 Miss America pageant in Atlantic City and the reactions and protests it was surrounded by.
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The First Right: Self-Determination and the Transformation of International Order, 1941-2000
Bradley Simpson, Author Oxford University Press, 2025 In The First Right, Brad Simpson narrates the global history of the idea of self-determination in international politics from the 1940s through the end of the twentieth century. He argues that there was no one version of self-determination, but a century-long contest between contending visions of sovereignty and rights. He shows that […]
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The First Fascist
Sergio Luzzatto Harvard University Press, 2026 (US); Penguin Books, 2026 (UK) A vivid biography of the nineteenth-century French-Italian aristocrat Marquis de Morès, the first political leader to master the blend of racialized hatred, cross-class solidarity, and paramilitary violence that Benito Mussolini would call “fascism.”
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