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Beth Wenger, Penn Today: Jewish history scholar talks antisemitism in today’s world
Historian Beth S. Wenger discusses the history of modern antisemitism, its effect on the Jewish people, antisemitism on the right and left, Kanye West, Kyrie Irving, criticism of Israel, and the history of Jewish people in America. Greg Johnson, WriterRoberto Saba (Penn History Ph.D., 2017) winner of the American Historical Association 2022 Albert J. Beveridge Award in the history of the United States, Latin America, or Canada, from 1492 to the present
The American Historical Association (AHA) just announced the winners of the 2022 Prizes and Awards. The winner of theJared Farmer - Op-Ed: With climate change, we may witness sequoia forests convert to chaparral – (Los Angeles Times, OCT. 9, 2022)
In downtown L.A., in the parking lot of the Automobile Club of Southern California, sits a quaint monument, one century old.The History Department of the University of Pennsylvania strongly condemns the brutal murder of Kurdish-Iranian woman, Mahsa Zhina Amini, and the attacks on protestors throughout Iran by the Islamic Republic.
The History Department of the University of Pennsylvania strongly condemns the brutal murder of Kurdish-Iranian woman, Mahsa Zhina Amini, and the attacks on protestors throughout Iran by the Islamic Republic.Nick Foretek (Doctoral candidate in history at the University of Pennsylvania) - Anatomy of an Exodus From Russia. As the war in Ukraine progresses, an anthropologist catalogs the mass departure
The end came for all of us at once. (Interview Subject 1) On March 1, in a Moscow therapist’s office, Alevtina “Alya” Borodulina chose to leave Russia.A historical look at Diana, 25 years after her death. Emma Hart, History, offers her perspective on the history of royal celebrity, the British monarchy’s current role in public life
August 31 marks the 25th anniversary of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon: ‘Like a bad 1980s spy film’ Brittney Griner’s imprisonment reveals Russia’s embrace of pariah identity
Earlier this month, a court in Moscow sentenced Brittney Griner to nine years in prison for bringing cannabis oil into Russia in February 2022.
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.
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.
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.
Featured Students
Archana Upadhyay
I’m a senior from Chicago majoring in World History. I transferred to Penn as a sophomore from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.
John Mullan
John is a double-major in History and Arabic and Islamic Studies.
Bianca Serbin
My name is Bianca, and I’m a senior pursuing the general history major and minoring in French. From a young age, I was certain I wanted to study history. I was influenced by my father, who is a historian and who always encouraged me to value stories about the past.
Carson Eckhard
Carson didn’t come to Penn set on being a History Major. Yet her freshman year she enrolled in “The American South” and there wrote a paper about Southern U.S. universities and slavery.
