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September 22, 2025
Professor Justene Hill Edward's book won the Virginia Literary Award for Nonfiction
August 6, 2025
Professor Elizabeth Varon writes column for History News Network (opens in a new tab)
May 5, 2025
History Professor David Singerman and History Grad Katie Wu named in UVA Teaching and Student Teaching Awards! (opens in a new tab)
May 1, 2025
Professor Grace Hale received a National Humanities Center Fellowship Award
April 22, 2025
Professor Neeti Nair wins Kentish Coomaraswamy Prize (opens in a new tab)
March 21, 2025
Professor Justene Hill Edwards has won the Harold F. WIlliamson Prize (opens in a new tab)
March 17, 2025
Professor Melissa Vise has published a New Book (opens in a new tab)
December 17, 2024
Professor Christian McMillien's research was featured in an ABC News Podcast (opens in a new tab)
December 2, 2024
Samuel Thomas Crowe Announced as Latest Rhodes Scholar (opens in a new tab)
November 14, 2024
Professor Sarah Milov Has A Published Research Article (opens in a new tab)
November 12, 2024
Professor Elizabeth Varon has been awarded "2024 Bell Award for the Best Book on Georgia History" by the Georgia Historical Society (opens in a new tab)
November 11, 2024
Professor Justene Hill Edwards has been selected as a Research Fellow
October 31, 2024
Professor Justene Hill Edwards earns spot on The New York Times "I Recommend This Week" (opens in a new tab)
October 11, 2024
Postdoctoral Research Associate Justin McBrien writes for TIME (opens in a new tab)
September 30, 2024
Congratulations to PhD Crystal Luo for Best Dissertation (opens in a new tab)
September 3, 2024
Welcome the Visiting Associate Professor Melissa Vise (opens in a new tab)
August 2, 2024
Professor Joseph Seeley selected for the 2024-2025 U.S.-Korea NextGen Scholars Program (opens in a new tab)
June 27, 2024
Professor Elizabeth Varon wins inaugural American Battlefield Trust Prize for History (opens in a new tab)
June 27, 2024
Professor Joseph Seeley discusses the Korean War on its 75th Anniversary for UVA Lifetime Learning (opens in a new tab)
June 20, 2024
Professor Deborah S. Kang featured in Mother Jones Article (opens in a new tab)
June 11, 2024
Professor Justene Hill Edwards featured in WalletHub article (opens in a new tab)
June 1, 2024
Professor S. Deborah Kang discuss the Border Patrol involvement in asylum processing in Public Books (opens in a new tab)
May 15, 2024
Professor Neeti Nair awarded 2024-25 Woodrow Wilson Center Residential Fellowship
May 15, 2024
Professor Erik Linstrum awarded 2024-25 Huntington Library Fellowship
April 11, 2024
Professor Andrew Kahrl discusses how local tax systems fuel inequality in New York Times (opens in a new tab)
April 10, 2024
New book, After Emancipation: Racism and Resistance at the University of Virginia
April 5, 2024
Loretta Dredger awarded Harrison Undergraduate Research Award
April 5, 2024
Professor Penny Von Eschen interviewed on American Prestige Podcast (opens in a new tab)
February 27, 2024
Linstrum in Liberation (opens in a new tab)
February 22, 2024
Professor Elizabeth Varon's latest book finalist for an LA Times Book Prize!
February 20, 2024
Bethany Bell wins "Memphis State Eight" third paper prize at GAAAH
February 20, 2024
Professor Claudrena Harold featured in PBS docuseries, Gospel.
February 20, 2024
Professor Grace Hale reviews Dawoud Bey: Elegy in her Southern Cultures' series, Shutter
February 19, 2024
Professor Joshua White awarded National Endowment for Humanities Grant (opens in a new tab)
February 19, 2024
Professor Neeti Nair discusses latest book in conversation with the Socio-Legal Review
February 17, 2024
Professor Neet Nair recently quoted in The Print (opens in a new tab)
February 17, 2024
Professor Justene Hill Edwards discusses Freedman's Bank and forthcoming book on NPR'S Marketplace (opens in a new tab)
February 16, 2024
Professor Kristina Richardson selected as 2024-2025 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar
February 8, 2024
Professor Grace Hale' book talk with UVA Lifetime Learning happening Feb. 13
February 8, 2024
Professor Emeritus Brian Balogh discusses the history of NIMBYism in new articles in TIME and the Atlantic
February 2, 2024
Professor Neeti Nair's new opinion piece for Newslaundry remembers Gandhi on the anniversary of his assassination
January 16, 2024
Erik Linstrum’s Age of Emergency reviewed in The Times Literary Supplement
January 10, 2024
Professor Kyrill Kunakhovich's Communism’s Public Sphere shortlisted for the Waterloo Center for German Studies Book Prize
December 17, 2023
Professor Chris Gratien discusses acclaimed book on the Indian Ocean World Podcast
December 13, 2023
Professor Elizabeth Varon discusses new book on Key Battles of American History podcast
November 28, 2023
History Department Selects Finger Family Undergraduate Research Awardee and Research Assistantships
November 17, 2023
Professor Grace Elizabeth Hale's new book, In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning!
