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UVAToday highlights remarkable History graduate students' work through partnership between the GAGE Initiative and Washington Post

UVAToday highlights remarkable History graduate students' work through partnership between the GAGE Initiative and Washington Post

UVAToday highlights how, through a partnership between the Governing America in a Global Era Initiative (GAGE)and Washington Post's "Made by History," several of our grad students have produced remarkable work! GAGE director William Hitchcock discusses the programs importance to grad students’ professional development. Also, Bethany Bell and Brianna Frakes share their experiences! 

The article can be read here: https://news.virginia.edu/content/remarkable-uva-students-expand-possibilities-through-washington-post-partnership?fbclid=IwAR2BEBE4uSfiK3FZU08S0o7bY_kl6MQVDkscieXjqJQSagVyIqCQI8iTCFM

UVAToday highlights how, through a partnership between the Governing America in a Global Era Initiative (GAGE)and Washington Post's "Made by History," several of our grad students have produced rem

Professor Neeti Nair discusses the state of democracy in India on TVO Today's current affairs program, "The Agenda"

Professor Neeti Nair discusses the state of democracy in India on TVO Today's current affairs program, "The Agenda"

Professor Neeti Nair recently appeared on “The Agenda,” a nightly current affairs program on Canada’s TVO Today. The episode is titled “Is India’s Democracy in Crisis?” 

The episode can be viewed here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZPLM_EyFw0

Professor Neeti Nair recently appeared on “The Agenda,” a nightly current affairs program on Canada’s TVO Today. The episode is titled “Is India’s Democracy in Crisis?” 

Professor Neeti Nair's new book, Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia

Professor Neeti Nair's new book, Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia

Congratulations to Professor Neeti Nair on the publication of her new book, Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia!

Her book can be found here: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674238275

Congratulations to Professor Neeti Nair on the publication of her new book, Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia!

Professor John Edwin Mason discusses Visions of Progress on PBS NewHour

Professor John Edwin Mason discusses Visions of Progress on PBS NewHour

Professor John Edwin Mason was interviewed by PBS NewHour about the Holsinger Studio Collection's "Visions of Progress: Portraits of Dignity, Style and Racial Uplift" exhibit — open through June 24 — that he curated for UVA's Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library : Images of 'Black life, Black joy' are immortalized in historic Charlottesville portraits
 

Professor John Edwin Mason was interviewed by PBS NewHour about the Holsinger Studio Collection's "Visions of Progress: Portraits of Dignity, Style and Racial Uplift" exhibit — open throug

Publications

The Long 1989

Decades of Global Revolution

Cool Town

How Athens, Georgia Launched the Alternative Scene and Changed American Culture

The Cigarette

A Political History

Petersburg to Appomattox

Petersburg to Appomattox

The End of the War in Virginia

To the End of Revolution

The Chinese Communist Party and Tibet, 1949–1959

Black Leaders on Leadership

Black Leaders on Leadership

Conversations with Julian Bond

Taming the Unknown

Taming the Unknown

A History of Algebra from Antiquity to the Early Twentieth Century

La Frontera

La Frontera

Forests and Ecological Conflict in Chile’s Frontier Territory

Tosaka Jun

Tosaka Jun

A Critical Reader

Bad Water

Bad Water

Nature, Pollution, and Politics in Japan, 1870–1950

Lens of War

Lens of War

Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War

The Associational State

The Associational State

American Governance in the Twentieth Century

Discovering Tuberculosis

Discovering Tuberculosis

A Global History, 1900 to the Present

Enlightenment Underground

Enlightenment Underground

Radical Germany, 1680-1720

Cold Harbor

Cold Harbor to the Crater The End of the Overland Campaign

Ruling Minds

Ruling Minds

Psychology in the British Empire

Causes Won and Lost

Causes Won and Lost

The End of the Civil War

The American War

The American War

A History of the Civil War Era

Shaper Nations

Shaper Nations

Strategies for a Changing World

When Sunday Comes

Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras

The Age of Eisenhower

The Age of Eisenhower

America and the World in the 1950s

Performing Filial Piety in Northern Song China

Family, State, and Native Place

Rooted Cosmopolitans

Rooted Cosmopolitans

Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century

Piracy and Law

Piracy and Law in the Ottoman Mediterranean

Singing the Resurrection

Singing the Resurrection

Body, Community, and Belief in Reformation Europe

Sea of Debt

A Sea of Debt

Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950

Armies of Deliverance

A New History of the Civil War

The Law of Strangers

Jewish Lawyers and International Law in the Twentieth Century

To Build a Better World

Choices to End the Cold War and Create a Global Commonwealth

Unfree Marks: The Slaves' Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina

Ghosts From the Past?

Assessing Recent Developments in Religious Freedom in South Asia

That Tyrant, Persuasion

How Rhetoric Shaped the Roman World

The Unsettled Plain

An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier

The Man Who Understood Democracy

The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville

Paradoxes of Nostalgia

Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder since 1989

The New Era In American Mathematics, 1920-1950

Hurt Sentiments

Secularism and Belonging in South Asia

Communism's Public Sphere

Events

April 12, 2023

Auditorium of the Harrison Institute in the Special Collections Library | 3:30-6:00PM

Corcoran Department of History

The University of Virginia's Corcoran Department of History has long been one of the anchors for liberal and humane education in the College of Arts & Sciences. Members of the Department are nationally and internationally recognized for their scholarship and teaching. As scholars, the faculty specialize in a wide range of disciplines — cultural, diplomatic, economic, environmental history, history of science & technology, intellectual, legal, military, political, public history, and social history.  Areas of interest span the globe from Africa, to East Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, South Asia, and the United States. As teachers, our faculty seek above all to lead students to reflect more deeply on the role historical forces and processes play in the human condition. Offering over 100 courses a year, the faculty teach introductory surveys as well as seminars and colloquia to undergraduates and graduate students. The Department's intellectual breadth is enhanced by its close relationship with the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American & African Studies, the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES), the Classics Department, an emerging Law & History nexus between the Department and the School of Law,  the Miller Center for Study of the American Presidency, and the Committee on the History of Environment, Science, and Technology (CHEST). Members of the Department are also closely involved with several interdisciplinary programs in the College of Arts & Sciences such as, American Studies, Latin American Studies, Middle-Eastern Studies, Medieval Studies Program, and Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies.  Others work at the convergence of humanities and digital technology, both in research and in novel approaches to historical pedagogy.