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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



She had Art enough to shew’: Slavery, Freedom, Marriage, and Property in the Pre-Revolutionary Atlantic

J.E. Morgan, with Sokeyra Francisco
Race & Slavery Working Group
- | Zoom



See and Believe: Orthodox Women as Witnesses of Soviet Life in the 1920's and 30s

Page Herrlinger, Bowdoin College
East European History and Culture Workshop
- | College Hall 209

Dr. Page Herrlinger presents "See and Believe: Orthodox Women as Witnesses of Soviet Life in the 1920's and 30s".

 

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.