News & Views
To understand how ideas about racial difference took root in American history, Makiki Reuvers, a Ph.D. candidate in history, examines 17th-century encounters between British colonists and Native Americans.
Traveling Black’ - Mia Bay’s new book explores the intertwined history of travel segregation and African American struggles for freedom of movement.
Made by History - Alex Royt: The Gamestop bubble is an age-old financial craze with a modern twist.
Interview: Sophia Rosenfeld, PhD.The author of "Democracy and Truth: A Short History" responds to the moment
Research seminar (HIST245, “Petrosylvania: Reckoning with Fossil Fuel”) led by Prof. Jared Farmer looks at Pennsylvania’s—and Penn’s—role in the fossil fuel economy and, by extension, climate change
Tina A. Irvine receives two dissertation honors
Amy Gutman (President UPenn) and Wendel Pritchett (Provost UPenn) - Statement regarding the assault on the U.S. Capitol
Place-making and Mythmaking-Penn Today
Latino Voters and Lessons from the 2020 Election
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Upcoming Events
Russian History and Culture Workshop (Virtual)
Peter Holquist (History, Penn)
The 1899 Hague Conference and the ‘Regulations concerning the Laws and Customs of War on Land’: A European Story
23rd Annual Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Lecture in Judaic Studies
Carlo Ginzburg in conversation with Francesca Trivellato (…
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.