News and Views

The Tokyo Olympics and politics of the pandemic: Frederick Dickinson, a professor of Japanese history and director of the Center for East Asian Studies, explains Japan’s history with the Olympics and why he’s certain this year’s games will happen.

June 24, 2021

OMNIA PODCAST - Season 2, Episode 7: Repair, Part II Breanna Moore and others speak about how institutions can perpetuate racial inequalities and the work that remains.

June 24, 2021

Sarah Gordon (UPenn), and Kevin Waite (Durham Univ-UK) - California is finally confronting its history of slavery. Here’s how. Los Angeles is finding success at reshaping its commemorative landscape

June 1, 2021

Nick Foretek - In a riveting story of rebellion, intrigue, love, betrayal, and exile, a Syrian revolutionary finds solace in the philosopher Sadiq Jalal al-Azm’s wine.

June 1, 2021

Jared Farmer and other Penn Professors on THE WORLD AT OUR FEET. It’s our tiny oasis in a vast universe, and it’s feeling fragile. Five faculty give us the latest on Earth and its prospects.

June 1, 2021

2021 HUAB Teaching Awards go to Kathy Peiss and Shang Yasuda

May 5, 2021

Two Ph.D History students - VanJessica Gladney & Kimberly St Julian Varnon - among the Inaugural Presidential Ph.D. Fellows.

May 5, 2021

Hope and help for wrongfully incarcerated Pennsylvanians

May 5, 2021

Historian Walter Licht – President Biden’s big plans through the lens of history. The American Jobs Plan and how it compares to national projects of the past

April 30, 2021

2020-21 Undergraduate Research Prizes

April 29, 2021