October 23, 2023
Professor Brian P. Owensby wins AHA's Friedrich Katz Prize in Latin American and Caribbean history
October 23, 2023
Professor Christian McMillen selected as 2023-2024 IATH Resident Fellow
October 20, 2023
Professor Olivier Zunz awarded the Prix littéraire de biographie historique Brantôme
October 20, 2023
Professor Erik Linstrum's Age of Emergency selected as editor's choice for September 2023 in the EuropeNow Journal
October 19, 2023
Professor S. Deborah Kang newly published article “Sovereign Mercy: The Legalization of the White Russian Refugees and the Politics of Immigration Relief” in the Journal of American Ethnic History
October 19, 2023
Professor Christian McMillen's research on Colorado River and tribal water rights featured in ProPublica and High County News joint article
July 17, 2023
Justin T. Winokur explains "the Cold War trap" in Foreign Affairs article
April 29, 2023
Professor Justene Hill Edwards discusses the history of slavery at UVA on Legal Knowledge podcast
April 29, 2023
'Democracy in Danger' podcast wins Webby Award (opens in a new tab)
April 6, 2023
Professor Bradly Reed wins this year's UVA AAPI Advancement Award
April 6, 2023
Professor Thomas Klubock wins the Whitaker Book Prize from the Mid-Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies
March 23, 2023
Professor Philip D. Zelikow discusses reasons for sending Russia's frozen $300 billion to Ukraine in co-authored Washington Post piece (opens in a new tab)
March 14, 2023
UVAToday highlights remarkable History graduate students' work through partnership between the GAGE Initiative and Washington Post (opens in a new tab)
March 13, 2023
Professor Neeti Nair discusses the state of democracy in India on TVO Today's current affairs program, "The Agenda"
March 10, 2023
Professor Neeti Nair's new book, Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia
March 4, 2023
Musa K. Azimli selected as 2023 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellow
March 1, 2023
Professor John Edwin Mason discusses Visions of Progress on PBS NewHour
February 10, 2023
Professor Kristina Richardson awarded 2023 Monica H. Green Prize for Distinguished Medieval Research
February 3, 2023
Professor Melvyn P. Leffler new book, Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq
February 3, 2023
Brianna Frakes explains how resistance to the Emancipation Proclamation is important to understanding the contemporary moment
January 31, 2023
Professor Justene Hill Edwards featured in WalletHub article
January 26, 2023
Professor Cong Ellen Zhang co-edited and co-translated, Chinese Autobiography Writing: An Anthology of Personal Accounts
January 26, 2023
Bethany Bell discusses the UCD's legacy of shaping school curriculum amidst FL Governor's rejection of AP AfAm studies course
January 26, 2023
Marc J. Selverstone new book, The Kennedy Withdrawal: Camelot and the American Commitment to Vietnam
January 23, 2023
Professor Kyrill Kunakhovich's new book, Communism's Public Sphere
December 8, 2022
Professor James Loeffler recently published article in Harvard Theological Review
December 3, 2022
Professor Chris Gratien Co-Winner of Nikki Keddie Book Award
December 1, 2022
Professor J.E. Lendon's book chosen as a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year.
November 29, 2022
Professor Olivier Zunz awarded the Grand Prix de la Biographie Politique
November 10, 2022
Alumna Lauren Haumesser's new book, The Democratic Collapse: How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation 1856-1861
November 10, 2022
Professor Laurent Dubois featured on My New Favorite Futbolista
November 10, 2022
Professor Philip Zelikow quoted in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times
October 27, 2022
Professor Justene Hill Edwards featured in The Washington Post
October 6, 2022
Professor John Edwin Mason featured in The Washington Post
September 29, 2022
Professor Neeti Nair guest edited a special issue of Asian Affairs on “Citizenship, Belonging, and the Partition of India.”
September 26, 2022
Professor John Edwin Mason's curated exhibition, "Visions of Progress: Portraits of Dignity, Style, and Racial Uplift" featured in UVAToday
September 9, 2022
Professor S. Deborah Kang appointed to OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program
September 8, 2022
Doctoral Candidates Justin Winokur and Matt Frakes named 2022-2023 National Security Policy Center Fellows
August 29, 2022
Professor Corinne T. Field new co-edited volume, The Global History of Black Girlhood
July 25, 2022
Stefan Lund (UVA PhD 2022) discusses the history of mob violence in the United States in new "Made By History" article.
