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 […]

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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 […]

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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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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

Today! Professor Manisha Sinha will be presenting her talk, "Lafayette in the Abolitionist Imagination." 

The event will begin at 6:30 pm, with the talk starting at 7 pm.

Please register in advance as space is limited!

Today! Professor Manisha Sinha will be presenting her talk, "Lafayette in the Abolitionist Imagination."

The event will begin at 6:30 pm, with the talk starting at 7 pm.

Please register in advance as space is limited!
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Starting this Wednesday (10/23), the History Department will once again be hosting our Wednesday Workshops!

This semester we will hear from Julio Vezub, Jesse Olsavsky, and Hana Maruyama.

These workshops are run to further scholarly dialogue among graduate students, faculty, and visiting scholars. In the form of a brownbag lunch, the speaker will present their research-in-progress and then engage with the audience in a Q&A.

Starting this Wednesday (10/23), the History Department will once again be hosting our Wednesday Workshops!

This semester we will hear from Julio Vezub, Jesse Olsavsky, and Hana Maruyama.

These workshops are run to further scholarly dialogue among graduate students, faculty, and visiting scholars. In the form of a brownbag lunch, the speaker will present their research-in-progress and then engage with the audience in a Q&A.
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