A group of history majors and minors had the opportunity to explore different parts of Baltimore this month, and dig into local history alongside some the city’s historical experts. Students […]

JHU Arts & Sciences Weekly Newsletter, for October 25, 2023, featured none other than the History Department’s senior lecturer, Victoria Harms, in their “Faculty Focus” section: Describe your primary scholarship […]

Congratulations to H. Yumi Kim!  Her book, Madness in the Family, has been awarded the John King Fairbank Prize for best new book in East Asian History (since 1800) by the […]

Award Winning Undergraduate Thesis Writer Holly Nelson on the Importance of Undergraduate Research Over the past year, the History Department at Hopkins continued its effort to support and encourage undergraduate […]

In 2022, the Hopkins library acquired an almost complete collection of the Black Panther Party Newspaper for their archival database. Associate research professor at the Center for Africana studies, Stuart […]

The AHA On a chilly January morning, four graduate students from Johns Hopkins hopped on a train from Baltimore to Philadelphia. The conference app downloaded, scoured and even memorized, Laurence […]

Graduate student research has been supported in recent years by new endowments given or bequeathed by former faculty, or given by others in their honor. These funds highlight the notably […]

Enthusiastic congratulations to our colleague, Sarah Pearsall, who has been awarded an NEH Public Scholars grant to support the completion of her book, Freedom Round the Globe: A New History of […]

U.S. Navy Commander Ryan Mewett ’22 PhD was featured in the spring 2023 issue of Arts and Sciences Magazine for his research on naval history and his current work as a permanent military professor at the U.S. Naval Academy.