Please join us tomorrow for Dr. Bryna Cameron-Steinke's talk "'Like Bees to an Apiary': Vineyards, Orchards and Gardens in Early Medieval Brittany". You can find the abstract for this talk on our website: www.queensu.ca/history/news...

A reminder to please join us tomorrow evening for the 2025 John M. Sherwood Memorial Lecture in History of Science and Technology in Conference Room B of the Donald Gordon Conference Centre (421 Union Street)! The talk will begin at 5:30pm, with reception to follow!

Please join us next Thursday for the 2025 John M. Sherwood Memorial Lecture in History of Science and Technology in Conference Room B of the Donald Gordon Centre (421 Union Street). If you are interested in attending, please RSVP to [email protected]. We look forward to seeing you there!

The Departments of History and Classics at Queen’s University is seeking a postdoctoral fellow to start July 1, 2026. Applications are due on January 15, 2026 for the Marjorie McLean Oliver Post-Doctoral Fellowship. The full position description can be found here: www.queensu.ca/history/abou....

Please join us next Thursday, October 30th, for a talk presented jointly by the Department of History and the Department of Philosophy!

Please join us for the beginning of our 2025-2026 Seminar Series next Thursday, September 25th at 11:30am in Watson Hall, Room 517. Dr. Sebastián Gil-Riaño (University of Pennsylvania) will be presenting "Confronting Ethnocide and its International Revival after 1968".

The Screening Room will be showing Christian Petzold's 2018 film "Transit" on Sunday, September 21st. Following the film, Dr. Swen Steinberg will be leading a post-screening discussion. Tickets for the event are $10 and are available from www.screeningroomkingston.com/csok

Our final recording rewind for this summer is "The Planetary Turn in Human History: a Personal Journey," originally presented by Dr. Dipesh Chakrabarty on October 3, 2024 as part of the GHI 2024 Workshop! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uP7...

Today's recording rewind brings you "The State of Global History: A Critical Institutional Perspective," originally presented by Dr. Heidi Tworek on October 3, 2024 as part of the GHI 2024 Workshop. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y9u...

With open enrollment starting today, here are some of our courses that still have space available for the coming year! Please note that some 300- and 400-level courses might require Instructor or Department permission in order to enroll.

Get to know some of our courses for the coming school year! HIST 241 Issues in History Downtown Kingston: A Cultural History You can find more details about this course and many others on our website: www.queensu.ca/history/cour...

Get to know some of our courses for the coming school year! HIST 295 The Holocaust You can find more information about this course and many others on our website: www.queensu.ca/history/cour...

Today's recording rewind brings you "Rumors of Apocalypse: The Epidemics that Shaped (and Didn't Shape) British America, 1600-1776," originally presented by Dr. Jason Opal on September 28, 2023. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Oc8...

Get to know some of our courses for the coming school year! HIST 241 Issues in History Voices of a People: An Introduction to Jewish Music Though a History course, this course might also appeal to students of Music! You can find more information on our website: www.queensu.ca/history/cour...

Get to know some of our courses for the coming school year! HIST 294 The Arab-Israeli Conflict in Global Perspective You can find more details about this course and many others on our website: www.queensu.ca/history/cour...

Just a reminder that all applications for HIST 512 Internships are due tomorrow, August 13th. If you have any questions about the application process, you can check out our website for more information: www.queensu.ca/history/unde...

Today's recording rewind brings you "How Travel, Trade and Taste Made Beer a Global Commodity," originally presented by Dr. Jeffrey Pilcher on March 30, 2023. Enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6_y...

Our final featured HIST 512 Internship Opportunities for 2025-2026 are two opportunities to work with the Great Lakes Museum! You can find more details about these positions and how to apply on our website: www.queensu.ca/history/unde...

Get to know some of our courses for the coming school year! HIST 241 Issues in History Inquisition Across the Spanish Empire: Religious Law and Heresies You can find more details about this course and many others on our website: www.queensu.ca/history/cour...

Our next featured HIST 512 Internship Opportunity for 2025-2026 is an opportunity to work with @riseupfeminist.bsky.social ! You can find more details about this position and how to apply on our website: www.queensu.ca/history/unde...

Our next featured HIST 512 Internship Opportunity for 2025-2026 is an opportunity to work with @crkn-rcdr.bsky.social ! You can find more details and application instructions on our website: www.queensu.ca/history/unde...

Our next featured HIST 512 Internship Opportunities for 2025-2026 are a trio of positions with @museumofhealthcare.bsky.social ! You can find more details about these positions and how to apply on our website: www.queensu.ca/history/unde...

Get to know some of our courses for the coming school year! HIST 279 20th Century Canada You can find more details about this course and many others on our website: www.queensu.ca/history/cour...

