News & Views
Anne Fleming - In Memoriam
It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Anne Fleming (Ph.D. Penn 2014) on August 25th. Anne’s sudden passing came after an already successful career, tenure at Georgetown, a wonderful graduate record at Penn, and way too many years left to live.The Queen’s College - Oxford establishes Barbara Savage Prize for best thesis in Black History
"Professor Barbara Savage is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought at the University of Pennsylvania.Melissa Teixeira - Health Care as a Human Right: Reflections on Brazil's 1988 Constitution During a Pandemic
“Brazil is home to one of the world’s worst COVID-19 outbreaks, second only to the United States.Roger Chartier – On COVID-19 - The Meaning of the Event
Roger Chartier – On COVID-19 - The Meaning of the EventKathy Peiss on the debates, support and opposition in the run-up to the adoption in 1920 of the 19th Amendment
Kathy Peiss was recently interviewed by KYW News Radio on the Women's Suffrage movement.Penn announces plans to remove the statue of George Whitefield and forms working group to study campus names and iconography.
"Over the past few years, members of our community involved in the Penn & Slavery Project have done important research that has helped the University better understand its early history, and we are grateful for their work.Ann Moyer publishes "The Intellectual World of Sixteenth-Century Florence: Humanists and Culture in the Age of Cosimo I"
Ann Moyer has recently published The Intellectual WorJennifer Reiss on Gouverneur Morris: Founding Father, disabled American
"Best known for writing the ‘We the People’ preamble to the Constitution, Gouverneur Morris also lived with painful disabilities. History doctoral candidate Jennifer Reiss looks at him through this underexplored lens."Marc Flandreau on Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics
In January 2020, UPenn Press launched a new journal, Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics. Capitalism is made possible by the Howard S. Marks Chair of Economic History - History Department at Penn.
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
Russian History and Culture Workshop (Virtual)
Listening to Russia: Writing the ‘Voice of the People’ in the Nineteenth Century
Gabriella Safran, Stanford University
Annenberg Seminar in History (Virtual)
Celebrating New Faculty Books: Kathy Peiss (Upenn), author of Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe (Oxford University Press), in conversation with Peter Holquist (UPenn)
Celebrating New Faculty Books: Kathy Peiss (Upenn), author of Information Hunters: When…
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
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.
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.
