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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.

Upcoming Events



Chains of Captivity: Caribbean Warfare and the Slave Trade in Colonial Philadelphia

Christopher Baldwin, with VanJessica Gladney
Race & Slavery Working Group
- | Zoom



Power and Possibility at the U.S. Supreme Court: A Historian's View of the Most Recent Term

Karen Tani
Owen J. Roberts Lecture in Constitutional Law
| Michael A. Fitts Auditorium

From the Penn Carey Law website:

Dean and Bernard G. Segal Professor of Law
Sophia Z. Lee…

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.