June 27, 2024 Professor Elizabeth Varon wins inaugural American Battlefield Trust Prize for History June 27, 2024 Professor Joseph Seeley discusses the Korean War on its 75th Anniversary for UVA Lifetime Learning June 20, 2024 Professor Deborah S. Kang featured in Mother Jones Article June 11, 2024 Professor Justene Hill Edwards featured in WalletHub article June 1, 2024 Professor S. Deborah Kang discuss the Border Patrol involvement in asylum processing in Public Books May 15, 2024 Professor Neeti Nair awarded 2024-25 Woodrow Wilson Center Residential Fellowship May 15, 2024 Professor Erik Linstrum awarded 2024-25 Huntington Library Fellowship April 11, 2024 Professor Andrew Kahrl discusses how local tax systems fuel inequality in New York Times April 10, 2024 New book, After Emancipation: Racism and Resistance at the University of Virginia April 5, 2024 Loretta Dredger awarded Harrison Undergraduate Research Award April 5, 2024 Professor Penny Von Eschen interviewed on American Prestige Podcast February 27, 2024 Linstrum in Liberation February 22, 2024 Professor Elizabeth Varon's latest book finalist for an LA Times Book Prize! February 20, 2024 Bethany Bell wins "Memphis State Eight" third paper prize at GAAAH February 20, 2024 Professor Claudrena Harold featured in PBS docuseries, Gospel. February 20, 2024 Professor Grace Hale reviews Dawoud Bey: Elegy in her Southern Cultures' series, Shutter February 19, 2024 Professor Joshua White awarded National Endowment for Humanities Grant February 19, 2024 Professor Neeti Nair discusses latest book in conversation with the Socio-Legal Review February 17, 2024 Professor Neet Nair recently quoted in The Print February 17, 2024 Professor Justene Hill Edwards discusses Freedman's Bank and forthcoming book on NPR'S Marketplace February 16, 2024 Professor Kristina Richardson selected as 2024-2025 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar February 8, 2024 Professor Grace Hale' book talk with UVA Lifetime Learning happening Feb. 13 February 8, 2024 Professor Emeritus Brian Balogh discusses the history of NIMBYism in new articles in TIME and the Atlantic February 2, 2024 Professor Neeti Nair's new opinion piece for Newslaundry remembers Gandhi on the anniversary of his assassination January 16, 2024 Erik Linstrum’s Age of Emergency reviewed in The Times Literary Supplement January 10, 2024 Professor Kyrill Kunakhovich's Communism’s Public Sphere shortlisted for the Waterloo Center for German Studies Book Prize December 17, 2023 Professor Chris Gratien discusses acclaimed book on the Indian Ocean World Podcast December 13, 2023 Professor Elizabeth Varon discusses new book on Key Battles of American History podcast November 28, 2023 History Department Selects Finger Family Undergraduate Research Awardee and Research Assistantships November 17, 2023 Professor Grace Elizabeth Hale's new book, In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning! October 23, 2023 Professor Brian P. Owensby wins AHA's Friedrich Katz Prize in Latin American and Caribbean history October 23, 2023 Professor Christian McMillen selected as 2023-2024 IATH Resident Fellow October 20, 2023 Professor Olivier Zunz awarded the Prix littéraire de biographie historique Brantôme October 20, 2023 Professor Erik Linstrum's Age of Emergency selected as editor's choice for September 2023 in the EuropeNow Journal October 19, 2023 Professor S. Deborah Kang newly published article “Sovereign Mercy: The Legalization of the White Russian Refugees and the Politics of Immigration Relief” in the Journal of American Ethnic History October 19, 2023 Professor Christian McMillen's research on Colorado River and tribal water rights featured in ProPublica and High County News joint article July 17, 2023 Justin T. Winokur explains "the Cold War trap" in Foreign Affairs article April 29, 2023 Professor Justene Hill Edwards discusses the history of slavery at UVA on Legal Knowledge podcast April 29, 2023 'Democracy in Danger' podcast wins Webby Award April 6, 2023 Professor Bradly Reed wins this year's UVA AAPI Advancement Award April 6, 2023 Professor Thomas Klubock wins the Whitaker Book Prize from the Mid-Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies March 23, 2023 Professor Philip D. Zelikow discusses reasons for sending Russia's frozen $300 billion to Ukraine in co-authored Washington Post piece March 14, 2023 UVAToday highlights remarkable History graduate students' work through partnership between the GAGE Initiative and Washington Post March 13, 2023 Professor Neeti Nair discusses the state of democracy in India on TVO Today's current affairs program, "The Agenda" March 10, 2023 Professor Neeti Nair's new book, Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia March 4, 2023 Musa K. Azimli selected as 2023 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellow March 1, 2023 Professor John Edwin Mason discusses Visions of Progress on PBS NewHour February 10, 2023 Professor Kristina Richardson awarded 2023 Monica H. Green Prize for Distinguished Medieval Research February 3, 2023 Professor Melvyn P. Leffler new book, Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq February 3, 2023 Brianna Frakes explains how resistance to the Emancipation Proclamation is important to understanding the contemporary moment January 31, 2023 Professor Justene Hill Edwards featured in WalletHub article January 26, 2023 Professor Cong Ellen Zhang co-edited and co-translated, Chinese Autobiography Writing: An Anthology of Personal Accounts January 26, 2023 Bethany Bell discusses the UCD's legacy of shaping school curriculum amidst FL Governor's rejection of AP AfAm studies course January 26, 2023 Marc