News and Views

People walk through the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War in Kyiv in 2022. (Image: STR/NurPhoto via AP Images)

Russia’s attack on Ukraine, through the lens of history. Historian Benjamin Nathans offers background on Putin’s use of history in justifying his war in Ukraine (By Kristen de Groot)

Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon

Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon: Ice Cream Diplomacy - What the progressive caucus gets wrong on Ukraine
Jordyn Kaplan

History Major and aspiring teacher is a Fulbright Semifinalist
Jared Farmer teaching a class

A chance to imagine memorials of tomorrow. A history course taught by Jared Farmer looks at Philadelphia’s monuments past and present, and lets students envision what future memorials may be.
Anne Berg

ANNE BERG - Heritage out of Control: Don’t trash my holocaust (ALLEGRA LAB - Allegra Lab - Anthropology for Radical Optimism, JAN. 2022)
Samuel Strickberger

LET THE PEOPLE GO? – History Major, Samuel Strickberger, C’22, investigates Jewish Orthodox reactions to slavery in antebellum America. (By Susan Ahlborn)
Headshot of Elizabeth Magill

M. Elizabeth Magill nominated to become President of the University of Pennsylvania.
Jared Farmer headshot

Jared Farmer (History) - Jane E. Dmochowski (Earth and Environmental Science) and Irina Marinov (Earth and Environmental Science), talk about the challenges to understanding the Earth’s 4.6 billion year history, and more

Arielle X. Alterwaite - Biddy Mason in Images: A Monumental Life in Monumental Forms

Sophie Rosenfeld

Sophia Rosenfeld (Upenn-History), Heather Williams (Upenn-Africana Studies), and David Young Kim (Upenn-Art History), three historians weigh in on how we can understand our past and the Future of History.