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  • Winslow Homer, Sunday Morning in Virginia (1877)
    Winslow Homer, Sunday Morning in Virginia (1877).
    The lack of public education in the South--especially for African-Americans--is a part of Professor John Majewski's research into how slavery undermined economic creativity. For more on economic creativity and the coming of the Civil War, please see Prof. John Majewski's faculty page.
  • Professor Barbieri-Low’s HIST 2A conducts the Wittfogel experiment
    History 2A students digging rival canals at Campus Point Beach in Santa Barbara, CA.
    Prof. Anthony Barbieri-Low’s HIST 2A class conducts the Wittfogel experiment. Click for more information.
  • Ancient Borderlands Field Trip to Ephesus, summer 2010
    Ancient Borderlands field trip to Ephesus (Summer 2010).
    Click to view the Ancient Borderlands website.
  • Piccadilly Circus at Dawn
    The West End of London is one of the largest and most famous shopping and entertainment districts in the world. Learn more by studying Modern British History and getting involved in our research cluster, Commerce, Commodities and Material Cultures. (Click for details on research cluster.)
  • Photo of Professor Lee teaching an on-site seminar at the ancient Greek town of Priene, in modern Turkey.
    Prof. John W.I. Lee teaches an on-site seminar at the ancient Greek town of Priene, in modern Turkey.
  • Photo of Professor Laura Kalman researching in the Reagan library archives
    Prof. Laura Kalman in the Reagan library archives.
  • Photo of the Hagia Sophia
    Hagia Sophia in modern-day Istanbul was built by the emperor Justinian in the mid-fifth century to replace a church originally built by the first Christian emperor, Constantine the Great, for his new city, Constantinople. Why did "Constantinople get the works"? Unlike the song, it's not "nobody's business but the Turks." If you want to know why the city is now called "Istanbul," you can contact Prof. Hal Drake. (Click for Prof. Hal Drake's profile page)
  • Photo of soldiers at US-Mexico border at Nogales, AZ - circa 1910-14
    US-Mexico border at Nogales, AZ 1910-14 (Click for Prof. Verónica Castillo-Muñoz's faculty page.)
  • Photo of the Great Wall of China
    The Great Wall of China
    Prof. Tony Barbieri-Low's research and courses focus on Early China, East Asian civilization, and early Chinese history. He teaches graduate courses in specialized topics related to ancient China.
  • Roosevelt signs Social Security Bill
    Our department is host to several interdisciplinary research and education initiatives involved in analysis of issues both past and present. (Click for details on Affiliated Centers and Programs)
  • Photo of Anne Clopton D’Ewes’s family Suffolk manor hours
    Anne Clopton D’Ewes’s family Suffolk manor house (Click for Prof. Sears McGee's faculty page.)
  • Kochi castle
    Kochi castle on Shikoku island in southern Japan.
    Prof. Luke Roberts’ research and courses focus on the Tokugawa era (1600-1868) and premodern Japan.
  • Arthur E Grimshaw's painting "The Strand" (1899)
    Arthur E Grimshaw: The Strand (1899) (Click for Prof. Erika Rappaport's faculty page.)
  • Porta Nigra, Trier, Germany
    Porta Nigra, Trier, Germany, home of the north-western capital of the late Roman Empire.
    Prof. Elizabeth Digeser's research and courses focus on Roman imperialism and the late Roman Empire.
  • Entrance of Las Inditas into Abiquiu Plaza
    Entrance of Las Inditas into Abiquiu Plaza, New Mexico.
    Prof. James Brooks' research includes Southwest Borderlands History, Anthropology and History, Gender & Violence, and the Professoriate in the 21st Century.
  • Photo of Haifa
    Haifa (Click for Prof. Sherene Seikaly's faculty page.)
  • The Children of St. Nicholas
    "The Children of Saint Nicolas" was a popular medieval story concerning the role of charity in relieving the plight of the poor. Prof. Sharon Farmer has published extensively on medieval poverty and charity.
  • “Pobladores” reading La Republica plebeya
    “Pobladores” reading La Republica plebeya. (Click for Prof. Cecilia Méndez Gastelumendi's faculty page.)
  • Tea Plantation, Darjeeling, India
    The study of imperialism, labor and world history illuminates the connections between this tea plantation in Northern India and the historical nature of globalization and capitalism. Click to view more about our Empires, Borderlands and their Legacies research cluster.
  • Chinese laborers loading soybeans onto a Japanese merchant ship at the Port of Dalian (J: Dairen), c. 1909.
    Chinese laborers loading soybeans onto a Japanese merchant ship at the Port of Dalian (J: Dairen), c. 1909.
    In the early twentieth century, Japanese imperialists used images such as this one to argue that Japanese enterprises were bringing "circulation" as well as "civilization" to East Asia. Prof. Kate McDonald studies the history of mobility in Japan and the Japanese Empire.
  • A young, ethnic women walks along a muralled wall. She is one of the faces of a new, multicultural Germany.
    Monica is the face of a new multicultural Germany.
    Prof. Paul Spickard studies race, migration, and membership in North America, the Pacific, Asia, and Europe. His current project is "Growing Up Ethnic in Germany."
  • Prof. Patrick McCray’s research and teaching connects the histories of modern science & technology with contemporary issues.
    Prof. Patrick McCray’s research and teaching connects the histories of modern science & technology with contemporary issues.
  • Ruins of Madzimbabwe Civilization.
    Madzimbabwe Civilization: the Great Zimbabwe City State.
    Prof. Mhoze Chikowero teaches African History from deep time African perspectives.
  • Woodcut map of New England, 1677. Printed by John Foster.
    Woodcut map of New England, 1677. Printed by John Foster, used to illustrate William Hubbard's "Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians," from the London edition.
    Prof. Ann Marie Plane teaches an advanced course on New England cultural history; her research and teaching focus on the interaction between European colonists and Native Americans in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries.
  • Aurora artwork and a visoplot form for quantitative analysis of the artwork.
    The change of aesthetics in data representation of the environmental sciences in the 20th century — from the sublime aesthetics of pictorial depictions of aurorae to the mechanical aesthetics of numbers and symbols — is part of Elena Aronova’s research on the history of environmental archives during the Cold War.

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Recent News

Alumna April Haynes Awarded Mellon New Directions Fellowship

12/03/2019

Job Posting: Assistant Professor in Middle Period Chinese History

10/11/2019

Verónica Castillo-Muñoz Appointed to OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program

09/26/2019

History Associates to Feature “Electric” Presentation by Prof. Stephan Miescher

09/09/2019

Prof. Kate McDonald Awarded NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant

08/15/2019

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