J. Selverstone new book, The Kennedy Withdrawal: Camelot and the American Commitment to Vietnam January 23, 2023 Professor Kyrill Kunakhovich's new book, Communism's Public Sphere December 8, 2022 Professor James Loeffler recently published article in Harvard Theological Review December 3, 2022 Professor Chris Gratien Co-Winner of Nikki Keddie Book Award December 1, 2022 Professor J.E. Lendon's book chosen as a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year. November 29, 2022 Professor Olivier Zunz awarded the Grand Prix de la Biographie Politique November 10, 2022 Alumna Lauren Haumesser's new book, The Democratic Collapse: How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation 1856-1861 November 10, 2022 Professor Laurent Dubois featured on My New Favorite Futbolista November 10, 2022 Professor Philip Zelikow quoted in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times October 27, 2022 Professor Justene Hill Edwards featured in The Washington Post October 6, 2022 Professor John Edwin Mason featured in The Washington Post September 29, 2022 Professor Neeti Nair guest edited a special issue of Asian Affairs on “Citizenship, Belonging, and the Partition of India.” September 26, 2022 Professor John Edwin Mason's curated exhibition, "Visions of Progress: Portraits of Dignity, Style, and Racial Uplift" featured in UVAToday September 9, 2022 Professor S. Deborah Kang appointed to OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program September 8, 2022 Doctoral Candidates Justin Winokur and Matt Frakes named 2022-2023 National Security Policy Center Fellows August 29, 2022 Professor Corinne T. Field new co-edited volume, The Global History of Black Girlhood July 25, 2022 Stefan Lund (UVA PhD 2022) discusses the history of mob violence in the United States in new "Made By History" article. July 19, 2022 Professor Cynthia Nicoletti wins The Journal of the Civil War Era's George and Ann Richards Prize July 8, 2022 Professor Sarah Milov's recent New York Times opinion piece, "The End of the Illusion That Smoking is a Choice" July 7, 2022 Professor Alan Taylor presents as Keynote speakers at Bavarian American Academy Conference July 4, 2022 Professor Penny M. Von Eschen's new book, Paradoxes of Nostalgia June 29, 2022 History Department Faculty contribute to SUMMER JEFFERSON SYMPOSIUM 2022 June 15, 2022 Professor Elizabeth R. Varon provides historical context to the January 6th insurrection June 9, 2022 Jeremy Nelson examines ways Civil War Americans used animal references in Nau Civil War Center Blog Post June 2, 2022 Thomas Storrs reviews Rebecca K. Marchiel's "After Redlining" June 1, 2022 Call for papers: 2022 Legacies of Slavery Landscapes of Segregation, Universities Studying Slavery Conference May 30, 2022 Professor Caroline E. Janney delivers keynote address at Memorial Day service May 27, 2022 Professor Laurent Dubois discusses the long-term implications of the U.S. occupation of Haiti in the 20th century on Clauses and Controversies Podcast May 23, 2022 Professor Laurent Dubois featured in Envision Magazine article, "The Future is History" May 23, 2022 UvaToday profiled retiring professors Brian Balogh, Herbert “Tico” Braun, George Gilliam, and Olivier Zunz May 23, 2022 Nicholas Scott discusses how Chile’s constitutional convention is incorporating a series of social rights reforms into its proposed constitution May 23, 2022 Professor Philip Zelikow published a commentary in Lawfare entitled, "A Legal Approach to the Transfer of Russian Assets to Rebuild Ukraine" May 19, 2022 Amy Fedeski selected as Alfred and Isabel Bader Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish History May 13, 2022 Professor S. Deborah Kang on the racist origins of fed. immigration law on Democracy in Danger podcast May 11, 2022 Professor Neeti Nair's new article, "What Might Gandhi Have Done Today" May 11, 2022 Professor Justene Hill Edwards featured in UVAToday May 9, 2022 Elena Symmes receives the Boren Fellowship for research in South Korea May 9, 2022 Thomas Storrs writes on redlining and federal housing programs cited in White House's "Economic Report of the President." May 6, 2022 Clayton Butler (UVA PhD 2020) accepts position as Marketing and Sales Associate at UVA Press May 3, 2022 Ian Iverson accepts job as Editorial Specialist for the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition April 27, 2022 Nicholas Scott discusses how Chile's current constitutional convention has resumed the unfinished business of the Chilean Revolution April 26, 2022 Professor Claudrena Harold selected keynote speaker for the May 21st graduation ceremony for the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences! April 26, 2022 Justene Hill Edwards among 2022 Andrew Carnegie Fellows Recipients April 25, 2022 Nicholas Scott awarded the Frank Finger Graduate Fellowship for Teaching April 25, 2022 Professor Olivier Zunz's new book, he Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville April 20, 2022 Professor Philip Zelikow co-authored essay, "How Ukraine Can Build Back Better" in Foreign Affairs Magazine April 8, 2022 Professor Sarah Milov among Princeton's University Center for Human Values 2022-2023 Visiting Faculty Fellows April 8, 2022 Professor Kyrill Kunakhovich provides historical context to the war in Ukraine on UVA Speaks podcast April 8, 2022 Professor Justene Hill Edwards participated in a conversation about Slavery, Capitalism, and Empire as a part of the Schomburg Center's Conversations in Black Freedom Series April 6, 2022 Brian Neumann's new book, Bloody Flag of Anarchy: Unionism in South Carolina during the Nullification Crisis April 6, 2022 Clayton Butler's new book, True Blue: White Unionists in the Deep South during the Civil War and Reconstruction April 6, 2022 Dean Goluboff Testifies at Supreme Court Nomination Hearings April 6, 2022 Professor Claudrena Harold discusses her book, When Sunday Comes, at the annual series “Encounters:” Conversations on Racism, Antisemitism, and Islamophobia. March 28, 2022 Professor Karen Parshall featured in UVaToday “Faculty Spotlight” series March 28, 2022 Professor James Loeffler recently published three articles discussing the history and memory of the concept of genocide March 23, 2022 Professor Alan Taylor appeared on The Washington Times' "History As It Happens" podcast to discuss the role of this country's founding generation March 17, 2022 Professor John Edwin Mason discusses Holsinger Portrait Project's pop-up exhibit in UVA Today article. March 17, 2022 Crystal Luo tells the history behind one of the loudest pro-police voices in the convo on anti-Asian violence, Carl Chan and the Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce March 15, 2022 Audrius Rickus has some valuable insight into President Vladimir Putin’s “de-nazification” claims March 15, 2022 Professor Chris Gratien's new book, The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier March 15, 2022 Professor James Loeffler new article, "The First Genocide: Antisemitism and Universalism in Raphael Lemkin’s Thought" March 7, 2022 The New Negro in Charlottesville and Albemarle: Portraits from a Century Ago Pop-Up exhibit March 7, 2022 Professor J. E. Lendon's New Book, That Tyrant, Persuasion: How Rhetoric Shaped the Roman World February 28, 2022 Professor Kyrill Kunakhovich shares insight about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with UVA Today February 24, 2022 Professor Emeritus Michael Holt Discusses President Franklin Pierce in CBS Sunday Morning Segment February 24, 2022 Olivia Paschal discusses the Black Press as a model for how mainstream news can better cover racism February 22, 2022 Professor Caroline Janney awarded the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize February 22, 2022 Professor Karen Parshall's new book, The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920–1950, published by Princeton University Press February 21, 2022 Professor Karen Parshall featured in newest issue of Notices of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) February 14, 2022 Professor Philip Zelikow featured in the NYT February 14, 2022 Professor Sarah Milov on the podcast, This Day in Esoteric Political History February 14, 2022 Professor Justene Hill Edwards discussing her book on UVA's Lifetime Learning Program podcast February 9, 2022 Professor and Co-Director of the Holsinger Portrait Project, John Mason, awarded grant from the Jefferson Trust February 7, 2022 Allison Mitchell discusses the civil rights movement and how economic demands of Black people were resurrected. February 4, 2022 Meghan Herwig considers whether a diplomatic boycott of the Olympics will change human rights in China. February 1, 2022 Professor Sarah Milov was interviewed by The Long View, and spoke about tobacco and social media whistleblowing January 28, 2022 Professor Thomas Klubock Publishes New Book, Ránquil: Rural Rebellion, Political Violence, and Historical Memory in Chile January 27, 2022 History Post-doc Justin McBrien explains why disaster films won't spur climate change action in his Op Ed in The Washington Post. January 26, 2022 The history of slavery at UVA exhibit, written and researched by Ian Iverson and Joshua Morrison, on display in Pavilion X. January 21, 2022 Professor Neeti Nair on NPR's All Things Considered January 8, 2022 Professor Neeti Nair on Hate Speeches in Haridwar December 23, 2021 Professor Brian Owensby Publishes New Book, New World of Gain: Europeans, Guaraní, and the Global Origins of Modern Economy December 15, 2021 Professor Fahad Bishara Featured in Special Issue of The Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (JESHO) December 15, 2021 Professors Xiaoyuan Liu and Joseph Seeley on the legacies of the Pearl Harbor attack for US involvement in East Asia December 15, 2021 New Chinese Translation of Professor Brad Reed’s book, Talons and Teeth: County Clerks and Runners in the Qing Dynasty December 15, 2021 Inside HIST 2214: The Cold War with Professor Hitchcock December 3, 2021 Professor Alan Taylor's Book Mentioned in the New York Times Magazine December 3, 2021 Professor Grace Hale's new book named top book of the year on Georgia history by the Georgia Historical Society November 23, 2021 Professor Caroline Janney discusses her new book and receives praise in Wall Street Journal Review November 17, 2021 Professor Neeti Nair appointed to John W. Kluge Center's inaugural alumni advisory board. November 3, 2021 Professor Andrew Kahrl on the Historical Struggles of Black families October 6, 2021 Thomas Storrs' Research Featured in the National Bureau of Economic Research October 6, 2021 Professor Laurent Dubois on Haiti September 4, 2021 Professor Claudrena Harold discusses the impact of working people this labor day, with NPR. July 28, 2021 Professor Justene Hill Edwards on the Complicated Legacy of Black Patriotism July 12, 2021 Professor Laurent Dubois reflects on recent events in Haiti July 12, 2021 Professor Liz Varon in the Washington Post July 12, 2021 Professor Laurent Dubois Discusses Recent Events in Haiti with NBC News July 3, 2021 New Books by Professors Justene Hill Edwards, Alan Taylor, and Philip Zelikow on UVA Today’s Recommended Summer Reading List June 23, 2021 Professor Max Edelson discusses his book, New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America before Independence. June 17, 2021 