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Pathways through the History Curriculum
Penn History is delighted to release a pilot version of a web-based app designed to help undergraduates create their own unique path through the department's rich curricular offerings: Penn History Pathways!Brent Cebul Interviewed in Penn Today
Penn Today has published an interview with Brent Cebul, "The Great Depression, the New Deal, and How Disasters Change Politics." He discusses lessons politicians can take from the Great Depression and New Deal as well as how disasters such as the COVID-19 pandemic can impact politics.Anne Berg - Teaching on COVID Time
It’s Wednesday again and I am about to invite my students into my bedroom, who will welcome me to theirs. That’s not something I imagined myself ever saying and in the age of #metoo it feels profoundly disorienting having to explain this particular reality.Sarah Barringer Gordon-A brief commentary on the legal history of epidemics in America, 1890 -2020
Courtesy of the Library Company of PThe History Department is ready for Advance Registration
Fall ’20 Advance Registration has been rescheduled to run from April 14-April 24, and the History Department is ready to help students plan their fall semesters! All Penn students are welcome to schedule a meeting with Dr.Alex Chase-Levenson interviewed by Penn Today
Alex Chase-Levenson was interviewed by Penn Today regarding his upcoming book on historical quarantines,Two Penn History Ph.Ds published in the Journal of American History
The March 2020 issue of the Journal of American History includes articles by two Penn PhDs: Emma Teitelman and Adam Goodman. Info on the articles below.Alex Chase-Levenson - on Pandemics, Quarantines and History
Epidemic diseases are terrifying. So, to many, are quarantines. Forcibly ordering people to withdraw from the rhythms of everyday life seems at once intrusive and extraordinary.Aron Brouwer interviewed in Omnia
Aron Brouwer, a first-year Ph.D. student, was interviewed in Omnia.The History of African American Voting
Kathleen Brown, Mary Frances Berry, and Political Science's Adolph Reed define what the “Black vote” means when viewed through history, and what it doesn’t mean when viewed as an indivisible bloc.
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
CANCELLED-Annenberg Seminar in History
Morphology and History: A Conversation
Carlo Ginzburg, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Roger Chartier, Annenberg Visiting Professor of History and Professor at the Collège de France
Please note there is no pre-circulated paper for this seminar.
Carlo Ginzburg is a noted historian of early modern Europe whose books have made pioneering…
CANCELLED-Kaplan Memorial Lecture
The Need for Strangers: A Story of Love and Loathing
Jeremy Adelman, Henry Charles Lee Professor of History at Princeton University
We are pleased to announce that this year's Kaplan speaker will be Jeremy Adelman, the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Princeton University. The lecture…
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.
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.
