The University of Connecticut History Department is pleased to announce that the Fall 2026 Draper Research Workshop will take place on November 16th, from 4:30 – 6:00 PM, with a reception to follow. The event will focus on the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, and will feature a panel discussion from visiting professors Maya Jasanoff (Harvard University), Robert Parkinson (Binghamton University), Mark Peterson (Yale University), and Karin Wulf (Brown University). Prof. Manisha Sinha (University of Connecticut) will moderate.

Full event details here.

Prof. Manisha Sinha recently published a piece in Ms. Magazine on the abolitionist origins of American feminism, discussing the intersection of the abolitionism and women’s rights movements during the nineteenth century.

Read the piece here.

The Southern Historical Association will be hosting a roundtable discussion of Prof. Manisha Sinha’s, The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina, in honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary of its publication. The discussion will take place on November 7, from 2:30 – 4:30 P.M. In addition to Manisha Sinha, the panel will feature Lorri Glover (Saint Louis University), W. Fitzhugh Brundage (University of North Carolina), Justene Hill Edwards (University of Virginia), Matthew Karp (Princeton University), and Amrita Chakrabarti Myers (Indiana University).

Professor Manisha Sinha is doing a lecture tour in China and the Chinese book launch of The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition (2016) in Beijing. She will be lecturing in Wuhan University, Peking University, Shanghai Normal University, and East China Normal University.

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Professor Manisha Sinha will deliver the Richard Greener Lecture at the University of South Carolina, Columbia on October 15, 2025 on her new book on Reconstruction. Previous speakers have included Professor Randall Kennedy of Harvard Law School and Representative James Clyburn of South Carolina.

New York Times opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie recently recommended Professor Andy Horowitz’s Katrina: A History, 1915–2015. “It’s just a wonderful history,” he asserted. “A great perspective on…thinking through America in the 20th century from the perspective of this singular event that was Hurricane Katrina.”

You can read the full article here.

Prof. Manisha Sinha was recently interviewed by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Topics of discussion include President Trump and Project 2025. Open post to listen.

Manisha Sinha was cited in a recent piece by Jamelle Bouie, which appeared in The New York Times on August 6. In the article Bouie adopts Sinha’s analogy of French republicanism, and follows her framework of different American Republics.

You can check the piece out here:

“The Death of the Fourth American Republic,” Jamelle Bouie

Over the weekend of July 17-20, the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic held their annual conference in Providence, Rhode Island, where UConn history was well-represented. Manisha Sinha, Draper Chair in American History and outgoing president of SHEAR, moderated the president’s plenary panel and delivered the presidential address, while current faculty members Cornelia Dayton, Deirdre Cooper Owens, and Melanie Newport helped to lead several panels and workshops.

Current UConn History Graduate Students Alex Keuny, Timothy Brown, and Lincoln Hirn also presented their work, as part of panel discussions. UConn History alumni Kathryn Angelica, Nathan Braccio, Nicole Breault (who also served on the program committee), Allison Horrocks, Antwain Hunter, and Amy Sopcak-Joseph all presented, as well.

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 backlash, within its long-term historical context.

Access the piece here.