Professor Neeti Nair’s Indian Express Op-Ed Discusses the Demolition of the National Archives June 17, 2021 Professor Jennifer Sessions on the Margueritte revolt in Algeria May 21, 2021 Faculty Messages to the Class of 2021 May 17, 2021 Professors Sarah Milov and Brad Reed Win UVA Student Council's 2021 Teaching Awards May 13, 2021 Professor Erik Linstrum Featured in Libération May 13, 2021 Citizenship, Belonging, and the Partition of India Symposium May 13, 2021 Professor Liz Varon elected into to the Fellows of the Society of American Historians! April 22, 2021 Professor Laurent Dubois featured on NPR’s A1. April 11, 2021 Professor John Mason Awarded 3 Cavaliers Grant! April 4, 2021 Symposium on Citizenship, Belonging and the Partition of India—April 9th April 4, 2021 Richard Barnett's North India Between Empires: Awadh, the Mughals, and the British 1729-1801 a “Manohar Classic.” March 30, 2021 Professor James Loeffler Reviews Eric D. Weitz’s A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States March 30, 2021 Congratulations to Professor Caroline Janney on the publication of the edited collection, Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America. March 18, 2021 Professor Philip Zelikow publishes new book on World War I! March 7, 2021 UVA Historians and Researchers Weigh in on Fourth Annual Liberation and Freedom Day February 26, 2021 Professor Erik Linstrum on how and why we pursue the history of colonial violence February 5, 2021 Andrew Kahrl on How How Property Taxes Fuel Racial Inequality February 5, 2021 Adrian Brettle Named Finalist for Lincoln Prize February 5, 2021 Mel Leffler on the Significant Threats that Climate Change and Pandemics Pose to National Security January 29, 2021 Neeti Nair Discusses “Hurt Sentiments” and Forbidden Speech in India on the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy’s Podcast January 26, 2021 Philip Zelikow on A Practical Path to Condemn and Disqualify Donald Trump January 22, 2021 Carrie Janney on the Evolution of the post-Civil War Lost Cause Mythology January 22, 2021 Liz Varon's Washington Post Op-Ed on the parallels between Presidents Andrew Johnson and Donald Trump January 22, 2021 Will Hitchcock's and Siva Vaidhyanathan's Democracy in Danger Podcast Reflects on the Capitol Hill Riot of January 6th November 20, 2020 Department News Wrap-Up 11/20/2020 November 13, 2020 Prof. Claudrena Harold Publishes New Book "When Sunday Comes" November 12, 2020 UVA 4+1 Program Announcement November 10, 2020 Spring 2021 Course Descriptions October 29, 2020 Prof. Neeti Nair Speaks at MIT Starr Forum October 29, 2020 Prof. Philip Zelikow Elected to American Academy of Diplomacy October 22, 2020 Prof. Justene Hill-Edwards Featured on "Racism: Challenging Perceptions" October 21, 2020 Prof. Will Hitchcock Publishes Op-Ed with CNN October 16, 2020 Prof. Sarah Milov Awarded Willie Lee Rose Prize October 15, 2020 Prof. Brian Owensby Interviewed by Toynbee Prize Foundation October 8, 2020 Prof. Ellen Zhang Publishes New Book on Song China October 7, 2020 Prof. Jennifer Sessions Featured in Learning Tech Blog October 6, 2020 Prof. Grace Hale Featured in UVA's Faculty Spotlight October 2, 2020 Prof. Jennifer Sessions Interviewed for "The World" October 1, 2020 Prof. Christian McMillen Publishes Article with História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro September 16, 2020 History News Wrap-Up September 2, 2020 Prof Neeti Nair Publishes Op-Ed with The Indian Express August 20, 2020 New Method for Declaring History Major and Minor August 11, 2020 Prof Chad Diehl Publishes Article with TIME August 9, 2020 NY Times Reviews Prof. Hale's New Book August 5, 2020 History News Wrap-Up, 8/5/2020 July 15, 2020 History News Wrap-Up 7/15/2020 July 1, 2020 History News Wrap-Up June 17, 2020 Jotwell Publishes Review of Prof. Sarah Milov's Book June 17, 2020 Prof. Philip Zelikow Publishes Article with Foreign Affairs June 10, 2020 Prof. John Mason Publishes Essay with National Geographic June 9, 2020 Prof. Kevin Gaines for UVA Today Q&A June 3, 2020 Prof. Erik Linstrum Receives Berlin Prize June 3, 2020 Prof. Grace Hale Publishes Article with Washington Post May 26, 2020 History Grad Student Alexi Garrett Receives Graduate Teaching Award May 19, 2020 May 2020 Graduate Ceremony Video May 16, 2020 2020 Virtual Graduation Video May 15, 2020 History Department To Hold Virtual Graduation Ceremony May 6, 2020 Prof. Andrew Kahrl Publishes Op-ed with the Columbus Dispatch May 6, 2020 Prof. Christian McMillan Publishes Article in Social History of Medicine May 6, 2020 Prof. Jim Loeffler Elected Permanent Fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research April 21, 2020 UVA History MA 4+1 Program Applications April 20, 2020 Prof. McMillen Publishes Column for The Indian Express April 20, 2020 Prof. Milov Awarded 2020 PROSE Award April 20, 2020 Prof. Edelson and Prof. Alff Awarded NEH Grants April 13, 2020 Los Angeles Review of Books Publishes Review of Prof. Hale's "Cool Town" April 13, 2020 Read an Excerpt from Prof. Braun's Coronavirus Journal April 9, 2020 Prof. Kahrl Publishes Op-Ed with City Lab February 13, 2020 Prof. Varon Wins Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize January 22, 2020 Prof. Jim Loeffler Publishes Op-Ed with Forward January 22, 2020 Prof. Neeti Nair Awarded Harry Frank Guggenheim Fellowship January 15, 2020 Is War Coming? Teach-in on U.S.