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

Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age
Princeton University Press, 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
[Read More]Jenna Ulizio ’26 and Everett Padro ’26 presenting at int’l virtual conference 6/19
Jenna Ulizio ’26 and Everett Padro ’26 will present at the online seminar “Public history for contested and conflicting past(s)” on Thursday, June 19. The seminar is organized by the students of the Master in Digital and Public History (MADiPH) at the University of Luxembourg: The past is subject to multiple historical interpretations. Perhaps more […]
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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
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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]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
...
Join Professor Manisha Sinha for an online author panel tonight!
https://www.americanancestors.org/events/march-freedom-all-americans-1860-1920-panel-discussion-featuring-authors-bennett-parten-and

Join Professor Manisha Sinha for an online author panel tonight!
https://www.americanancestors.org/events/march-freedom-all-americans-1860-1920-panel-discussion-featuring-authors-bennett-parten-and
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