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Associate Professor, Michael Rossi's new book, Capturing Kahanamoku, is reviewed by Reader. He will also be giving a book talk at the Sem Co-op on December 3. Register to attend by following the links in the article. chicagoreader.com/books/book-r...
Capturing Kahanamoku explores the dark history of eugenics - Chicago Reader
University of Chicago historian Michael Rossi explores the dark history of eugenics in Capturing Kahanamoku.
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November 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Associate Professor, Michael Rossi's new book, Capturing Kahanamoku, is reviewed by Reader. He will also be giving a book talk at the Sem Co-op on December 3. Register to attend by following the links in the article. chicagoreader.com/books/book-r...
Congratulations to Kirsten Macfarlane, Associate Professor of Early Modern Religious and Intellectual History, who won the 2025 Roland H. Bainton Theology and Religion Prize from The Sixteenth-Century Society for her book Lay Learning and the Bible in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World!
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November 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Congratulations to Kirsten Macfarlane, Associate Professor of Early Modern Religious and Intellectual History, who won the 2025 Roland H. Bainton Theology and Religion Prize from The Sixteenth-Century Society for her book Lay Learning and the Bible in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World!
Could the U.S. see a general strike in 2025? with Gabriel Winant www.wbez.org/in-the-loop-...
Could the U.S. see a general strike in 2025?
We look back at the history of general strikes in the United States, the impacts and what a strike could look like today.
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October 31, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Could the U.S. see a general strike in 2025? with Gabriel Winant www.wbez.org/in-the-loop-...
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Please join us next week at UChicago for a conversation with @peterbeinart.bsky.social, @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social, and @gabrielwinant.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Please join us next week at UChicago for a conversation with @peterbeinart.bsky.social, @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social, and @gabrielwinant.bsky.social
Patrick Finian, an alumnus of the History BA program, will be giving a book talk about his debut book, Ice's End, at 57th Street Books on Sunday, November 9. RSVP to attend!
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Patrick Finian Reilly - "Ice's End" - August Clarke
Event in Chicago, IL by 57th Street Books on Sunday, November 9 2025
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October 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Patrick Finian, an alumnus of the History BA program, will be giving a book talk about his debut book, Ice's End, at 57th Street Books on Sunday, November 9. RSVP to attend!
shorturl.at/EnTcW
shorturl.at/EnTcW
Find out how exciting early American history was by taking American Civ I in Autumn quarter! Open sections: WF 1:30-2:50 and 3-4:20.
September 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Find out how exciting early American history was by taking American Civ I in Autumn quarter! Open sections: WF 1:30-2:50 and 3-4:20.
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Here's a peek at some of the amazing courses we'll be offering in Autumn 2025!
August 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Here's a peek at some of the amazing courses we'll be offering in Autumn 2025!
Here's a peek at some of the amazing courses we'll be offering in Autumn 2025!
August 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Here's a peek at some of the amazing courses we'll be offering in Autumn 2025!
Congratulations to alumna Sarah L. H. Gronningsater, UChicago History PhD 2014, for winning the 2025 James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic for her book, The Rising Generation (Penn, 2024)!
July 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Congratulations to alumna Sarah L. H. Gronningsater, UChicago History PhD 2014, for winning the 2025 James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic for her book, The Rising Generation (Penn, 2024)!
Congratulations to Gowri Rao (Linguistics major; History minor, 2022) who was awarded a Fulbright HAEF English Teaching Assistant Award in Greece and
Elena Tiedens (History major; Russian & Eastern European Studies minor, BA/MA 2025) who was awarded an English Teaching Assistant Award in Kyrgyzstan!
Elena Tiedens (History major; Russian & Eastern European Studies minor, BA/MA 2025) who was awarded an English Teaching Assistant Award in Kyrgyzstan!
July 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Congratulations to Gowri Rao (Linguistics major; History minor, 2022) who was awarded a Fulbright HAEF English Teaching Assistant Award in Greece and
Elena Tiedens (History major; Russian & Eastern European Studies minor, BA/MA 2025) who was awarded an English Teaching Assistant Award in Kyrgyzstan!