-Iran Crisis January 14, 2020 Prof. Neeti Nair's Op-Ed in The Print and Ananda Bazar Patrika December 19, 2019 Fall 2019 Department Wrap-Up December 19, 2019 Prof. Neeti Nair Interviewed by Telegraph India on Citizenship Amendment Act and Protests in India November 20, 2019 Prof. John Mason Featured in UVA Faculty Spotlight Video November 13, 2019 Prof. Neeti Nair Interviewed by Telegraph India on Indian Supreme Court's Ayodhya Verdict October 28, 2019 Professor James Loeffler Wins The Dorothy Rosenberg Prize in the History of the Jewish Diaspora October 5, 2019 Black Bus Stop to Show at New York Film Festival and London Film Festival September 27, 2019 History News Wrap-Up 9/27/19 August 19, 2019 Prof. Grace Hale Interviewed for Woodstock 50th Anniversary Story April 5, 2019 Prof. Elizabeth Varon Publishes New Book on Civil War December 10, 2018 History Wrap-Up 12/10/18 November 27, 2018 History Wrap-Up 11/27/18 October 31, 2018 PhD Graduate Tom Butcher Publishes Article in Washington Post October 22, 2018 Historian Kevin Gaines is UVA's First Julian Bond Professor October 22, 2018 Spring 2019 Course Descriptions October 22, 2018 Philip Zelikow named Advisory Board member for Sine Institute of Policy and Politics at American University October 13, 2018 Prof. Hitchcock Publishes Article with The Washington Post September 14, 2018 This Week in History (9/14/18 edition) August 3, 2018 Opening for Digital Humanities Graduate Research Assistant April 25, 2018 Halsted Wins Henkel Stiftung Scholarship April 23, 2018 Blair, Neumann, Saha, and McBrien Named 2018 Jefferson Fellows April 23, 2018 Goluboff and Miller Elected to AAAS April 16, 2018 Cohen & Thompson Win Mellon / ALCS Fellowships April 16, 2018 L. Kent Merritt Wins Distinguished Service Award April 16, 2018 Balogh Discusses History of Privacy on Here and Now April 9, 2018 Swati Chawla Wins Graduate Teaching Award April 9, 2018 Justin McBrien Wins Finger Graduate Teaching Fellowship April 9, 2018 Tom Klubock Wins Guggenheim March 29, 2018 Balogh Discuss Sports Underdogs on Here and Now March 23, 2018 2018 Phi Beta Inductees Named March 19, 2018 Chris Whitehead Named Fellow in Praxis Program March 19, 2018 Balogh Discusses Tillerson Firing on Here and Now March 19, 2018 Bishara Interviewed on H-Law Podcast March 15, 2018 Chawla Publishes Chapter in Edited Volume March 15, 2018 Evans & McCormick in the Washington Post March 12, 2018 Edelson's Book Named Finalist for George Washington Prize March 12, 2018 Prof. McMillan to become Dean McMillan March 5, 2018 Chang Wins Dissertation Fellowship from IHGC February 28, 2018 Hitchcock Writes WaPo Article on Ike and Billy Graham February 22, 2018 Swati Chawla Helps Train New RAs February 19, 2018 History Grad Students Win VFH Public Fellowships February 19, 2018 Hitchcock, Balogh, and Others on the Most Important Presidential Speeches February 15, 2018 Brian Balogh Talks to Here & Now about the History of Politics and the Olympics February 12, 2018 Swati Chawla Wins IHS Fellowship February 1, 2018 Europe Now: Campus Spotlight on UVa February 1, 2018 Brian Balogh Talks to Here & Now about the History of the State of the Union January 31, 2018 Karen Parshall Receives 2018 AMS Whiteman Prize January 8, 2018 Balogh Talks to Here & Now About Partisanship in the US December 29, 2017 Lee Accepted to 2018 Asia-Pacific Nuclear History Institute December 22, 2017 Balogh Speaks to Here&Now about Words and American Politics December 11, 2017 Fredrickson Wins Dissertation Award December 11, 2017 Balogh Speaks with Here&Now On Apologies in American History December 4, 2017 DMP Bernstein Writes on HUD for Washington Post December 4, 2017 Undergraduates Tackle Public History November 20, 2017 Erlandson Writes on Red Tape and Deregulation for WaPo November 13, 2017 Balogh Interviewed on Off-Year Elections for Here&Now November 13, 2017 Hampel Dedicates Book to Prof. Michael Holt November 2, 2017 Alumnus Frank Cirillo Writes for WaPo October 18, 2017 Balogh on Health in the Washington Post October 18, 2017 Video of Oct 11th "A Recent History of the Alt-Right" Talk October 14, 2017 Balogh Featured on NPR's Here & Now October 14, 2017 Balogh on Sports, Politics, and Race October 11, 2017 Linstrum Wins 2017 George Louis Beer Prize October 11, 2017 Careers Beyond the Tenure Track October 10, 2017 Leffler Writes for USA Today and Foreign Policy October 10, 2017 Nair Writes on Gandhi for the Huffington Post India October 9, 2017 BackStory and the UVa Bicentennial October 4, 2017 Brian Balogh on Here&Now October 4, 2017 "Inside A&S" Writes about Rosenwald, Milov, Davision, and Others September 21, 2017 John Mason Speaks on the Charlottesville Rally and Events of August 11-12 September 15, 2017 Video of "Civil War Memory: Charlottesville and Beyond" Conversation September 14, 2017 Brian Balogh Speaks to Here & Now September 13, 2017 Andrew Kahrl Writes for the Washington Post September 13, 2017 Graduate Students Write on Charlottesville for The Slate September 13, 2017 Undergrad DMP Gobar Writes for the Washington Post September 11, 2017 Balogh Interviews Karl Rove September 7, 2017 Claudrena Harold film screening at MIT List Visual Arts Center September 4, 2017 Prof. Hill Interviewed for NPR's "Truth, Politics, and Power" Podcast August 28, 2017 McBrien Writes on Farmers and Climate Change for Washington Post August 23, 2017 Brian Balogh on CNN.com August 21, 2017 Brian Balogh Talks to WBUR Boston About Charlottesville White Nationalist Rally August 21, 2017 Philip Zelikow Writes for The LawFare Blog August 21, 2017 Elizabeth Varon Writes on the Civil War and Charlottesville Events for the Washington Post August 21, 2017 Waitman Beorn Speaks to Forbes about the Imagery of Torches in Nazi Germany August 21, 2017 Grace Hale On "It's Been a Minute with Sam Sanders" Podcast May 15, 2017 Almog and Chawla Receive Humane Studies Fellowship May 8, 2017 Chawla, Givens-Johnson, and Saha Receive CGII Awards May 8, 2017 History Graduate