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 Featured in the New York Times

May 27, 2025

Prof. Manisha Sinha was quoted in a May 25 New York Times piece, looking back at the murder of George Floyd and the 2020 movement for Black lives. Prof. Sinha is quoted alongside Ibram X. Kendi and Steven Hahn, among others, and seeks to place the events of 2020, as well as the subsequent reactionary […]

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Luke Reynolds to deliver Siborne Lecture on June 19th

May 20, 2025

Luke Reynolds has been invited to deliver the annual Siborne Lecture at the National Army Museum in London on June 19th. This lecture is part of the National Army Museum’s Waterloo Week (16 – 22 June) held to mark the 210th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo.

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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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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 ...