July 19, 2022
Professor Cynthia Nicoletti wins The Journal of the Civil War Era's George and Ann Richards Prize
July 8, 2022
Professor Sarah Milov's recent New York Times opinion piece, "The End of the Illusion That Smoking is a Choice"
July 7, 2022
Professor Alan Taylor presents as Keynote speakers at Bavarian American Academy Conference
July 4, 2022
Professor Penny M. Von Eschen's new book, Paradoxes of Nostalgia
June 29, 2022
History Department Faculty contribute to SUMMER JEFFERSON SYMPOSIUM 2022
June 15, 2022
Professor Elizabeth R. Varon provides historical context to the January 6th insurrection
June 9, 2022
Jeremy Nelson examines ways Civil War Americans used animal references in Nau Civil War Center Blog Post
June 2, 2022
Thomas Storrs reviews Rebecca K. Marchiel's "After Redlining"
June 1, 2022
Call for papers: 2022 Legacies of Slavery Landscapes of Segregation, Universities Studying Slavery Conference
May 30, 2022
Professor Caroline E. Janney delivers keynote address at Memorial Day service
May 27, 2022
Professor Laurent Dubois discusses the long-term implications of the U.S. occupation of Haiti in the 20th century on Clauses and Controversies Podcast
May 23, 2022
Professor Laurent Dubois featured in Envision Magazine article, "The Future is History"
May 23, 2022
UvaToday profiled retiring professors Brian Balogh, Herbert “Tico” Braun, George Gilliam, and Olivier Zunz
May 23, 2022
Nicholas Scott discusses how Chile’s constitutional convention is incorporating a series of social rights reforms into its proposed constitution
May 23, 2022
Professor Philip Zelikow published a commentary in Lawfare entitled, "A Legal Approach to the Transfer of Russian Assets to Rebuild Ukraine"
May 19, 2022
Amy Fedeski selected as Alfred and Isabel Bader Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish History
May 13, 2022
Professor S. Deborah Kang on the racist origins of fed. immigration law on Democracy in Danger podcast
May 11, 2022
Professor Neeti Nair's new article, "What Might Gandhi Have Done Today"
May 11, 2022
Professor Justene Hill Edwards featured in UVAToday (opens in a new tab)
May 9, 2022
Elena Symmes receives the Boren Fellowship for research in South Korea
May 9, 2022
Thomas Storrs writes on redlining and federal housing programs cited in White House's "Economic Report of the President."
May 6, 2022
Clayton Butler (UVA PhD 2020) accepts position as Marketing and Sales Associate at UVA Press
May 3, 2022
Ian Iverson accepts job as Editorial Specialist for the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition
April 27, 2022
Nicholas Scott discusses how Chile's current constitutional convention has resumed the unfinished business of the Chilean Revolution
April 26, 2022
Professor Claudrena Harold selected keynote speaker for the May 21st graduation ceremony for the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences! (opens in a new tab)
April 26, 2022
Justene Hill Edwards among 2022 Andrew Carnegie Fellows Recipients (opens in a new tab)
April 25, 2022
Nicholas Scott awarded the Frank Finger Graduate Fellowship for Teaching
April 25, 2022
Professor Olivier Zunz's new book, he Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville
April 20, 2022
Professor Philip Zelikow co-authored essay, "How Ukraine Can Build Back Better" in Foreign Affairs Magazine
April 8, 2022
Professor Sarah Milov among Princeton's University Center for Human Values 2022-2023 Visiting Faculty Fellows
April 8, 2022
Professor Kyrill Kunakhovich provides historical context to the war in Ukraine on UVA Speaks podcast
April 8, 2022
Professor Justene Hill Edwards participated in a conversation about Slavery, Capitalism, and Empire as a part of the Schomburg Center's Conversations in Black Freedom Series
April 6, 2022
Brian Neumann's new book, Bloody Flag of Anarchy: Unionism in South Carolina during the Nullification Crisis
April 6, 2022
Clayton Butler's new book, True Blue: White Unionists in the Deep South during the Civil War and Reconstruction
April 6, 2022
Dean Goluboff Testifies at Supreme Court Nomination Hearings
April 6, 2022
Professor Claudrena Harold discusses her book, When Sunday Comes, at the annual series “Encounters:” Conversations on Racism, Antisemitism, and Islamophobia.
