Please join the History Department in offering congratulations to Professor Michael Kwass, whose book Contraband has just won the Kenshur Prize of the Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Indiana University—now its third prize, to add to the Gilbert Chinard Prize from the Society for French Historical Studies and the Annibel Jenkins Biography prize from the […]

"The problem is not black culture. It is policy and politics, the very things that bind together the history of Ferguson and Baltimore and, for that matter, the rest of America." Click to read the full article.

Please join the history department in congratulating Nathan Connolly, who has just received the Liberty Legacy Foundation Award for his book A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida. The award is given by the Organization of American Historians for “the best book by a historian on the civil rights […]

Professor N.D.B. Connolly talked about his book A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida, in which he examines the relationship between race and property rights in the South during the Jim Crow era. This interview is part of Book TV’s College Series. Watch the video here.

The history department would like to congratulate senior Geordan Williams on winning the 2014 Kouguell Prize for his senior thesis, "Upon the Frontier: Self-Identification Among the Cairo Genizah’s Merchants in the Indian Ocean System."