Elena Tiedens (History major; Russian & Eastern European Studies minor, BA/MA 2025) who was awarded an English Teaching Assistant Award in Kyrgyzstan!
Congrats to the 2025-26 Center for International Social Science Research Dissertation Fellows, including UChicago History's Xiaoyu Gao!
Xiaoyu's dissertation: “Empire of Copper: British and American Global Trade, Chilean Copper, and the Transformation of Chinese Monetary System (1800-1862).”
Xiaoyu's dissertation: “Empire of Copper: British and American Global Trade, Chilean Copper, and the Transformation of Chinese Monetary System (1800-1862).”
July 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Congrats to the 2025-26 Center for International Social Science Research Dissertation Fellows, including UChicago History's Xiaoyu Gao!
Xiaoyu's dissertation: “Empire of Copper: British and American Global Trade, Chilean Copper, and the Transformation of Chinese Monetary System (1800-1862).”
Xiaoyu's dissertation: “Empire of Copper: British and American Global Trade, Chilean Copper, and the Transformation of Chinese Monetary System (1800-1862).”
What was the Renaissance anyway? In an interview about her new book, Inventing the Renaissance, Ada Palmer discusses this very question with Sophia Hollander.
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HISTORY | Topics, Shows and This Day in History
Fascinating stories from the past you can trust, plus hit shows.
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May 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
What was the Renaissance anyway? In an interview about her new book, Inventing the Renaissance, Ada Palmer discusses this very question with Sophia Hollander.
www.history.com/articles/4-m...
www.history.com/articles/4-m...
Tara Zahra, the Hanna Holborn Gray Professor of East European History and the College, has been reappointed as the Roman Family Director of the Neubauer Collegium. news.uchicago.edu/story/tara-z...
May 22, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Tara Zahra, the Hanna Holborn Gray Professor of East European History and the College, has been reappointed as the Roman Family Director of the Neubauer Collegium. news.uchicago.edu/story/tara-z...
Associate Professor of History, Eleonory Gilburd is one of just four UChicago faculty members to receive a 2025 Quantrell Award. Congratulations, Prof. Gilburd! Read more about the award and Prof. Gilburd in the UChicago News article: news.uchicago.edu/story/uchica...
May 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Associate Professor of History, Eleonory Gilburd is one of just four UChicago faculty members to receive a 2025 Quantrell Award. Congratulations, Prof. Gilburd! Read more about the award and Prof. Gilburd in the UChicago News article: news.uchicago.edu/story/uchica...
UChicago Alumnus Nicholas O'Neill's 2022 dissertation, "The Political Economy of Taste: The State and the Porcelain Industry in France, 1682-1815," has been shortlisted for the IEHA's triennial dissertation prize at the 2025 WEHC. Congratulations!
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May 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
UChicago Alumnus Nicholas O'Neill's 2022 dissertation, "The Political Economy of Taste: The State and the Porcelain Industry in France, 1682-1815," has been shortlisted for the IEHA's triennial dissertation prize at the 2025 WEHC. Congratulations!
wehc2025.com/conference_p...
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Assoc. Prof. Ada Palmer's course, "The Italian Renaissance: Dante, Machiavelli and the Wars of Popes and Kings is featured in the NYT Article, "‘The Only Person in the World Claiming to Be the Pope Right Now"
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‘The Only Person in the World Claiming to Be the Pope Right Now’
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May 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Assoc. Prof. Ada Palmer's course, "The Italian Renaissance: Dante, Machiavelli and the Wars of Popes and Kings is featured in the NYT Article, "‘The Only Person in the World Claiming to Be the Pope Right Now"
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...
Congratulations to History Undergraduate Nora Holmes and her teammates Ren Brown, Claudia Harnett, and Emma Kelly on winning the Distance Medley Relay at the NCAA National Track and Field Championship!
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UChicago Women’s Distance Medley Relay Team Wins National Championship - Chicago Maroon
“Nerds, nerds, nerds” exclaimed NCAA announcer Will Leer, watching as a three way tie between academic heavyweights UChicago, MIT, and Johns Hopkins was carried into the final leg of the distance medl...
