Professor Tiraana Bains is delivering a talk entitled "How to Rule a Global Empire, 1784-1793" on Nov. 21, 2025. Please join us!
Day-long Graduate Student Workshop that provides a venue for students in history and other disciplines to share and receive formative feedback on their works in progress.
Please join us to welcome John C. Marquez from UC Riverside who will discuss a chapter titled Laboring for Freedom: Statuliberas in 18th Century Rio de Janeiro from his forthcoming book Freedom on Three Coasts on slavery, law, and belonging in Brazil and the Portuguese Empire in the Atlantic Ocean. Marquez is a scholar of the Luso-Atlantic world and colonial Latin […]
Public History Colloquium is hosting its first meeting of the quarter this Friday, January 23rd from 12-1:50, HSSB 4020. The theme of the quarter is Controversies and Contested Pasts. This week the colloquia will focus on "Policing the Past" and will be discussing the following works: Ø Gabriela Cristea and Simina Radu-Bucurenci, “Raising the Cross: Exorcising […]
Paula Findlen, Ubalto Pierotti Professor in History and Italian Studies at Stanford University will be delivering The Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture of 2026. Her talk will be on Tuesday, January 27 at 4:30 pm in the McCune Room, HSSB 6020. Her talk is titled: "Reading Galileo's Letters: Experiments in Friendship, Knowledge, and Community" Abstract: Galileo's […]
The History Associates and the History Department are launching a new special program “A Book in Common.” The first session is taking place on Thursday 1/29 at the Mosher Alumni House. This is a Book Club for history faculty, staff, students, History Associates, and history-minded community members. We'll discuss Lies My Teacher Told Me (graphic […]
"Ashayet Queen of Egypt" Everyone is welcome!
"Women and Wealth in the Letters & Papers of Symmachus" Everyone is welcome!
The History associates brings to you a talk by Professor Anthony Barbieri off the department of history on his latest book. The talk narrates the integrated history of Eurasia over the last two millennia through the travel of two dozen remarkable men and women who voyaged across this vast continent and reported on their encounters […]
Professor Mateo Jarquin of Chapman University will be giving a talk titled "Managua 1979: International and Transnational Origins of the Cold War’s Last Great Revolution." After the Cuban Revolution, armed movements across Latin America embraced violent struggle as a path to social transformation. Yet only one managed to seize power: Nicaragua’s Frente Sandinista de […]