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Penn Pledges $100 Million to the School District of Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, School Board President Joyce Wilkerson, and Superintendent of the School District of Philadelphia William R.Professors on the importance of integrating the arts into life and work-Featuring Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet
A virtual discussion with Penn faculty about pursuing both their artistic and academic interests was held by the Kelly Writers House for Homecoming, featuring (left-right, top-bottom) English Professors Al Filreis, Simone White, Herman Beavers, and History Professor Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet from thOmnia Podcast featuring Mary Frances Berry
We start—as most things seem to now—with the partisan polarization in the U.S., asking a political science professor if people really are seeing everything in red or blue."You Voted. But Did it Really Matter?" A post-election conversation with Mary Frances Berry
In “YOU VOTED. But Did it Really Matter?” a post-electoral conversation hosted on Friday, Nov.Racism and Anti-Racism in Contemporary America
New seminar series Racism and Anti-Racism in Contemporary America. Hosted by the Stavros Niachos Foundation Paideia Program at Penn, 13 virtual panel conversations with faculty and guest experts tackle racial disparity.Omnia Podcast Featuring Sarah Barringer Gordon and Alex Chase-Levenson
OMNIA – All Things Penn Arts and Sciences – Podcast. We’ve been here before. In this episode, we talk to experts about past epidemics, how societies fought them, and how they changed life.Amy Offner wins the 2020 Murdo J. MacLeod Book Prize
Amy Offner’s Sorting Out the Mixed Economy. The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas (Princeton University Press, 2019), wins the 2020 Murdo J.Jared Farmer published in the Los Angeles Times
Jared Farmer Los Angeles Times Op-Ed: The Golden State treescape wasn’t made to last.William Figueroa, Ph.D. History (2020), shares his take on the recent Iran-China partnership: A reported new deal for a relationship going back to antiquity.
During the summer, reports of a new partnership between Iran and China raised concerns about what it could mean for the deteriorating relationship between the United States and China.Anne Berg on “Is American democracy at a breaking point?”
Amidst a backdrop of protests, the pandemic, and presidential politics, historian Anne Berg shares her thoughts on whether American democracy is at risk, historical parallels to the current situation, and what ordinary people can do.
Welcome to the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Over thirty historians in the standing faculty with a broad range of research specialties advance our understanding of the past.
Upcoming Events
Annenberg Seminar in History (Virtual)
Valeria López Fadul, Wesleyan University
“The Cradle of Words: Language and Knowledge Making in Early Latin America”
Valeria López Fadul is an Assistant Professor of History and Latin American Studies at Wesleyan University. She studies the intellectual and cultural history of colonial Latin America and early modern Spain, with a…
The Penn & Slavery Project teaches us that no colony, state, or well-funded university was buffered from slavery’s reach. Penn’s story is a national story, and one of great importance to our ongoing efforts to come to terms with our nations’s history of slavery.
Featured Students
Archana Upadhyay
I’m a senior from Chicago majoring in World History. I transferred to Penn as a sophomore from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.
John Mullan
John is a double-major in History and Arabic and Islamic Studies.
Carson Eckhard
Carson didn’t come to Penn set on being a History Major. Yet her freshman year she enrolled in “The American South” and there wrote a paper about Southern U.S. universities and slavery.
