The History Department and Professor Emeritus Franklin Knight hosted a rum tasting on October 7th. Prof. Knight introduced everyone to the marvels, and history, of three selected Caribbean rums from […]

Keywords for Black Louisiana (K4BL) is thrilled to announce the launch of a digital collection of enslaved testimony from French- and Spanish-controlled Louisiana. Visit K4BL Keywords for Black Louisiana (K4BL, […]

Join us for the KSAS Open House for the History Department which will be held in Hodson 203 in two sessions: 3:00-3:30pm and 3:45-4:15pm. We hope to see you there!

Professor Lawrence Jackson, fellow parishioners, and colleagues in the Johns Hopkins Inheritance Baltimore initiative helped the South’s first Black Episcopal congregation convince Colonial Williamsburg to lend meaningful rare tapestry knitted, […]

Dorothy Ross, pioneering historian of the origins of modern social science and a professor emerita in the Johns Hopkins University Department of History, died last week. She was 87.

Warmest congratulations to our History majors, minors, and graduate students on your graduation!

Congratulations to History major Hilary Gallito on being awarded a Summer 2024 PURA (Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award) for her project proposal titled, “War, Women, and a Revolution: An Analysis of […]

As part of our History end-of-year reception festivities, we awarded the Kouguell, Butler, and Student Leadership Awards. This year, we split the Kouguell Prize between two outstanding undergraduate senior thesis […]

Congratulations to Jessica Newby for receiving a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship (DIF) to support her project, Kinship in Motion: Women & Slavery in 18th Century Rural Jamaica!!! Jessica is one […]

On April 12th, the History Department hosted “A More Expansive Age of Revolutions” workshop. They keynote was presented by Sir Christopher Clark, Regius Professor of History, Cambridge University. This event […]