March 28, 2022
Professor Karen Parshall featured in UVaToday “Faculty Spotlight” series (opens in a new tab)
March 28, 2022
Professor James Loeffler recently published three articles discussing the history and memory of the concept of genocide
March 23, 2022
Professor Alan Taylor appeared on The Washington Times' "History As It Happens" podcast to discuss the role of this country's founding generation
March 17, 2022
Professor John Edwin Mason discusses Holsinger Portrait Project's pop-up exhibit in UVA Today article. (opens in a new tab)
March 17, 2022
Crystal Luo tells the history behind one of the loudest pro-police voices in the convo on anti-Asian violence, Carl Chan and the Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce
March 15, 2022
Audrius Rickus has some valuable insight into President Vladimir Putin’s “de-nazification” claims
March 15, 2022
Professor Chris Gratien's new book, The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier
March 15, 2022
Professor James Loeffler new article, "The First Genocide: Antisemitism and Universalism in Raphael Lemkin’s Thought"
March 7, 2022
The New Negro in Charlottesville and Albemarle: Portraits from a Century Ago Pop-Up exhibit
March 7, 2022
Professor J. E. Lendon's New Book, That Tyrant, Persuasion: How Rhetoric Shaped the Roman World
February 28, 2022
Professor Kyrill Kunakhovich shares insight about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with UVA Today (opens in a new tab)
February 24, 2022
Professor Emeritus Michael Holt Discusses President Franklin Pierce in CBS Sunday Morning Segment
February 24, 2022
Olivia Paschal discusses the Black Press as a model for how mainstream news can better cover racism
February 22, 2022
Professor Caroline Janney awarded the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize
February 22, 2022
Professor Karen Parshall's new book, The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920–1950, published by Princeton University Press
February 21, 2022
Professor Karen Parshall featured in newest issue of Notices of the American Mathematical Society (AMS)
February 14, 2022
Professor Philip Zelikow featured in the NYT (opens in a new tab)
February 14, 2022
Professor Sarah Milov on the podcast, This Day in Esoteric Political History
February 14, 2022
Professor Justene Hill Edwards discussing her book on UVA's Lifetime Learning Program podcast
February 9, 2022
Professor and Co-Director of the Holsinger Portrait Project, John Mason, awarded grant from the Jefferson Trust
February 7, 2022
Allison Mitchell discusses the civil rights movement and how economic demands of Black people were resurrected.
February 4, 2022
Meghan Herwig considers whether a diplomatic boycott of the Olympics will change human rights in China.
February 1, 2022
Professor Sarah Milov was interviewed by The Long View, and spoke about tobacco and social media whistleblowing
January 28, 2022
Professor Thomas Klubock Publishes New Book, Ránquil: Rural Rebellion, Political Violence, and Historical Memory in Chile
January 27, 2022
History Post-doc Justin McBrien explains why disaster films won't spur climate change action in his Op Ed in The Washington Post.
January 26, 2022
The history of slavery at UVA exhibit, written and researched by Ian Iverson and Joshua Morrison, on display in Pavilion X.
January 21, 2022
Professor Neeti Nair on NPR's All Things Considered
January 8, 2022
Professor Neeti Nair on Hate Speeches in Haridwar
December 23, 2021
Professor Brian Owensby Publishes New Book, New World of Gain: Europeans, Guaraní, and the Global Origins of Modern Economy
December 15, 2021
Professor Fahad Bishara Featured in Special Issue of The Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (JESHO)
December 15, 2021
Professors Xiaoyuan Liu and Joseph Seeley on the legacies of the Pearl Harbor attack for US involvement in East Asia (opens in a new tab)
December 15, 2021
New Chinese Translation of Professor Brad Reed’s book, Talons and Teeth: County Clerks and Runners in the Qing Dynasty
December 15, 2021
Inside HIST 2214: The Cold War with Professor Hitchcock
December 3, 2021
Professor Alan Taylor's Book Mentioned in the New York Times Magazine (opens in a new tab)
December 3, 2021
Professor Grace Hale's new book named top book of the year on Georgia history by the Georgia Historical Society (opens in a new tab)
November 23, 2021
Professor Caroline Janney discusses her new book and receives praise in Wall Street Journal Review
November 17, 2021
Professor Neeti Nair appointed to John W. Kluge Center's inaugural alumni advisory board. (opens in a new tab)
November 3, 2021
Professor Andrew Kahrl on the Historical Struggles of Black families
October 6, 2021
Thomas Storrs' Research Featured in the National Bureau of Economic Research
October 6, 2021
Professor Laurent Dubois on Haiti
September 4, 2021
Professor Claudrena Harold discusses the impact of working people this labor day, with NPR. (opens in a new tab)
July 28, 2021
Professor Justene Hill Edwards on the Complicated Legacy of Black Patriotism
July 12, 2021
Professor Laurent Dubois reflects on recent events in Haiti
July 12, 2021
Professor Liz Varon in the Washington Post
July 12, 2021
Professor Laurent Dubois Discusses Recent Events in Haiti with NBC News (opens in a new tab)
July 3, 2021
New Books by Professors Justene Hill Edwards, Alan Taylor, and Philip Zelikow on UVA Today’s Recommended Summer Reading List (opens in a new tab)
June 23, 2021
Professor Max Edelson discusses his book, New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America before Independence.
June 17, 2021
Professor Neeti Nair’s Indian Express Op-Ed Discusses the Demolition of the National Archives
June 17, 2021
Professor Jennifer Sessions on the Margueritte revolt in Algeria
May 21, 2021
Faculty Messages to the Class of 2021
May 17, 2021
Professors Sarah Milov and Brad Reed Win UVA Student Council's 2021 Teaching Awards
May 13, 2021
Professor Erik Linstrum Featured in Libération
May 13, 2021
Citizenship, Belonging, and the Partition of India Symposium
May 13, 2021
Professor Liz Varon elected into to the Fellows of the Society of American Historians!
April 22, 2021
Professor Laurent Dubois featured on NPR’s A1.
