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Omnia Publishes Q&A on Amy Offner's new book
Omnia conducted a Q&A with Amy Offner about her new book. Read the article by clicking the link below:
Kathy Peiss Publishes Book Excerpt in Lapham's Quarterly
Kathy Peiss writes about “The Denazified Library. Banning books in occupied Germany”. Excerpt of her latest book, published in Lapham’s Quarterly, Jan. 2020
Jared Farmer interviewed by The Economist and The New Yorker
Jared Farmer interviewed for “The long and tangled history of California’s eucalyptus trees”, The Economist, Dececember 2019, and “The Past and the Future of the Earth’s Oldest Trees”, The New Yorker, January 202
Brent Cebul Interviewed by the Philadelphia Inquirer
Brent Cebul interviewed by the Philadelphia Inquirer for “Racist property deeds kept thousands of Philly homes off-limits to all but white buyers.”
Kathy Peiss on Why the U.S. Sent Librarians Undercover to Gather Intelligence During World War II
Read a selection of Kathy Peiss's upcoming book, which was published in Time Magazine, here.
Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet Interviewed in Penn Today about the death of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani
Professor Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet was interviewed by Penn Today about the death of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani.
Sophia Rosenfeld Interviewed in Penn Today
Sophia Rosenfeld was interviewed in Penn Today about the President Trump's impeachment hearings.Check out the full article linked below:
Ann Farnsworth-Alvear awarded SAS Weiler Fellowship for Fall 2020
Ann Farnsworth-Alvear has been awarded an SAS Weiler Fellowship for the Fall 2020 semester. Weiler Fellowships provide teaching relief for the purpose of enhancing research and teaching productivity
Spring 2020 Course Spotlight: The Climate Crisis in Historical Perspective
Global Environmental History from the Paleolithic to the Present, co-taught by Professors Anne Berg and Marcy Norton, takes on the whole world and “all” of its environments.
Prof. Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet the Guest of Honor at Exhibition at the Yarat Center (Azerbaijan)
Professor Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet was recently the guest of honor at the opening of the Fragile Frontiers-Visions on Iran's In/Visible Borders exhibit at the Yarat Center in Azerbaijan.
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
Capitalism: A Concept and a Journal
Joint seminar of the History Department and the Workshop on Concepts, Ideas, and Discourses
Marc Flandreau, University of Pennsylvania, Julia Ott, The New School, New York, Francesca Trivellato, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Carolyn Biltoft, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
L’Atelier: Economic Questions — Multiple Methods
January 24 will be the first meeting of "L’Atelier: Economic Questions — Multiple Methods" an interdisciplinary seminar supported by the Howard S. Marks Chair of Economic History and co…
Featured Students
Justin Estreicher
Justin Estreicher is a member of the Class of 2019 majoring in American history and minoring in anthropology. A native of Long Island, he grew up with a love of history encouraged by exposure to museums in his local community and in nearby New York City.
Maggie Rymsza
Maggie is a a Junior studying American History, concentrating on colonial America. She assists with the rare books and manuscripts at the Kislak Center of Van Pelt Library.
John Mullan
John is a double-major in History and Arabic and Islamic Studies.
