News
Read department graduate student Justin McBrien's article "How farmers convinced scientists to take climate change seriously" for the Washington Post, here.
Professor Brian Balogh is featured in CNN.com's article about UVa students returning for the fall semester in the aftermath of the White Nationalist rally on August 12. Read the artice here.
Professor John Mason has been featured in a number of news articles and blogs in the wake of the recent events in Charlottesville. Read what he has to say here:
The KKK Once Gave UVa $1,000. These Professors Want the University to Admit It.
I've seen this racial denialism before – in post-apartheid South Africa
Professor Grace Hale appeared on a recent episode of the podcast "It's Been a Minute with Sam Sanders" to talk about the concept of "Whiteness" and Charlottesville history. Listen here.
Professor Waitman Beorn spoke with Forbes Magaine's Sarah Bond about the use of torches by the Nazi party in early twentieth century Germany and its imagery in the United States. Read the article here.
Professor Elizabeth Varon has a piece for the Washington Post about the Civil War and its memory in light of the White Nationalist Rally in Charlottesville. Read her article "No, Mr. President, both sides aren’t to blame for Charlottesville — or the Civil War" here.
Professor Philip Zelikow has written a piece on domestic terrorism, unauthorized private military groups, and the recent events in Charlottesville. Read his post "The Domestic Terrorism Danger: Focus on Unauthorized Private Military Groups" here.
Professor Brian Balogh spoke with Boston's NPR affiliate on August 14 about the recent events in Charlottesville. You can listen to the segment here.
Congratulations to department graduate students Asaf Almog and Swati Chawla, who have received Fellowships from the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University! Read more about the award here.
Congratulations to deparment graduate students Swati Chawla, Alexandra Evans, Emily Matson Hite for receiving fellowships from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University! Emily and Swati were awarded the Center's Adam Smith Fellowships and Alexandra was awarded its Frederic Bastiat Fellowship. Click the links for more information on each award.
Congratulations to Abeer Saha, Rachael Givens-Johnson, and Swati Chawla, graduate students in the History Department, for winning Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation grants for Spring 2017! Read more about their awards here.
Congratulations to department graduate student Christopher Maternowski on winning the Class of 1985 Fellowship for Creative Teaching! This award is among the highest honors a graduate student can earn in recognition of their dedication to teaching at the University of Virginia.
NPR's With Good Reason is currently featuring interviews with the history department's Prof. Erik Linstrum on the history of education in its national and imperial contexts. Read and listen here.
From Sunday, 19 February through Sunday, 26 March, American History TV on C-Span3 will air a series of six interviews with prominent African American women conducted by civil rights leader and professor Julian Bond. They are part of his project with Phyllis Leffler, Black Leaders on Leadership: Conversations with Julian Bond. Each interview covers their personal stories of family, upbringing, education and career through many significant historic milestones including the civil rights era. Interviews will air each Sunday at 12:00pm. Click here for full schedule.
Congratulations to History Department graduate student Stephanie Lawton, who has been awarded a Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington Research Fellowship. Read more about the award here.
Congratulations to History Department Graduate Student Frank Cirillo, who has been awarded the Bernard and Irene Schwartz Postdoctoral Fellowship, offered by The New School for Liberal Arts and New York Historical Society. Read more about the fellowhship here.
The radio show With Good Reason is currently featuring Prof. Sarah Milov's research on the United States tobacco industry as a "web extra" for its weekly radio show. Read more here: http://withgoodreasonradio.org/2017/01/how-tobacco-conquered-the-world/
The summer of 2016 marked the first time that University of Virginia undergraduates embarked on four internships in American history made possible by funding from the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History. Read about their experiences here.
Congratulations to James P. Ambuske, ‘16 alumnus, who has been named Horatio and Florence Farmer Postdoctoral Fellow of Digital Humanities at the University of Virginia Law Library. Read more about the fellowship HERE.
Congratulations to Swati Chawla, PhD Candidate in the Department, whose team received a Center of Excellence on Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance Grant for research on "Increasing the Civic and Political Participation of Women" from USAID and Institute for International Education. The grant was awarded to a team of four graduate students and two faculty members from UVa. Read more about the grant here.