"Bearing Witness, Challenging Myth: Imperial Pasts and Fascist Presents".The Forty-Eighth Annual Susman Conference, March 27, 2026, Rutgers University – New Brunswick Submission Deadline: January 15, 2026. Please contact [email protected] with any questions.

Enjoy Sydney Smith's newest History blog post on Kelly Carter Jackson's visit to Rutgers in October 2025. Sydney is a doctoral candidate in History and the History Department's Public Outreach GA. #Rutgers history.rutgers.edu/.../news/new...

The next lecture in the Interpreting American History Lecture Series... This signature lecture series in the Rutgers History Department was founded by our graduate students. #Rutgers

Enjoy this New Books Network podcast interview with Darcie Fontaine (Rutgers History Ph.D.) on her newest book, Modern France and the World (Routledge 2023). #Rutgers newbooksnetwork.com/modern-franc...

Congratulations to Rutgers History Professor Camilla Townsend's translation of an Aztec work on the value of giving thanks. #Rutgers press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

The 2025 Fall Chambers Oral History Fellowship Lecture, featuring Dr. Kiamsha Bynes (PhD’25, History) and Cherene Aniyan (History) takes place on Nov 20, 2025.! Please join us from noon to 2 PM at the Academic Building, Room 6051.

Enjoy this thoughtful opinion essay by Rutgers History professor Jochen Hellbeck in today's New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...

Happening today, Nov 17 at 5:30 pm. #Rutgers

Dr. Melissa Reynolds (Rutgers History Ph.D.) has won the Jon Ben Snow Prize from the North American Conference on British Studies for her book, Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print! #rutgersuniversity To learn more: lnkd.in/e9ZrvnQF

Dr. Fidel Tavárez (City University of New York) will be presenting his work on 18th-century Caribbean sugar plantations, titled "Santo Domingo's Unrealized Plantation Complex: A Prelude to Cuba's Sugar Revolution, 1760-1795."

Posting on behalf of our colleagues in the Rutgers Art History Department and the program in European Studies. #Rutgers

Posting for our friends and colleagues in the Center for Latin American Studies. #Rutgers

Join us for a talk on "Socialist Scandals. Corruption, Revolution and the Quest for Justice in Poland and East Germany." Sponsored by the Center for European Studies and the History department. #Rutgers

Posting for our colleagues in the Center for Latin American Studies. #rutgers

Posting for our friends and colleagues in the Department of Jewish Studies and the Rutgers Book Initiative. #Rutgers

Join us on Thursday as part of the Undisciplined Speaker Series led by Dr. Kaysha Corinealdi.

Camila Townsend, Distinguished Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers, has been elected to the British Academy, a rare honor for an American scholar and a first for Rutgers. Learn more: sas.rutgers.edu/about/news/f...

The Rutgers History Department's fall 2025 newsletter is now live. Read about the careers of some of the extraordinary graduates of our Ph.D. program, including Dr. Lynn Mahoney, president of San Francisco State University. Enjoy! Here is a direct link: indd.adobe.com/view/4887452...

Rutgers History Ph.D, Satya Shik Chakraborty returns to Rutgers to discuss her book on the gendered history of race and caste in British India. #Rutgers

Did you know that Rutgers offers a "Law & History" minor? Start your "Law & History" minor with any of the several dozen approved courses, including "Law and History: (506:216) offered in Spring 2026. #rutgersuniversity

Do you love studying history, but don't have the time in your schedule for a History major? The History minor may be just the thing for you. # Rutgers

Congratulations to Rutgers History professor Barbara Cooper. Her book, Countless Blessings: A History of Childbirth and Reproduction in the Sahel, has been translated into French. #Rutgers

David Greenberg, our colleague in the Rutgers History Department, has just won the Georgia Historical Society 2025 Malcolm Bell, Jr. and Muriel Barrow Bell Award for the best book on Georgia history published in 2024. #Rutgers

Congratulations to Laura Caroline De Moya-Guerra (Rutgers doctoral candidate in the History Department). #Rutgers

