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.

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!

Congratulations to Franklin W. Knight, Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor Emeritus of History, on receiving the American Historical Association (AHA) Award for Scholarly Distinction which is awarded to senior […]

Recently, 168 such historians gathered at Baltimore’s Museum of Industry to discuss interests, describe research in progress, and share resources and connections. Ten Johns Hopkins students plus one recent graduate were among them.

Associate Teaching Professor, Victoria Harms, has been selected as the recipient of the 2024 Transform Mid-Atlantic Alan G. Penczek Service-Learning Faculty Award in the 4-year private institution category. This award […]