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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.

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From Bernie Goetz to Breaching the Capitol: Rethinking the Ugly 80s with Heather Thompson

Annenberg Seminar
- | College Hall 209

Heather Ann Thompson, University of Michigan professor and author of the Pulitzer Prize winning history, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy, will share a section from her latest…



Michael Zakim presents The Camera’s I: On the Liberal Invention of Photography

Penn Economic History Forum
- | College Hall 209

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History Speaking

In an age of wrenching social change and momentous global challenges, history gives us fresh perspectives, important distinctions, and a sense of how we got here. This year, join Penn historians for lively discussions of the past that seek to better orient us in the present. Because as events unfold, that’s History Speaking, too.

Penn & Slavery Project

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.