Posting for our friends and colleagues in Global Medieval Studies at Rutgers. Our first big Global Medieval Studies event of the semester is next Friday, Oct. 24th. D. Vance Smith will be presenting work from his just published book, Atlas's Bones: The African Foundations of Europe. #Rutgers

Amanda Eubanks Winkler, chair of Music at Mason Gross, invites the Rutgers community to a rare treat. Tiffany Stern and Bill Barclay will host an evening of discussion about popular music from the past and its life in the present. There will be live performances! #Rutgers

Congratulations to Alissa Klots (Rutgers History PhD) for winning the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History for her book Domestic Service in the Soviet Union: Women's Emancipation and the Gendered Hierarchy of Labor (Cambridge University Press, 2024). Bravo! #Rutgers #CambridgeUniversityPress

After two weeks of escalating threats and harassment and no statement forthcoming from the university decrying them, the department voted and approved the following statement. We were pleased and surprised to see President Tate’s article in NJ.com the next day. #Rutgers

Enjoy reading Rutgers History professor David Greenberg's stimulating review of Kenneth Vogel's new book, Devils' Advocates: the Hidden Story of Rudy Giuliani, Hunter Biden, and the Washington Insiders on the Payrolls of Corrupt Foreign Interests. #Rutgers www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/b...

This will be a powerful discussion. As always, Rutgers undergraduates are welcome to attend the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis (RCHA) discussions. Please note that this talk will take place at 3:00 pm on Tuesday, October 14. #Rutgers

At the conference "Teaching Early Modern Now" at Rutgers today (October 10, 2025), history professors Alastair Bellany, Jack Bouchard, Samantha Kelly, and Camilla Townsend shared how they teach early modern history in this historical moment. #rutgers

Celebrating Rutgers prof Jochen Hellbeck's newest book, A major new history that transforms our understanding of World War II—tracing the conflict and its most infamous crime, the Holocaust, to Germany’s implacable hostility toward Soviet Russia. #Rutgers www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/742338...

Congratulations to Dr. Kendra Boyd (Rutgers History PhD) on her most recent prize for her scholarship. #Rutgers

A chance to learn how Rutgers professors across the disciplines are teaching early modern history and culture. #Rutgers

Check out this Q&A with Rutgers History prof Jack Bouchard about his forthcoming book, “Terra Nova: Food, Water, and Work in an Early Atlantic World” (@yalepress, 2025) #Rutgers history.rutgers.edu/news-events/...

Congratulations to Suzanne Kaufmann (Rutgers History, Ph.D. 1996) on her new article in French Historical Studies: "Incident at Sousse: West African Soldiers, Legionnaires, and the Racial Politics of Colonial Policing in 1930s French Tunisia" read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

Congratulations to Lily Barker, second year Rutgers History major and artist at Douglass Residential College on her photobook, Douglass Ghosts. #Rutgers douglass.rutgers.edu/news/douglas...

Posting for our colleagues at the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice and the Center for Cultural Analysis. #Rutgers

Welcome to Efsun Cazu, one of our new Ph.D. students in the Rutgers History Department. #Rutgers

Welcome to Florencia Bertinotti, one of our new Ph.D. students in the Rutgers History Department. #rutgers

Meet Leah Long, one of our newest students in the Rutgers History Ph.D. program. #Rutgers

Let's welcome Andrew Mathis to the PhD program in History at Rutgers University. #rutgers

As always, the most fun to be had in Van Dyck Hall happens at the undergraduate History Club meetings on Monday night. All Rutgers students interested in history are welcome at the Monday evening club meetings. Sea Shanties on Monday, September 22, 2025. #rutgers

Enjoy meeting Koda Drake, one of our newest doctoral students in the Rutgers History Department. #Rutgers

Enjoy meeting Ben Jacob, one of the new cohort of doctoral students in the Rutgers History Department. #Rutgers

Welcome to Morgan Goode, one of our newest History Ph.D. students.#Rutgers