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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



Labors of Love: Gender, Capitalism, and Democracy in Modern Arab Thought with Susanna Ferguson

Embodied Histories Working Group on Gender, Sexuality and Race in the Global South
- | College Hall 209



Emily Wang: “Pushkin, the Decembrists, and Civic Sentimentalism”

East European History and Culture Workshop
- | College Hall 209

Emily Wang (German and Russian Languages and Literatures, University of Notre Dame): “Pushkin, the Decembrists, and Civic Sentimentalism”

 

 

 

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.