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May 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Congratulations to History Undergraduate Nora Holmes and her teammates Ren Brown, Claudia Harnett, and Emma Kelly on winning the Distance Medley Relay at the NCAA National Track and Field Championship!
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UChicago History
Congratulations to History PhD Candidate, Daniel Fernandez who was awarded a 2025 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship!
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Congratulations to History PhD Candidate, Daniel Fernandez who was awarded a 2025 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship!
www.acls.org/fellow-grant...
Daniel Fernandez
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April 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
UChicago History
Congratulations to History PhD Candidate, Daniel Fernandez who was awarded a 2025 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship!
www.acls.org/fellow-grant...
Congratulations to History PhD Candidate, Daniel Fernandez who was awarded a 2025 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship!
www.acls.org/fellow-grant...
UChicago History alumna, Betsy Wood (PhD '11), just published a new piece in TIME Magazine on how American attitudes towards taxation have shifted since the Second World War. time.com/7274242/taxe...
Paying Taxes Used to Be Patriotic
In the 1950s, the wealthy were willing to pay higher taxes. Here's how America's fiscal patriotism unraveled.
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April 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
UChicago History alumna, Betsy Wood (PhD '11), just published a new piece in TIME Magazine on how American attitudes towards taxation have shifted since the Second World War. time.com/7274242/taxe...
All are invited to attend the Minority Identities and Vernacular Visual Culture: Interdisciplinary symposium on May 9-10, 2025 at the Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago. See the website for details: www.not-so-ordinary.us/symposium2025
April 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
All are invited to attend the Minority Identities and Vernacular Visual Culture: Interdisciplinary symposium on May 9-10, 2025 at the Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago. See the website for details: www.not-so-ordinary.us/symposium2025
ENERGY—CAPITAL—METABOLISM
April 24–25, 2025
Social Science Research Building & 1155 E. 60th St.
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April 24–25, 2025
Social Science Research Building & 1155 E. 60th St.
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April 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
ENERGY—CAPITAL—METABOLISM
April 24–25, 2025
Social Science Research Building & 1155 E. 60th St.
tinyurl.com/3ax7mtdw
April 24–25, 2025
Social Science Research Building & 1155 E. 60th St.
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Associate Professor of History, Amy Dru Stanley, on academic freedom and American history teaching in "Freedom for Sale" in Dissent Magazine.
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Freedom for Sale - Dissent Magazine
The government funds institutions that stretch across American society. The Trump administration is demanding the relinquishment of constitutional rights to keep the money flowing.
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April 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Associate Professor of History, Amy Dru Stanley, on academic freedom and American history teaching in "Freedom for Sale" in Dissent Magazine.
www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
We're pleased to announce that The Department of History at UChicago has been ranked second in the country for history graduate programs by US News & World Report. The report is based on peer assessment. Congratulations to our faculty for their excellence and dedication!
April 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
We're pleased to announce that The Department of History at UChicago has been ranked second in the country for history graduate programs by US News & World Report. The report is based on peer assessment. Congratulations to our faculty for their excellence and dedication!
UChicago History PhD Alumnae Sonia Gomez, Sarah L. H. Gronningsater, and Trish Kahle were each awarded prizes for their scholarship at the annual Organization of American Historians (OAH) meeting last week. Congratulations! www.oah.org/wp-content/u...
April 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
UChicago History PhD Alumnae Sonia Gomez, Sarah L. H. Gronningsater, and Trish Kahle were each awarded prizes for their scholarship at the annual Organization of American Historians (OAH) meeting last week. Congratulations! www.oah.org/wp-content/u...
TOMORROW (4/8) Please join us at 4:30 in SSRB 224 for the annual John Hope Franklin Lecture, "On Losing and Gaining Conceptual Languages," by David Scott (Columbia), who will be joined in conversation with Natacha Nsabimana (UChicago). A reception will follow.
April 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
TOMORROW (4/8) Please join us at 4:30 in SSRB 224 for the annual John Hope Franklin Lecture, "On Losing and Gaining Conceptual Languages," by David Scott (Columbia), who will be joined in conversation with Natacha Nsabimana (UChicago). A reception will follow.