April 11, 2021
Professor John Mason Awarded 3 Cavaliers Grant!
April 4, 2021
Symposium on Citizenship, Belonging and the Partition of India—April 9th
April 4, 2021
Richard Barnett's North India Between Empires: Awadh, the Mughals, and the British 1729-1801 a “Manohar Classic.”
March 30, 2021
Professor James Loeffler Reviews Eric D. Weitz’s A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States
March 30, 2021
Congratulations to Professor Caroline Janney on the publication of the edited collection, Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America.
March 18, 2021
Professor Philip Zelikow publishes new book on World War I!
March 7, 2021
UVA Historians and Researchers Weigh in on Fourth Annual Liberation and Freedom Day
February 26, 2021
Professor Erik Linstrum on how and why we pursue the history of colonial violence
February 5, 2021
Andrew Kahrl on How How Property Taxes Fuel Racial Inequality
February 5, 2021
Adrian Brettle Named Finalist for Lincoln Prize
February 5, 2021
Mel Leffler on the Significant Threats that Climate Change and Pandemics Pose to National Security
January 29, 2021
Neeti Nair Discusses “Hurt Sentiments” and Forbidden Speech in India on the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy’s Podcast
January 26, 2021
Philip Zelikow on A Practical Path to Condemn and Disqualify Donald Trump
January 22, 2021
Carrie Janney on the Evolution of the post-Civil War Lost Cause Mythology
January 22, 2021
Liz Varon's Washington Post Op-Ed on the parallels between Presidents Andrew Johnson and Donald Trump
January 22, 2021
Will Hitchcock's and Siva Vaidhyanathan's Democracy in Danger Podcast Reflects on the Capitol Hill Riot of January 6th
November 20, 2020
Department News Wrap-Up 11/20/2020
November 13, 2020
Prof. Claudrena Harold Publishes New Book "When Sunday Comes" (opens in a new tab)
November 12, 2020
UVA 4+1 Program Announcement
November 10, 2020
Spring 2021 Course Descriptions (opens in a new tab)
October 29, 2020
Prof. Neeti Nair Speaks at MIT Starr Forum (opens in a new tab)
October 29, 2020
Prof. Philip Zelikow Elected to American Academy of Diplomacy (opens in a new tab)
October 22, 2020
Prof. Justene Hill-Edwards Featured on "Racism: Challenging Perceptions" (opens in a new tab)
October 21, 2020
Prof. Will Hitchcock Publishes Op-Ed with CNN (opens in a new tab)
October 16, 2020
Prof. Sarah Milov Awarded Willie Lee Rose Prize (opens in a new tab)
October 15, 2020
Prof. Brian Owensby Interviewed by Toynbee Prize Foundation (opens in a new tab)
October 8, 2020
Prof. Ellen Zhang Publishes New Book on Song China (opens in a new tab)
October 7, 2020
Prof. Jennifer Sessions Featured in Learning Tech Blog (opens in a new tab)
October 6, 2020
Prof. Grace Hale Featured in UVA's Faculty Spotlight (opens in a new tab)
October 2, 2020
Prof. Jennifer Sessions Interviewed for "The World" (opens in a new tab)
October 1, 2020
Prof. Christian McMillen Publishes Article with História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro (opens in a new tab)
September 16, 2020
History News Wrap-Up
September 2, 2020
Prof Neeti Nair Publishes Op-Ed with The Indian Express (opens in a new tab)
August 20, 2020
New Method for Declaring History Major and Minor
August 11, 2020
Prof Chad Diehl Publishes Article with TIME
August 9, 2020
NY Times Reviews Prof. Hale's New Book (opens in a new tab)
August 5, 2020
History News Wrap-Up, 8/5/2020
July 15, 2020
History News Wrap-Up 7/15/2020
July 1, 2020
History News Wrap-Up
June 17, 2020
Jotwell Publishes Review of Prof. Sarah Milov's Book (opens in a new tab)
June 17, 2020
Prof. Philip Zelikow Publishes Article with Foreign Affairs (opens in a new tab)
June 10, 2020
Prof. John Mason Publishes Essay with National Geographic (opens in a new tab)
June 9, 2020
Prof. Kevin Gaines for UVA Today Q&A (opens in a new tab)
June 3, 2020
Prof. Erik Linstrum Receives Berlin Prize (opens in a new tab)
June 3, 2020
Prof. Grace Hale Publishes Article with Washington Post (opens in a new tab)
May 26, 2020
History Grad Student Alexi Garrett Receives Graduate Teaching Award (opens in a new tab)
May 19, 2020
May 2020 Graduate Ceremony Video (opens in a new tab)
May 16, 2020
2020 Virtual Graduation Video
May 15, 2020
History Department To Hold Virtual Graduation Ceremony
May 6, 2020
Prof. Andrew Kahrl Publishes Op-ed with the Columbus Dispatch
May 6, 2020
