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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.

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Moving Subjects; Moving Archives

Taylor Prescott and Alexandra Zborovsky
Annenberg Seminar
- | College Hall 209

The Annenberg Series is pleased to host a Penn Global Fellows presentation with workshop discussants Alexandra Zborovsky and Taylor Prescott.

 

Title: Moving Subjects; Moving Archives…



A Post Election Conversation: The Past and Possible Futures of American Politics

History Speaking
- | Amado Recital Hall, Irvine Auditorium

A Post Election Conversation:

The Past and Possible Futures of American Politics 
 

Laura K. Field, an expert on conservative intellectuals whose writing has appeared in …

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.