For more than a century, the Department of History has flourished as an intellectual community committed to intensive research, collaborative seminars, public engagement, and methodological innovation. We offer a top-ranked graduate program and a rigorous undergraduate major and minor, all of which prepare students to engage issues of vital personal and global significance.
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The department seeks to develop each student’s capacity for comparative reasoning and to deepen their understanding of global connections.
Faculty research ranges from medieval to modern history and emphasizes the histories of Europe, the United States, East Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East.
Congratulations to Professor Laura Mason for receiving an NEH fellowship to support her current book project “Jean-Baptiste Carrier in a Slave-Trading City: Atlantic World Violence and the French Revolution!”
Congratulations to Jessica Marie Johnson and the team at Keywords for Black Louisiana on receiving a $125,000 grant from the NHPRC Publishing Historical Records program, a program dedicated to supporting […]
A one-of-a-kind database is based on expertise from Professor Louis Hyman and other Hopkins researchers. Working with the museum curators and archivists, a treasure trove of employee insurance records dating back to the early 1900s for the B&O Railroad Museum, will now be able to be scanned and digitized using AI technology.