Students Receive Mercatus Center Fellowships April 5, 2017 Maternowski Wins Class of 1985 Teaching Fellowship March 29, 2017 Erik Linstrum Featured on With Good Reason March 15, 2017 C-SPAN 3 Airs Explorations in Black Leadership Interviews March 2, 2017 Lawton Receives Fred W. Smith National Library Fellowship February 27, 2017 Cirillo Receives New York Historical Society Postdoctoral Fellowship January 25, 2017 Prof. Sarah Milov Featured on "With Good Reason" October 12, 2016 UVa History Majors Intern with the Institute of Public History September 5, 2016 Ambuske Begins Horatio and Florence Farmer Postdoctoral Fellowship at Law Library May 19, 2016 Almog and Garmon awarded Humane Studies Fellowships May 10, 2016 Garmon and Chawla awarded Adam Smith Fellowships May 5, 2016 Evans and Lindberg receive Graduate Teaching Awards May 5, 2016 Chawla on Decolonisation April 28, 2016 Garrett receives CNA-EULAC Fellowship April 26, 2016 Graduate Prefessionalization Seminar April 25, 2016 Lambert awarded Cory Teaching Award April 25, 2016 Taylor '14 published in Canadian Encyc. April 25, 2016 Taylor Elected to American Academy April 24, 2016 Chawla and UVa Team Receive USAID Grant April 21, 2016 Nichols, PhD '08, named Carnegie Fellow April 14, 2016 Grinspan on Voting in NYT April 13, 2016 Cross Lecture - Gary Gallagher - "All About Us: Projection, Wishful Thinking, and Anachronism in Recent Civil War Scholarship" April 11, 2016 NYTimes covers Onuf book April 11, 2016 Butcher awarded Seven Society Fellowship March 31, 2016 Freeman awarded ACLS/Mellon Fellowship March 31, 2016 New Phi Beta Kappa Members March 31, 2016 Fredrickson awarded Miller Center Fellowship March 31, 2016 Fredrickson on Lead Poisoning March 31, 2016 Four IHGC Clay Fellowships awarded March 28, 2016 Chawla wins Huskey Prize March 22, 2016 McBrien - Resident Scholar at Oregon State March 22, 2016 Milov on VA smoking bill March 17, 2016 Reed receives Teaching Award March 15, 2016 Stolz on Fukushima March 14, 2016 Balogh on Trump - BBC March 14, 2016 Lantz awarded Smith ICJS Fellowship March 14, 2016 Barton appointed Dartmouth Fellow March 14, 2016 Chapin book awarded Gomory Prize March 14, 2016 Hatter book awarded Cowan Prize March 7, 2016 BackStory covered by Perspectives on History March 3, 2016 History DMP info session 3/17/16 March 3, 2016 NYMag covers Linstrum's Book February 29, 2016 BackStory on #OscarsSoWhite February 18, 2016 Undergraduate Harrison Fellows February 8, 2016 Nair awarded Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship February 3, 2016 AHA covers NHC briefing February 3, 2016 Rosenwald on Conservative Media January 29, 2016 Balogh on CSPAN January 26, 2016 Mason and Gordon Parks January 19, 2016 Recent PhD defenses January 13, 2016 Cohen on Lotteries January 11, 2016 Klubock receives Bolton-Johnson Prize January 4, 2016 Levy on Denazification December 17, 2015 Hale wins NEH Digital Humanities Grant December 17, 2015 Balogh featured in a Chronicle article December 17, 2015 Bond Memorial Resolution December 10, 2015 Balogh and Onuf on Wilson December 7, 2015 NEH Tocqueville Summer Seminar December 7, 2015 Zunz at the Smithsonian December 3, 2015 Milov on Global Warming December 3, 2015 Klubock receives Weyerhaeuser Award December 3, 2015 BackStory on "Birth of a Nation" December 3, 2015 Klubock receives Weyerhaeuser Award November 11, 2015 BackStory at History Film Forum November 11, 2015 Carslon awarded Sally Hacker, Middleton Prizes November 4, 2015 Balogh on Trump November 1, 2015 Confino interviewed on Here and Now October 22, 2015 Hartford Courant op-ed utilizing Kahrl's research October 22, 2015 Nau Center for Civil War History Opens September 21, 2015 Further remembrances of Julian Bond September 21, 2015 Gulfside Assembly, Kahrl August 25, 2015 Barton, PhD Candidate, on Anarchism in Diplomatic History August 25, 2015 Elias Interviewed for CNN Documentary August 25, 2015 Leffler's Tribute to Julian Bond May 12, 2015 Marquez awarded ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship April 27, 2015 Thompson named fellow of the Carnegie Corporation of New York April 1, 2015 Ambuske awarded King George III Fellowship
June 27, 2024 Professor Joseph Seeley discusses the Korean War on its 75th Anniversary for UVA Lifetime Learning
June 1, 2024 Professor S. Deborah Kang discuss the Border Patrol involvement in asylum processing in Public Books
April 11, 2024 Professor Andrew Kahrl discusses how local tax systems fuel inequality in New York Times
February 20, 2024 Professor Grace Hale reviews Dawoud Bey: Elegy in her Southern Cultures' series, Shutter
February 19, 2024 Professor Neeti Nair discusses latest book in conversation with the Socio-Legal Review
February 17, 2024 Professor Justene Hill Edwards discusses Freedman's Bank and forthcoming book on NPR'S Marketplace
February 16, 2024 Professor Kristina Richardson selected as 2024-2025 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar
February 8, 2024 Professor Emeritus Brian Balogh discusses the history of NIMBYism in new articles in TIME and the Atlantic
February 2, 2024 Professor Neeti Nair's new opinion piece for Newslaundry remembers Gandhi on the anniversary of his assassination
January 10, 2024 Professor Kyrill Kunakhovich's Communism’s Public Sphere shortlisted for the Waterloo Center for German Studies Book Prize
December 13, 2023 Professor Elizabeth Varon discusses new book on Key Battles of American History podcast
November 28, 2023 History Department Selects Finger Family Undergraduate Research Awardee and Research Assistantships
November 17, 2023 Professor Grace Elizabeth Hale's new book, In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning!