Prof. Christian McMillan Publishes Article in Social History of Medicine (opens in a new tab)
May 6, 2020
Prof. Jim Loeffler Elected Permanent Fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research
April 21, 2020
UVA History MA 4+1 Program Applications
April 20, 2020
Prof. McMillen Publishes Column for The Indian Express (opens in a new tab)
April 20, 2020
Prof. Milov Awarded 2020 PROSE Award (opens in a new tab)
April 20, 2020
Prof. Edelson and Prof. Alff Awarded NEH Grants (opens in a new tab)
April 13, 2020
Los Angeles Review of Books Publishes Review of Prof. Hale's "Cool Town" (opens in a new tab)
April 13, 2020
Read an Excerpt from Prof. Braun's Coronavirus Journal (opens in a new tab)
April 9, 2020
Prof. Kahrl Publishes Op-Ed with City Lab (opens in a new tab)
February 13, 2020
Prof. Varon Wins Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize
January 22, 2020
Prof. Jim Loeffler Publishes Op-Ed with Forward
January 22, 2020
Prof. Neeti Nair Awarded Harry Frank Guggenheim Fellowship
January 15, 2020
Is War Coming? Teach-in on U.S.-Iran Crisis
January 14, 2020
Prof. Neeti Nair's Op-Ed in The Print and Ananda Bazar Patrika
December 19, 2019
Fall 2019 Department Wrap-Up
December 19, 2019
Prof. Neeti Nair Interviewed by Telegraph India on Citizenship Amendment Act and Protests in India (opens in a new tab)
November 20, 2019
Prof. John Mason Featured in UVA Faculty Spotlight Video (opens in a new tab)
November 13, 2019
Prof. Neeti Nair Interviewed by Telegraph India on Indian Supreme Court's Ayodhya Verdict (opens in a new tab)
October 28, 2019
Professor James Loeffler Wins The Dorothy Rosenberg Prize in the History of the Jewish Diaspora
October 5, 2019
Black Bus Stop to Show at New York Film Festival and London Film Festival
September 27, 2019
History News Wrap-Up 9/27/19
August 19, 2019
Prof. Grace Hale Interviewed for Woodstock 50th Anniversary Story (opens in a new tab)
April 5, 2019
Prof. Elizabeth Varon Publishes New Book on Civil War
December 10, 2018
History Wrap-Up 12/10/18
November 27, 2018
History Wrap-Up 11/27/18
October 31, 2018
PhD Graduate Tom Butcher Publishes Article in Washington Post (opens in a new tab)
October 22, 2018
Historian Kevin Gaines is UVA's First Julian Bond Professor (opens in a new tab)
October 22, 2018
Spring 2019 Course Descriptions
October 22, 2018
Philip Zelikow named Advisory Board member for Sine Institute of Policy and Politics at American University (opens in a new tab)
October 13, 2018
Prof. Hitchcock Publishes Article with The Washington Post (opens in a new tab)
September 14, 2018
This Week in History (9/14/18 edition)
August 3, 2018
Opening for Digital Humanities Graduate Research Assistant
April 25, 2018
Halsted Wins Henkel Stiftung Scholarship
April 23, 2018
Blair, Neumann, Saha, and McBrien Named 2018 Jefferson Fellows
April 23, 2018
Goluboff and Miller Elected to AAAS (opens in a new tab)
April 16, 2018
Cohen & Thompson Win Mellon / ALCS Fellowships (opens in a new tab)
April 16, 2018
L. Kent Merritt Wins Distinguished Service Award
April 16, 2018
Balogh Discusses History of Privacy on Here and Now (opens in a new tab)
April 9, 2018
Swati Chawla Wins Graduate Teaching Award
April 9, 2018
Justin McBrien Wins Finger Graduate Teaching Fellowship
April 9, 2018
Tom Klubock Wins Guggenheim (opens in a new tab)
March 29, 2018
Balogh Discuss Sports Underdogs on Here and Now (opens in a new tab)
March 23, 2018
2018 Phi Beta Inductees Named
March 19, 2018
Chris Whitehead Named Fellow in Praxis Program
March 19, 2018
Balogh Discusses Tillerson Firing on Here and Now (opens in a new tab)
March 19, 2018
Bishara Interviewed on H-Law Podcast (opens in a new tab)
March 15, 2018
Chawla Publishes Chapter in Edited Volume (opens in a new tab)
March 15, 2018
Evans & McCormick in the Washington Post (opens in a new tab)
March 12, 2018
Edelson's Book Named Finalist for George Washington Prize
March 12, 2018
Prof. McMillan to become Dean McMillan (opens in a new tab)
March 5, 2018
Chang Wins Dissertation Fellowship from IHGC
February 28, 2018
Hitchcock Writes WaPo Article on Ike and Billy Graham (opens in a new tab)
February 22, 2018
Swati Chawla Helps Train New RAs
February 19, 2018
History Grad Students Win VFH Public Fellowships
February 19, 2018
Hitchcock, Balogh, and Others on the Most Important Presidential Speeches (opens in a new tab)
February 15, 2018
