When Melissa Bullard tracked down the origins of a family heirloom, she embarked on an exciting new project far afield from her usual work. An expert on the Italian Renaissance, who has published widely on the Medici family and Italian … Read more
This spring, Kathleen DuVal received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, which will allow her to spend next year working on her next book, a history of American Indian dominance prior to 1850. DuVal was also elected … Read more
World War II had profound effects on the American home front—including UNC’s Department of History. When the war came to Carolina, our faculty, staff, and students quickly responded to the nation’s changing needs. After the United States declared war in … Read more
In some ways, the average working day of John Hall (M.A. ’03, Ph.D. ’07) as an Army officer is not unlike his workday as a professor of Military History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A lieutenant colonel in the Army … Read more
The Phi Alpha Theta High School History Quiz Bowl – UNC Phi Alpha Theta’s main annual event – is a history trivia competition for regional high schools held every spring. Organized by the History Quiz Bowl Committee, an undergraduate and … Read more
The latest volume highlights the recent work of UNC’s undergraduate and graduate students on the theme “Institutions and the Human Body.” It opens with four outstanding undergraduate articles that point out connections between governments, perceptions, physicians, and disease that constitute …
At a recent departmental symposium, Frances Cayton explained how Radio Free Europe helped Poland gain greater political autonomy from the Soviet Union in 1956. Michael Purello described how American Catholics influenced U.S. foreign policy during the Spanish Civil War. These … Read more We all know that our History majors work their tails off. Doctoral candidate (and Department Historian reporter) Joshua Tait crunched some numbers and found that at a minimum, our Majors read about 10,000 pages, and crank out roughly 25 term … Read more It’s time to bid farewell to our graduating seniors, who are embarking on a fascinating range of professional, service, and academic endeavors. We spoke to just a few of them to find out what they’re doing next—and why they decided … Read more As always, the academic year 2017-18 included an impressive amount of daily achievements by students and faculty in the classroom, exploring history across a vast range of topics, eras, and parts of the world. This newsletter cannot pretend to do … Read more
History Majors Present Original Research at Honors Symposium
May 21, 2018
Prizes, Honors, Accolades
May 21, 2018
Oh, the Places They’ll Go….
May 21, 2018
Note from the Director of Undergraduate Studies
May 21, 2018
