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Professor Sophia Rosenfeld, new chair of the History Department, University of Pennsylvania

The Department of History of the University of Pennsylvania welcomes three new professors - Joshua Teplitsky, Seçil Yilmaz, and Hardeep Dhillon.

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The legacy of Shinzo Abe. Frederick R. Dickinson, professor of Japanese history, offers his take on Abe’s impact on Japan,. (Kristen de Groot)
Grant Stanton with an unnamed horse

Grant Stanton - The unsung Black Patriots of Revolutionary Boston They fought so that those who came after them would be ‘born free and equal.’ It’s time we remembered their names. (Boston Globe)
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‘Mutinous Women’ In her latest book, Joan DeJean of the School of Arts & Sciences investigates the lives of female prisoners deported in 1719 from Paris to the French colony of Louisiana. (Louisa Shepard)
Students tour the battlefield in the Butte de Vauquois in northern France. (Image: Courtesy of Arielle Schweber)

The Great War and memory. History professor Warren Breckman took his Penn Global Seminar students to the Western Front area of northern France and Belgium to look at World War I through the intersections of personal and public memory. (Kristen de Groot)
Francis Ryan accepts his award

Francis Ryan (PhD 2003) wins Pennsylvania Labor History Society's John C. Brennan Award
Sarah Gronningsater Teaching her Course

Baseball history, American history. Sarah Gronningsater’s popular course links the two in a study of the sport from the Civil War to Jackie Robinson to the current day (By Kristen de Groot).
A father waves goodbye to his daughter as she leaves to seek refuge in Poland.

Thinking About Ukraine. Benjamin Nathans and other Penn faculty examine the conflict from multiple perspectives—sometimes clashing, sometimes meshing, and often thought-provoking.(By Trey Popp)
Students in history P.h.D candidate Sarah Yu’s (third from left) class about Chinese diasporas spent a day acting as tour guides in Chinatown. (Image: Courtesy of Yvonne Fabella)

Talking about Chinese diasporas. History Ph.D. candidate Sarah Yu’s class transformed students into tour guides and podcasters as they honed their public speaking skills while learning about Chinese migration.(Kristen de Groot)