Brian Balogh Talks to Here & Now about the History of Politics and the Olympics (opens in a new tab)
February 12, 2018
Swati Chawla Wins IHS Fellowship (opens in a new tab)
February 1, 2018
Europe Now: Campus Spotlight on UVa (opens in a new tab)
February 1, 2018
Brian Balogh Talks to Here & Now about the History of the State of the Union (opens in a new tab)
January 31, 2018
Karen Parshall Receives 2018 AMS Whiteman Prize (opens in a new tab)
January 8, 2018
Balogh Talks to Here & Now About Partisanship in the US (opens in a new tab)
December 29, 2017
Lee Accepted to 2018 Asia-Pacific Nuclear History Institute (opens in a new tab)
December 22, 2017
Balogh Speaks to Here&Now about Words and American Politics (opens in a new tab)
December 11, 2017
Fredrickson Wins Dissertation Award (opens in a new tab)
December 11, 2017
Balogh Speaks with Here&Now On Apologies in American History (opens in a new tab)
December 4, 2017
DMP Bernstein Writes on HUD for Washington Post (opens in a new tab)
December 4, 2017
Undergraduates Tackle Public History (opens in a new tab)
November 20, 2017
Erlandson Writes on Red Tape and Deregulation for WaPo (opens in a new tab)
November 13, 2017
Balogh Interviewed on Off-Year Elections for Here&Now (opens in a new tab)
November 13, 2017
Hampel Dedicates Book to Prof. Michael Holt (opens in a new tab)
November 2, 2017
Alumnus Frank Cirillo Writes for WaPo (opens in a new tab)
October 18, 2017
Balogh on Health in the Washington Post (opens in a new tab)
October 18, 2017
Video of Oct 11th "A Recent History of the Alt-Right" Talk (opens in a new tab)
October 14, 2017
Balogh Featured on NPR's Here & Now (opens in a new tab)
October 14, 2017
Balogh on Sports, Politics, and Race (opens in a new tab)
October 11, 2017
Linstrum Wins 2017 George Louis Beer Prize (opens in a new tab)
October 11, 2017
Careers Beyond the Tenure Track
October 10, 2017
Leffler Writes for USA Today and Foreign Policy
October 10, 2017
Nair Writes on Gandhi for the Huffington Post India (opens in a new tab)
October 9, 2017
BackStory and the UVa Bicentennial (opens in a new tab)
October 4, 2017
Brian Balogh on Here&Now (opens in a new tab)
October 4, 2017
"Inside A&S" Writes about Rosenwald, Milov, Davision, and Others (opens in a new tab)
September 21, 2017
John Mason Speaks on the Charlottesville Rally and Events of August 11-12
September 15, 2017
Video of "Civil War Memory: Charlottesville and Beyond" Conversation (opens in a new tab)
September 14, 2017
Brian Balogh Speaks to Here & Now (opens in a new tab)
September 13, 2017
Andrew Kahrl Writes for the Washington Post (opens in a new tab)
September 13, 2017
Graduate Students Write on Charlottesville for The Slate (opens in a new tab)
September 13, 2017
Undergrad DMP Gobar Writes for the Washington Post (opens in a new tab)
September 11, 2017
Balogh Interviews Karl Rove (opens in a new tab)
September 7, 2017
Claudrena Harold film screening at MIT List Visual Arts Center
September 4, 2017
Prof. Hill Interviewed for NPR's "Truth, Politics, and Power" Podcast (opens in a new tab)
August 28, 2017
McBrien Writes on Farmers and Climate Change for Washington Post (opens in a new tab)
August 23, 2017
Brian Balogh on CNN.com (opens in a new tab)
August 21, 2017
Brian Balogh Talks to WBUR Boston About Charlottesville White Nationalist Rally (opens in a new tab)
August 21, 2017
Philip Zelikow Writes for The LawFare Blog (opens in a new tab)
August 21, 2017
Elizabeth Varon Writes on the Civil War and Charlottesville Events for the Washington Post (opens in a new tab)
August 21, 2017
Waitman Beorn Speaks to Forbes about the Imagery of Torches in Nazi Germany (opens in a new tab)
August 21, 2017
Grace Hale On "It's Been a Minute with Sam Sanders" Podcast (opens in a new tab)
May 15, 2017
Almog and Chawla Receive Humane Studies Fellowship (opens in a new tab)
May 8, 2017
Chawla, Givens-Johnson, and Saha Receive CGII Awards (opens in a new tab)
May 8, 2017
History Graduate Students Receive Mercatus Center Fellowships
April 5, 2017
Maternowski Wins Class of 1985 Teaching Fellowship
March 29, 2017
Erik Linstrum Featured on With Good Reason (opens in a new tab)
March 15, 2017
C-SPAN 3 Airs Explorations in Black Leadership Interviews
March 2, 2017
Lawton Receives Fred W. Smith National Library Fellowship (opens in a new tab)
February 27, 2017
