Department of History

News

History Senior Alice McGuinness Wins Sachs Scholarship

The Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship is one of Princeton University’s highest awards. McGuinness plans to earn two master’s degrees while at Oxford, one in modern South Asian studies and one in forced migration and refugee studies.

"Seven Crashes" by Harold James Shortlisted for 2024 Lionel Gelber Prize

The prize recognizes the best non-fiction book on international affairs published in English.

"Middle Ages for Educators" Website Awarded Grant from the Medieval Academy of America

The grant from the Medieval Academy of America will fund a competition to foster the development of engaging web content and resources for the platform.

Faculty Author Q&A: Thomas Conlan on “Kings in All But Name”

Thomas Conlan speaks with the Department of East Asian Studies about his newest book, published January 2024 by Oxford University Press.

Creager Awarded NEH Grant

The grant will support the research and writing of a book, “Environment, Mutation, Cancer: A History of the Ames Test.”

Events

Committee for the Study of Books & Media | Kirsten Macfarlane, University of Oxford
"Lay Readings of the Bible in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World"
Mar 19, 2024, 4:30 pm6:00 pm
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Economic History Workshop | Brian Rogers, Princeton University
"The Making of Commuters in Japan: Urban Textile Workers and Labor Management at the Turn of the Twentieth Century”
Mar 20, 2024, 12:00 pm1:20 pm
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Eighteenth Century Seminar | Henrietta Harrison, University of Oxford
"Chinese Pulse Diagnosis in Eighteenth Century Naples"
Mar 20, 2024, 4:30 pm6:00 pm
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Early Modern History Workshop | Johanna Rozakis-Siu, Princeton University
"Mouros and Rumes: Portuguese Geographic Imagination in the Indian Ocean"
Mar 21, 2024, 12:00 pm1:30 pm
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