October 23, 2023 Professor Brian P. Owensby wins AHA's Friedrich Katz Prize in Latin American and Caribbean history
October 20, 2023 Professor Olivier Zunz awarded the Prix littéraire de biographie historique Brantôme
October 20, 2023 Professor Erik Linstrum's Age of Emergency selected as editor's choice for September 2023 in the EuropeNow Journal
October 19, 2023 Professor S. Deborah Kang newly published article “Sovereign Mercy: The Legalization of the White Russian Refugees and the Politics of Immigration Relief” in the Journal of American Ethnic History
October 19, 2023 Professor Christian McMillen's research on Colorado River and tribal water rights featured in ProPublica and High County News joint article
April 29, 2023 Professor Justene Hill Edwards discusses the history of slavery at UVA on Legal Knowledge podcast
April 6, 2023 Professor Thomas Klubock wins the Whitaker Book Prize from the Mid-Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies
March 23, 2023 Professor Philip D. Zelikow discusses reasons for sending Russia's frozen $300 billion to Ukraine in co-authored Washington Post piece
March 14, 2023 UVAToday highlights remarkable History graduate students' work through partnership between the GAGE Initiative and Washington Post
March 13, 2023 Professor Neeti Nair discusses the state of democracy in India on TVO Today's current affairs program, "The Agenda"
March 10, 2023 Professor Neeti Nair's new book, Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia
February 10, 2023 Professor Kristina Richardson awarded 2023 Monica H. Green Prize for Distinguished Medieval Research
February 3, 2023 Professor Melvyn P. Leffler new book, Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq
February 3, 2023 Brianna Frakes explains how resistance to the Emancipation Proclamation is important to understanding the contemporary moment
January 26, 2023 Professor Cong Ellen Zhang co-edited and co-translated, Chinese Autobiography Writing: An Anthology of Personal Accounts
January 26, 2023 Bethany Bell discusses the UCD's legacy of shaping school curriculum amidst FL Governor's rejection of AP AfAm studies course
January 26, 2023 Marc J. Selverstone new book, The Kennedy Withdrawal: Camelot and the American Commitment to Vietnam
December 1, 2022 Professor J.E. Lendon's book chosen as a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year.
November 10, 2022 Alumna Lauren Haumesser's new book, The Democratic Collapse: How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation 1856-1861
September 29, 2022 Professor Neeti Nair guest edited a special issue of Asian Affairs on “Citizenship, Belonging, and the Partition of India.”
September 26, 2022 Professor John Edwin Mason's curated exhibition, "Visions of Progress: Portraits of Dignity, Style, and Racial Uplift" featured in UVAToday
September 8, 2022 Doctoral Candidates Justin Winokur and Matt Frakes named 2022-2023 National Security Policy Center Fellows
August 29, 2022 Professor Corinne T. Field new co-edited volume, The Global History of Black Girlhood
July 25, 2022 Stefan Lund (UVA PhD 2022) discusses the history of mob violence in the United States in new "Made By History" article.
July 19, 2022 Professor Cynthia Nicoletti wins The Journal of the Civil War Era's George and Ann Richards Prize
July 8, 2022 Professor Sarah Milov's recent New York Times opinion piece, "The End of the Illusion That Smoking is a Choice"
July 7, 2022 Professor Alan Taylor presents as Keynote speakers at Bavarian American Academy Conference
June 15, 2022 Professor Elizabeth R. Varon provides historical context to the January 6th insurrection
June 9, 2022 Jeremy Nelson examines ways Civil War Americans used animal references in Nau Civil War Center Blog Post
June 1, 2022 Call for papers: 2022 Legacies of Slavery Landscapes of Segregation, Universities Studying Slavery Conference
May 27, 2022 Professor Laurent Dubois discusses the long-term implications of the U.S. occupation of Haiti in the 20th century on Clauses and Controversies Podcast
May 23, 2022 UvaToday profiled retiring professors Brian Balogh, Herbert “Tico” Braun, George Gilliam, and Olivier Zunz
May 23, 2022 Nicholas Scott discusses how Chile’s constitutional convention is incorporating a series of social rights reforms into its proposed constitution
May 23, 2022 Professor Philip Zelikow published a commentary in Lawfare entitled, "A Legal Approach to the Transfer of Russian Assets to Rebuild Ukraine"
May 13, 2022 Professor S. Deborah Kang on the racist origins of fed. immigration law on Democracy in Danger podcast
May 9, 2022 Thomas Storrs writes on redlining and federal housing programs cited in White House's "Economic Report of the President."
May 6, 2022 Clayton Butler (UVA PhD 2020) accepts position as Marketing and Sales Associate at UVA Press
May 3, 2022 Ian Iverson accepts job as Editorial Specialist for the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition
April 27, 2022 Nicholas Scott discusses how Chile's current constitutional convention has resumed the unfinished business of the Chilean Revolution
April 26, 2022 Professor Claudrena Harold selected keynote speaker for the May 21st graduation ceremony for the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences!
April 25, 2022 Professor Olivier Zunz's new book, he Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville
April 20, 2022 Professor Philip Zelikow co-authored essay, "How Ukraine Can Build Back Better" in Foreign Affairs Magazine
April 8, 2022 Professor Sarah Milov among Princeton's University Center for Human Values 2022-2023 Visiting Faculty Fellows
April 8, 2022 Professor Kyrill Kunakhovich provides historical context to the war in Ukraine on UVA Speaks podcast
April 8, 2022 Professor Justene Hill Edwards participated in a conversation about Slavery, Capitalism, and Empire as a part of the Schomburg Center's Conversations in Black Freedom Series
April 6, 2022 Brian Neumann's new book, Bloody Flag of Anarchy: Unionism in South Carolina during the Nullification Crisis
April 6, 2022 Clayton Butler's new book, True Blue: White Unionists in the Deep South during the Civil War and Reconstruction
April 6, 2022 Professor Claudrena Harold discusses her book, When Sunday Comes, at the annual series “Encounters:” Conversations on Racism, Antisemitism, and Islamophobia.
