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
Jeffrey Ogbar Wins GA Historical Records Advisory Council Award
This October, Jeffrey Ogbar was awarded the Award for Excellence in Documenting Georgia’s History by the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council for his book America’s Black Capital: How African-Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the Confederacy. The book “chronicles how a center of Black excellence emerged amid virulent expressions of white nationalism, as African […]
[Read More]Grace Easterly Selected as 2024-25 CWAR Institute Fellow
Grace Easterly has been selected as a 2024-2025 fellow at the Cold War Archives Research Institute. The Cold War Archives Research Institute at the Wilson Center has two objectives: “to stimulate original scholarship on the interplay between soft and hard power in the cold and hot wars between 1945 and 1991; and to demonstrate the […]
[Read More]Manisha Sinha Speaks at Congressional Dialogue Series
On September 25, Prof. Manisha Sinha visited Washington D.C., where she discussed her new book, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920, as part of the Congressional Dialogue series. Speaking before an audience of more than two hundred Members of Congress, Prof. Sinha discussed the relevance of Reconstruction to contemporary politics, […]
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Nov4Wednesday Workshops: Jesse Olsavsky “Frederick Douglass and the Trajectories of Pan-Africanism, 1876-1945.”Walter Childs Wood Hall12:15 PM
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Nov6UCHI Fellow’s Talk: Daniel Hershenzon on the Enslavement of Muslims in Early Modern SpainHomer Babbidge Library3:30 PM
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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
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
[Read More]Dolore e furore: Una storia delle Brigatte rosse
Giulio Einaudi editore, 2023
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