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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



Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait with Bathseba Demuth

Kaplan Lecture
- | College Hall 209

 

History from the Dogsled: Animals, Climates, and the Stakes of Telling the Past
Dr. Bathsheba Demuth


In the nineteenth century, moving in the Arctic often meant…



CETLI Graduate Student Workshop

- | College Hall 209

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.