In 1902 The New York Times ran an Op-Ed entitled “Journalism and History” in which the Times went head to head with Rev. Dr. Parkhurst over the relationship between history and journalism. Dr. Parkhurst adamantly defended the superiority of history … Read more

Within the department, Peter Filene is known for being an extraordinary teacher, the longtime director of the Committee on Teaching, the namesake of the department’s TA award for creative teaching, and a committed mentor to graduate students. Since his retirement, … Read more

In the summer of 1945 UNC-CH accepted its first Japanese-American student, Shizuko Hayashi, largely thanks to the activism of UNC-CH historian Howard K. Beale. As part of a larger project to resettle Japanese-American college students during internment in World War … Read more

What began as a companion website for an academic book project is nearing completion as a unique digital humanities resource on gender and military history based at UNC-CH. In April 2017, “GWonline: the bibliography, filmography and webography on Gender, War … Read more

Over the years, the departments of history at UNC-CH and King’s College London (KCL) have built a strong partnership that now includes graduate student programs, conferences, and co-edited books. Most recently, UNC-CH hosted a graduate student conference, which marked the … Read more

Griffin Creech ’16 won the 2016 Raymond J. Cunningham Prize awarded by the American Historical Association for the best article published in a history department journal in the academic year 2015-2016 written by an undergraduate student. His article, “‘Our Revolutionary … Read more

Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor Kathleen Duval’s Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution (2015) has won the 2016 Deep South Book Prize given by the Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the … Read more

Emily Burrill won the 2016 Alf Andrew Heggoy Prize awarded by the French Colonial Historical Society, for her book States of Marriage: Gender, Justice, and Rights in Colonial Mali (2015).  She is the director of the African Studies Center at … Read more

In this issue, the department’s newsletter highlights several of our alums and our faculty members. In addition to writing scholarly books and articles our faculty and our alums have also displayed talents and commitments that extend well beyond the conventional … Read more

Karen Hagemann, James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor, has won the 2016 Hans Rosenberg Book Prize for Revisiting Prussia’s Wars against Napoleon: History, Culture and Memory (2015). The prize is awarded by the Central European History Society for the best book … Read more