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Jen Getson

Congratulations to Jen Getson, History Dept. Senior Academic Program Services Specialist, on receiving the 2024-25 College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Staff Award!
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Bert Harrill, Adam Blair, and Maya Badhwar

Congratulations to our Denman participants! Maya Badhwar, “Colonization, Empire, & the Girlhood Ideal of Femininity in Victorian Britain” (The Human Experience Category, Mentor: Birgitte Soland) Adam…

Edward Kunz

Congratulations to Edward Kunz on receiving a 2025-2026 postdoctoral fellowship at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute in Washington DC. Well done!

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Damarius Johnson

Damarius Johnson represented the Picturing Black History team last week at the NAACP Image Awards reception. The team's book, Picturing Black History, was nominated for an NAACP Image…

Peter Hahn and book cover with two tanks driving under a statue of two crossed swords

Congratulations to Professor Peter Hahn on the upcoming publication of his new book, "Crisis and Crossfire: The United States and the Middle East Since 1945," (Univ. of Nebraska Press), in April…

CSR's Savko Award notice

Congratulations to history majors Justina Sung and Seth Conklin who are co-recipients of the Center for the Study of Religion's Savko Award for Best Undergraduate Paper.

The Savko Award for…

Joe Stieb and UNC logo

Congratulations to former history & Mershon Center post doc Joe Stieb on his new role as a tenure-track assistant professor in Modern US Military History at UNC Chapel Hill!

a man and a woman in a comic and Sydney Heifler

“'In the 1940s and 50s, women of all ages read romance comics,' says Sydney Heifler, a PhD candidate at the Ohio State University and part of a new wave of scholars exploring the connections between…

US President Bill Clinton (C) stands between PLO leader Yasser Arafat (R) and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzahk Rabin (L) as they shake hands for the first time, on Sept. 13, 1993 at the White House in Washington, D.C., after signing the historic Israel-PLO Oslo Accords on Palestinian autonomy in the occupied territories.J. David Ake—AFP / Getty Images

History provides insightful lessons - and Professor Peter Hahn examines past trends to gauge future probabilities. His newest article for Time's Made by History discusses the complexities…