The Department of History provides a window through which students can study the globe and all human activity. An understanding of the past helps students understand how people construct, try to live in, and change their social, political, and symbolic worlds.
Tocqueville Lecture Series: Daniel T. Rodgers
- History Feature Stories
Kyle Bell, '09History and LAIS double major awarded Fulbright Grant
Joanna DrellMedieval Italy scholar co-edits 500-page primary sourcebook
Erna BrodberCelebrated Jamaican author spends semester at Richmond
Snead Essay ContestThree students' essays on early American history win contest
Drew Howell, '10Student researcher returns to Seville for second summer
Mark McGarvieAttorney turned historian takes the helm of pre-law program
Chris Florio, '09Student spends summer hanging out with Abraham Lincoln, all in the name of research
Ella Fratantuono, '08History major studies pre-WWI perceptions of Ottoman Empire
- History News
- UR lecture series to focus on American studies, literature and art
- Applications to participate in Student Research Symposium due Feb. 26
- Submissions Now Being Accepted for Core Essay Contest; Deadline is March 22
- History department announces spring 2010 speaker series
- Spring 2010 history registration guide released
- Courses on historical evolution of Islamic society
- History department announces fall 2009 lecture series
- School of Arts & Sciences welcomes 16 new tenured or tenure-track faculty and three directors
- History Events
- February 11The Tocqueville Spring Lecture Series: "Transnational Melville" - 4:30 p.m.
- February 18Tocqueville Lecture Series: What Marco Polo Forgot: Asian Art Reconfigures the Global" - 4:30 p.m.
- February 21Fact or Fiction: The Active Involvement of Blacks in the Civil War - 2:00 p.m.
- February 25“Thoughts on Incest: Shifting Discourses Since the Renaissance” - 7:30 p.m.
