News and Views

Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon, Opinion: Russian hypocrisy and the death of a Zambian student in Ukraine

THE HISTORY DEPARTMENT WISHES YOU AND YOURS HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND A WONDERFUL AND SUCCESSFUL NEW YEAR

On the left is a portrait of Mia Bay. She is smiling, looking into the camera, and is wearing a black shirt. On the right is the cover of her book Traveling Black: A story of race and resistance

Professor Mia Bay is presented The Order of the Coif 2022 Book Award
Portraits of Sarah Kane, Amy Krimm, Carson Eckhard

Penn History Alum Carson Eckhard: Two Penn fourth-years and an alumna named 2023 Marshall Scholars

Amy E. Gadsden: Don’t assume China cannot change

Scholars look at ramifications from ‘zero COVID’ protests in China

Beth Wenger, Penn Today: Jewish history scholar talks antisemitism in today’s world

Roberto 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 Penn and Slavery Project has inscribed its message on the university campus with an augmented reality tour. Courtesy the Penn and Slavery Project

A Bare and Open Truth The Penn and Slavery Project and the Public (VanJessica Gladney – PERSPECTIVES)
The Alder Creek sequoia grove, near Springville, Calif., in the aftermath of the Castle fire in 2020. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Jared Farmer - Op-Ed: With climate change, we may witness sequoia forests convert to chaparral – (Los Angeles Times, OCT. 9, 2022)