Our next featured HIST 512 Internship Opportunity for 2025-2026 is a position with the Royal Military College of Canada Museum! You can find more details and application instructions on our website: www.queensu.ca/history/unde...

Get to know some of our courses for the coming school year! HIST 275 The African American Experience You can find more details about this course and many others on our website: www.queensu.ca/history/cour...

Our next featured HIST 512 Internship Opportunity for 2025-2026 is a position with the Murney Tower Museum! You can find more details about this position and how to apply on our website: www.queensu.ca/history/unde...

Get to know some of our courses for the coming school year! HIST 299 China Since 1800 You can find more details about this course and many others on our website: www.queensu.ca/history/cour...

Our next featured HIST 512 Internship Opportunity for 2025-2026 is a position with the Frontenac County Schools Museum! You can find more details and application instructions on our website: www.queensu.ca/history/unde...

Another of the HIST 512 Internship Opportunities for 2025-2026 is a position with Queen's Quarterly! You can find more details about how to apply to this internship or others on our website: www.queensu.ca/history/unde...

Get to know some of our courses for the coming school year! HIST 287 Early Modern England You can find more details about this course and many others on our website: www.queensu.ca/history/cour...

Another of the HIST 512 Internship Opportunities for 2025-2026 is a curatorial internship with @cityofkingston.bsky.social ! You can find more details about how to apply for this internship on our website: www.queensu.ca/history/unde...

Today's video from the vault is "Irish Lumpers: Appetite and Political Economy in Ireland Before the Famine," originally presented by Dr. Padraic Scanlan on November 3, 2022. Enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBdT...

Another of the HIST 512 Internship Opportunities for 2025-2026 is the opportunity for students to work with @cfrcradio.bsky.social! You can find more details and application instructions on our website: www.queensu.ca/history/unde...

Get to know some of our courses for the coming school year! HIST 246 The Soviet Experiment You can find more details about this course and many others on our website: www.queensu.ca/history/cour...

Today's recording rewind brings us "The Surge: Temporal Anarchy and the Pursuit of Dynamic History," originally presented by Dr. Ethan Kleinberg on March 14, 2024. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP8T...

One of the HIST 512 Internship Opportunities for 2025-2026 is a Heritage Programming internship with @cityofkingston.bsky.social ! You can find more details and application instructions on our website: www.queensu.ca/history/unde...

Get to know some of our courses for the coming school year! HIST 231 World War II You can find more details about this course and many others on our website: www.queensu.ca/history/cour...

As of Fall 2025, HIST 212 will be offered under a new course code - HIST 512! We will be posting more information about the coming school year's internship opportunities here over the next couple of weeks, but you can always find more information on our website: www.queensu.ca/history/unde...

Get to know some of our courses for the coming school year! HIST 253 History of Public Policy You can find more details about this course and many others on our website: www.queensu.ca/history/cour...

Today's video from the vaults is "Global History and Early Modern Capitalism: Sugar, Cotton and Industrialization," originally presented by Dr. Maxine Berg as part of the Global History Initiative workshop on October 3, 2024. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pixy...

Get to know some of our courses for the coming school year! HIST 252 Africa in the Modern World You can find more detailed information about this course and many others on our website: www.queensu.ca/history/cour...

Applications for HIST 502: Queen's Archival Internships are now open! Applications must be submitted to [email protected] no later than August 1st. Please visit our website for more details about what to include in your application! www.queensu.ca/history/unde...

Today's recording rewind brings you "Working Magic in Byzantium: Coping with Life at the Intersection of Medicine, Science, and Faith," originally presented by Dr. Richard Greenfield on November 30, 2023. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Whum...

Get to know some of our courses for the coming school year! HIST 251 Medieval England You can find more details about this course and many others on our website: www.queensu.ca/history/cour...

Get to know some of our courses for the coming school year! HIST 223 Poison and Prejudice: Toxins in Global History You can find more details about this course and many others on our website: www.queensu.ca/history/cour...

Today's recording rewind brings you "Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia," originally presented by Dr. Mitra Sharafi on February 27, 2025. www.youtube.com/watch?v=okkc...

Get to know some of our courses for the coming school year! HIST 220 Jews on Film You can find more details about this course and many others on our website: www.queensu.ca/history/cour...

Today's recording rewind brings you "State Security, Civil Liberty and the Origins of the Canadian Secret Police," originally presented by Dr. David. A. Wilson on March 9, 2023. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc-b...

Get to know some of our courses for the coming school year! HIST 219 Canada: The History of an Idea You can find more details about this course and many others on our website: www.queensu.ca/history/cour...

Get to know some of our courses for the coming school year! HIST 216 U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction You can find more details about this course and many others on our website! www.queensu.ca/history/cour...