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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



Làhui: Community, Commoners, and Indigenous Zapotec Governance in Colonial Mexico

Beatriz Cruz Lopez, UCLA
- | College Hall 209



Penn History Review Launch Party

- | ARCH 108

Join us as we celebrate the release of the latest issue of the Penn History Review, Penn's undergraduate journal of history…

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.