News and Views

Tina A. Irvine (PhD 2019) is a 2022 ACLS Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the Center for Research on Race & Ethnicity in Society at Indiana University.

Tina Irvine (PhD 2019): Climate Change Just Erased the Past in Kentucky. Where Will it Happen Next?
Hannah De Oliveira, a rising senior in the College of Arts and Sciences, on College Green in July 2022.

Who, What, Why: History Major Hannah De Oliveira’s study of Japanese American internment (Brandon Baker)
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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.

Fred Dickinson speaking at an event

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).