March 28, 2022 Professor James Loeffler recently published three articles discussing the history and memory of the concept of genocide
March 23, 2022 Professor Alan Taylor appeared on The Washington Times' "History As It Happens" podcast to discuss the role of this country's founding generation
March 17, 2022 Professor John Edwin Mason discusses Holsinger Portrait Project's pop-up exhibit in UVA Today article.
March 17, 2022 Crystal Luo tells the history behind one of the loudest pro-police voices in the convo on anti-Asian violence, Carl Chan and the Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce
March 15, 2022 Audrius Rickus has some valuable insight into President Vladimir Putin’s “de-nazification” claims
March 15, 2022 Professor Chris Gratien's new book, The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier
March 15, 2022 Professor James Loeffler new article, "The First Genocide: Antisemitism and Universalism in Raphael Lemkin’s Thought"
March 7, 2022 The New Negro in Charlottesville and Albemarle: Portraits from a Century Ago Pop-Up exhibit
March 7, 2022 Professor J. E. Lendon's New Book, That Tyrant, Persuasion: How Rhetoric Shaped the Roman World
February 28, 2022 Professor Kyrill Kunakhovich shares insight about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with UVA Today
February 24, 2022 Professor Emeritus Michael Holt Discusses President Franklin Pierce in CBS Sunday Morning Segment
February 24, 2022 Olivia Paschal discusses the Black Press as a model for how mainstream news can better cover racism
February 22, 2022 Professor Karen Parshall's new book, The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920–1950, published by Princeton University Press
February 21, 2022 Professor Karen Parshall featured in newest issue of Notices of the American Mathematical Society (AMS)
February 14, 2022 Professor Justene Hill Edwards discussing her book on UVA's Lifetime Learning Program podcast
February 9, 2022 Professor and Co-Director of the Holsinger Portrait Project, John Mason, awarded grant from the Jefferson Trust
February 7, 2022 Allison Mitchell discusses the civil rights movement and how economic demands of Black people were resurrected.
February 4, 2022 Meghan Herwig considers whether a diplomatic boycott of the Olympics will change human rights in China.
February 1, 2022 Professor Sarah Milov was interviewed by The Long View, and spoke about tobacco and social media whistleblowing
January 28, 2022 Professor Thomas Klubock Publishes New Book, Ránquil: Rural Rebellion, Political Violence, and Historical Memory in Chile
January 27, 2022 History Post-doc Justin McBrien explains why disaster films won't spur climate change action in his Op Ed in The Washington Post.
January 26, 2022 The history of slavery at UVA exhibit, written and researched by Ian Iverson and Joshua Morrison, on display in Pavilion X.
December 23, 2021 Professor Brian Owensby Publishes New Book, New World of Gain: Europeans, Guaraní, and the Global Origins of Modern Economy
December 15, 2021 Professor Fahad Bishara Featured in Special Issue of The Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (JESHO)
December 15, 2021 Professors Xiaoyuan Liu and Joseph Seeley on the legacies of the Pearl Harbor attack for US involvement in East Asia
December 15, 2021 New Chinese Translation of Professor Brad Reed’s book, Talons and Teeth: County Clerks and Runners in the Qing Dynasty
December 3, 2021 Professor Grace Hale's new book named top book of the year on Georgia history by the Georgia Historical Society
November 23, 2021 Professor Caroline Janney discusses her new book and receives praise in Wall Street Journal Review
November 17, 2021 Professor Neeti Nair appointed to John W. Kluge Center's inaugural alumni advisory board.
September 4, 2021 Professor Claudrena Harold discusses the impact of working people this labor day, with NPR.
July 3, 2021 New Books by Professors Justene Hill Edwards, Alan Taylor, and Philip Zelikow on UVA Today’s Recommended Summer Reading List
June 23, 2021 Professor Max Edelson discusses his book, New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America before Independence.
June 17, 2021 Professor Neeti Nair’s Indian Express Op-Ed Discusses the Demolition of the National Archives
April 4, 2021 Richard Barnett's North India Between Empires: Awadh, the Mughals, and the British 1729-1801 a “Manohar Classic.”
March 30, 2021 Professor James Loeffler Reviews Eric D. Weitz’s A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States
March 30, 2021 Congratulations to Professor Caroline Janney on the publication of the edited collection, Buying and Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America.
February 5, 2021 Mel Leffler on the Significant Threats that Climate Change and Pandemics Pose to National Security
January 29, 2021 Neeti Nair Discusses “Hurt Sentiments” and Forbidden Speech in India on the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy’s Podcast
January 22, 2021 Liz Varon's Washington Post Op-Ed on the parallels between Presidents Andrew Johnson and Donald Trump
January 22, 2021 Will Hitchcock's and Siva Vaidhyanathan's Democracy in Danger Podcast Reflects on the Capitol Hill Riot of January 6th
October 1, 2020 Prof. Christian McMillen Publishes Article with História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro
December 19, 2019 Prof. Neeti Nair Interviewed by Telegraph India on Citizenship Amendment Act and Protests in India
November 13, 2019 Prof. Neeti Nair Interviewed by Telegraph India on Indian Supreme Court's Ayodhya Verdict
October 28, 2019 Professor James Loeffler Wins The Dorothy Rosenberg Prize in the History of the Jewish Diaspora
October 22, 2018 Philip Zelikow named Advisory Board member for Sine Institute of Policy and Politics at American University
August 21, 2017 Elizabeth Varon Writes on the Civil War and Charlottesville Events for the Washington Post
April 13, 2016 Cross Lecture - Gary Gallagher - "All About Us: Projection, Wishful Thinking, and Anachronism in Recent Civil War Scholarship"
