Congratulations to Diego Javier Luis—the department’s inaugural Rohrbaugh Family Assistant Professor—has been awarded the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize by Harvard University Press for the Best First Book in Any […]

Congratulations to Professor Michael Kwass for being awarded a NEH fellowship to support his current research project “The Price of Freedom: Haiti’s Struggle for Sovereignty in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World!”

Congratulations to Professor Laura Mason for receiving a 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.

Hilary Gallito ’25 is studying the words of three remarkable Revolutionary-era women who wrote about America as it was being formed.

Need a change of scenery while you study for exams or wish to have a quick break?Stop by the History Department’s seminar room (Gilman 308), on Monday, Dec. 9th, between […]

Congratulations to emeritus professor, Richard L. Kagan, on the publication of his new book, THE INQQUISTION’S  INQUISITOR: HENRY CHARLES LEA OF  PHILADELPHIA, published last month by Penn Press. From Amazon: […]

Professor Anne Lester recently published a short article, in Perspectives on History, where she discussed the 2019 burning of the Notre-Dame cathedral in France, its historical significance, and the complex undertaking of rebuilding one of the most visited tourist sites in Europe.

The department congratulates recent alumna, Kelsey Moore.  Her dissertation, What the Dead Witnessed: Clearing Black Knowledges in Jim Crow South Carolina has won the 2024 American Religion Dissertation Prize! Congrats, Kelsey!