Recipient of a Black Studies Book Award

Please join the department of History in congratulating grad student Taylor Desloge, who received the Lawrence O. Christensen Award.

Please join the Department of History in congratulating Professor Christina Ramos, who has received a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship to support her work on mental hospitals in eighteenth-century Mexico.

One of the most famous literary works of the last two centuries, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein permeates our cultural imagination.

Bedasse foregrounds Rastafari’s enduring connection to black radical politics and establishes Tanzania as a critical site to explore gender, religion, race, citizenship, socialism, and nation.

Countering the standard stories associated with the French countryside, Venus Bivar portrays French farmers as hard-nosed businessmen preoccupied with global trade and mass production.

Please join the Department of History in congratulating Professor Douglas Flowe, who is one of the 2018 Trailblazer Award recipients.

Please join the department of History in congratulating Professor Ken Ludmerer's 2018 Distinguished Faculty award for Graduate Medical Education for Residents and/or Clinical Fellows. 

Arguably the most controversial comment made by Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign involved a blistering critique of presidential candidate Donald Trump’s most enthusiastic supporters.

Professor Maggie Garb discusses this topic on C-SPAN

St. Louis on the Air host Don Marsh talked with Peter Kastor, history professor at Washington University, about the historical accuracy of “Hamilton.”