University of Maryland History Department

September 8th in Baltimore. Details and tickets available at https://profsandpints.ticketleap.com/hancock/

Opinion: The classicist Eric Adler on what the new study of the humanities gets wrong. https://chroni.cl/3WTfTvP

Inside the Nooks of ‘The Bookshop’ In New Book, Alum Traces the Long Story of Bookstores

Advice | The ROI of a History Degree How to direct history students toward fulfilling nonacademic careers, and make the case for the value of the field.

Tom Zeller is featured on New Books Network talking about his recent book Consuming Landscapes.

Thomas Zeller, "Consuming Landscapes: What We See When We Drive and Why It Matters" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022) - New Books Network Support H-Net | Buy Books Here | Help Support the NBN and NBN en Español on Patreon | Visit New Books Network en Español!

School House Rock - The Declaration of Independence

UMD History alum Christina Morina has won the 2024 German Non-Fiction Prize for her 2023 book A Thousand New Beginnings an analysis of German ideas about democracy since the 1980s.

Current Year Drawing on personal testimonies, Christina Morina analyses citizens’ ideas of democracy in East and West Germany since the 1980s. Identifying differences and mutual references in their understanding of the state and politics, she reveals both the limits of West German liberalisation and the wide r...

Swinging London: Exploring the 1960s Cultural Revolution The Beatles, Fashion, and More! Join Dr. Julie Taddeo, Research Professor of History at University of Maryland for: Swinging London: Exploring the 1960s Cultural Revolution The Beatles, Fashion, and More!What To Expect• A prese...

https://www.jeopardy.com/jbuzz/streaker-updates/isaac-hirsch-five-game-jeopardy-champion

Isaac Hirsch is a Five-Game Jeopardy! Champion | J!Buzz | Jeopardy.com To view videos on this site, you need to enable certain cookies.Privacy Settings , Isaac Hirsch is officially a five-game Jeopardy! champion with a total of $120,187 in winnings. Isaac, a customer support team manager from Burbank, California, notched his fifth victory on Tuesday after going head-to...

UMD History alum on Jeopardy!

Best of luck to Isaac Hirsch '14 as he pursues his fourth consecutive win tonight on Jeopardy!

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History Hack: Bridgerton season 3 | History Hack Listen to History Hack: Bridgerton season 3 from History Hack. Beth is joined by Julie Tadeo and Katherine Byrne to talk about the 3rd season of Bridgerton. They discuss what is historically possible and what is pure fiction, what characters are believable and even about that carriage scene that eve...

6th July 1483 – Richard III is crowned King of England.

Read UMD Historian Holly Brewer's op-ed in the New Republic on the Supreme Court ruling regarding presidential immunity.

The Supreme Court Turns the President Into a King The conservative justices have ignored history altogether and created a shocking new precedent: The president is above the law.

https://history.umd.edu/news/history-phd-alum-appointed-new-editorial-position

History PhD Alum Appointed to New Editorial Position Department of History alum Robert Bland (PhD 2017 Advisor Leslie Rowland) is the new Digital Media Editor for The Journal of the Civil War Era. Rob is an assistant professor of History and Africana Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Photo courtesy of University of Tennessee, Knoxvill...

The work of Department of History HiLS student Emily Irvine features in this news story that recently ran on Kazakhstani TV: https://qazaqstan.tv/news/195244/ In a course supervised by Sarah Cameron, Emily investigated the history of the Nevada-Semipalatinsk movement in Kazakhstan, the largest grassroots anti-nuclear movement in the Soviet Union. As part of her research, Emily interviewed some of the American participants in this movement. One of them had a large photo collection documenting his participation in the movement and travels to Kazakhstan in the late Soviet era. He wished to donate it, and Emily and Sarah found a home for it at the Kazakh State Archives in Almaty. Sarah was able to hand it to them in person earlier this month and the archivists were thrilled to have this crucial record of their country's history.

Emily's advisor is Tom Zeller.

«Невада-Семей» қозғалысының жаңа фотолары табылды Биыл «Невада-Семей» қозғалысына 35 жыл. Еліміздің ядролық қарусыздану ісіндегі нақты қадамы жаһанға үлгі. Сол антиядролық қозғалыс кезінде түсірілген тың суреттер...

The National Historical Publications and Records Commission has awarded a new $125,000 grant to the Freedmen and Southern Society Project to continue its work on the multi-volume Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867. The grant, which is for one year beginning August 1, 2024, will support the indexing of Law and Justice, late-stage editorial work on Family and Kinship, and preliminary document selection for Church, School, and Community.

For a full list of the newly announced NHPRC awards, go to

NHPRC Awards May 2024 Archival Projects University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL $110,798 to support a project to enhance finding aid description and digitize an anticipated total of 40,230 records referring to Alabama’s coal and iron labor history, including the Brierfield Iron Works, Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rai...

Marjorie Justine Antonio, MA student in the History and Library and Information Science (HiLS) program, has been named a fellow who will receive funding from Arts for All through its inaugural Faculty and Graduate Student Fellowship. Ten faculty members and five graduate students received a total of $112,500 in awards for 2024–25. Marjorie will investigate transnational Filipino arts activism in the DC-Maryland-Virginia area through the lenses of historical inquiry, community archiving and open-source intelligence. A formal academic paper will build up to a Master’s thesis, arts programming such as community archiving workshops, and community discussion and teach-ins about activist security.

Inaugural Arts for All Fellows To Work Across Art, Tech, Science and Social Justice By Jessica Weiss ’05 Research into making natural color textile dyes more sustainable. A musical performance, workshop and recording project in collaboration with incarcerated youth. An interactive game that allows players to journey through Afrofuturist worlds.

Julie Greene was recently named Alumna of the Year at her high school in Nebraska. Even then Julie was active in pursuing political and social justice. Congratulations Julie!

Julie Taddeo's co-edited collection with Jo Parnell, Writing Australian History On-Screen: Television and Film Period Dramas “Down Under” was recently reviewed in Australian Historical Studies 55.2 (2024):411-412.

Writing Australian History On-screen: Television and Film Period Dramas “Down Under” Writing Australian History On-screen reveals the depths in Australian history from convict times to the present day. The essays convey perspectives of Australian history on screen taken from an Au...

Stefano Villani was a keynote speaker at a conference on "John and/or Giovanni FLORIO: Tradition and Innovation in Florian Studies." The conference was held June 13-14, 2024 at Sapienza Università di Roma, Departimento di Studi Europei Americani e Interculturali. Stefano's talk was titled "Imagined Identities: Children of Italian Exiles in Seventeenth Century England."

Sarah Cameron was the keynote speaker for the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) conference in Almaty, Kazakhstan. She spoke on June 7, 2024, in a talk entitled “Studying Central Asia in the Age of Climate Change.”

The Department of History is delighted to share that PhD Candidate Sophie Hess (Advisor Rick Bell) has been awarded the Walter Rundell, Jr. Memorial Award recognizing an outstanding graduate student in American History. Sophie is recognized for her excellent academic record, professional integrity, demonstrated ability, and scholarly dedication. This recognition is largely based on a chapter from her dissertation, "Hollow Ground: Industry, Extraction, and Ecology in the Floodplains of Early Maryland." The award comes with a $1,000 stipend. Sophie has also made impressive contributions to the Department of History by serving in the History Graduate Student Association and as a member of a Department search committee for a position in American History.