Cirillo Receives New York Historical Society Postdoctoral Fellowship (opens in a new tab)
January 25, 2017
Prof. Sarah Milov Featured on "With Good Reason" (opens in a new tab)
October 12, 2016
UVa History Majors Intern with the Institute of Public History (opens in a new tab)
September 5, 2016
Ambuske Begins Horatio and Florence Farmer Postdoctoral Fellowship at Law Library (opens in a new tab)
May 19, 2016
Almog and Garmon awarded Humane Studies Fellowships (opens in a new tab)
May 10, 2016
Garmon and Chawla awarded Adam Smith Fellowships (opens in a new tab)
May 5, 2016
Evans and Lindberg receive Graduate Teaching Awards
May 5, 2016
Chawla on Decolonisation (opens in a new tab)
April 28, 2016
Garrett receives CNA-EULAC Fellowship
April 26, 2016
Graduate Prefessionalization Seminar
April 25, 2016
Lambert awarded Cory Teaching Award
April 25, 2016
Taylor '14 published in Canadian Encyc. (opens in a new tab)
April 25, 2016
Taylor Elected to American Academy
April 24, 2016
Chawla and UVa Team Receive USAID Grant (opens in a new tab)
April 21, 2016
Nichols, PhD '08, named Carnegie Fellow
April 14, 2016
Grinspan on Voting in NYT
April 13, 2016
Cross Lecture - Gary Gallagher - "All About Us: Projection, Wishful Thinking, and Anachronism in Recent Civil War Scholarship"
April 11, 2016
NYTimes covers Onuf book (opens in a new tab)
April 11, 2016
Butcher awarded Seven Society Fellowship
March 31, 2016
Freeman awarded ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship (opens in a new tab)
March 31, 2016
New Phi Beta Kappa Members
March 31, 2016
Fredrickson awarded Miller Center Fellowship (opens in a new tab)
March 31, 2016
Fredrickson on Lead Poisoning
March 31, 2016
Four IHGC Clay Fellowships awarded
March 28, 2016
Chawla wins Huskey Prize (opens in a new tab)
March 22, 2016
McBrien - Resident Scholar at Oregon State (opens in a new tab)
March 22, 2016
Milov on VA smoking bill (opens in a new tab)
March 17, 2016
Reed receives Teaching Award
March 15, 2016
Stolz on Fukushima
March 14, 2016
Balogh on Trump - BBC (opens in a new tab)
March 14, 2016
Lantz awarded Smith ICJS Fellowship
March 14, 2016
Barton appointed Dartmouth Fellow
March 14, 2016
Chapin book awarded Gomory Prize
March 14, 2016
Hatter book awarded Cowan Prize
March 7, 2016
BackStory covered by Perspectives on History (opens in a new tab)
March 3, 2016
History DMP info session 3/17/16
March 3, 2016
NYMag covers Linstrum's Book (opens in a new tab)
February 29, 2016
BackStory on #OscarsSoWhite (opens in a new tab)
February 18, 2016
Undergraduate Harrison Fellows
February 8, 2016
Nair awarded Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship
February 3, 2016
AHA covers NHC briefing (opens in a new tab)
February 3, 2016
Rosenwald on Conservative Media
January 29, 2016
Balogh on CSPAN (opens in a new tab)
January 26, 2016
Mason and Gordon Parks
January 19, 2016
Recent PhD defenses
January 13, 2016
Cohen on Lotteries
January 11, 2016
Klubock receives Bolton-Johnson Prize
January 4, 2016
Levy on Denazification
December 17, 2015
Hale wins NEH Digital Humanities Grant
December 17, 2015
Balogh featured in a Chronicle article
December 17, 2015
Bond Memorial Resolution
December 10, 2015
Balogh and Onuf on Wilson (opens in a new tab)
December 7, 2015
NEH Tocqueville Summer Seminar
December 7, 2015
Zunz at the Smithsonian
December 3, 2015
Milov on Global Warming
December 3, 2015
Klubock receives Weyerhaeuser Award
December 3, 2015
BackStory on "Birth of a Nation"
December 3, 2015
Klubock receives Weyerhaeuser Award
November 11, 2015
BackStory at History Film Forum
November 11, 2015
Carslon awarded Sally Hacker, Middleton Prizes
November 4, 2015
Balogh on Trump
November 1, 2015
Confino interviewed on Here and Now
October 22, 2015
Hartford Courant op-ed utilizing Kahrl's research
October 22, 2015
Nau Center for Civil War History Opens
September 21, 2015
Further remembrances of Julian Bond (opens in a new tab)
September 21, 2015
Gulfside Assembly, Kahrl
August 25, 2015
Barton, PhD Candidate, on Anarchism in Diplomatic History
August 25, 2015
Elias Interviewed for CNN Documentary
August 25, 2015
Leffler's Tribute to Julian Bond
May 12, 2015
Marquez awarded ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship
April 27, 2015
Thompson named fellow of the Carnegie Corporation of New York (opens in a new tab)
April 1, 2015
Ambuske awarded King George III Fellowship