UConn History Dept

What a showing out of UConn graduate students at the 2025 SHEAR conference!

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The extended UConn History family had a great time at @shearites.bsky.social this past weekend!

Special congratulations to @profmsinha.bsky.social on a successful term as SHEAR President!

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Have a great weekend at the 2025 SHEAR meeting to the UConn faculty and grads in attendance, including our own Maisha Sinha, who is the current president of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic!

Water from the Rock A multifaceted history of Black resistance during the War of Independence

PUB DATE today folks happy to have written the foreward to Sylvia Frey's classic on black resistance in the south during the American Revolution, one of my favorite books in grad school. @princetonupress.bsky.social did a great job with the new edition. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Congratulations to the UConn History faculty, grads, and affiliates attending the annual SHAFR Conference in Arlington, VA!

Frank Costigiola
Bradley Simpson
Grace Easterly
Gabrielle Westcott

Folks avoid the heat and join us for this zoom webinar today www.americanancestors.org/events/march...

Abraham Lincoln Wasn't Born an Abolitionist, He Became One We live in polarized times when freedom is threatened but this Juneteenth we should remind ourselves that we have overcome far worse

this wonderful piece from @profmsinha.bsky.social gets to what was truly great about lincoln — his open mind and great capacity for moral growth www.theunpopulist.net/p/abraham-li...

Congratulations to Mamiri Imai of @uconnhistory.bsky.social for being selected and completing the Sex Gender and Print seminar at the American Antiquarian Society!

Enhancing Career Readiness: Doctoral Students at Work Featuring Timothy Brown, Graduate Assistant at the Humanities Institute How his Graduate Assistantship has contributed to PhD student, Timothy Brown’s, career readiness.

My interview for a blog series to discuss my Graduate Assistantship with @uconnhumanities.bsky.social and share advice about applying skills to different positions. I also talked about my work with EPOCH (w/ @uconnhistory.bsky.social) and @shearites.bsky.social.
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Former Connecticut Gov. Rowland receives pardon from President Trump Former Connecticut Gov. John Rowland received a pardon from President Donald Trump.

Historian here presidential pardon is in the Constitution but the founders did not imagine they could be solicited through bribes or upend the rule of law. My take here.https://www.wfsb.com/2025/05/28/former-connecticut-governor-john-rowland-receives-pardon-by-president-trump/

Check out @profmsinha.bsky.social featured in a recent @nytimes.com piece!

Link below:

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More exciting work from Prof. Vernal!

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One Brief Shining Moment | Adam Hochschild In the sweltering days of early July 1913, more than 50,000 men gathered for a most unusual reunion. To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of

Grades submitted, semester is over! Thanks to my wonderful undergraduate students who nominated me for the Provost’s teaching and mentorship award. And to top it this relatively nice review of #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Frank Costigliola's Recent Book Wins Sharon Harris Book Award | Department of History Congratulations to Professor Frank Costigliola, whose recent biography of US diplomat and strategist George Kennan was just named a co-winner of the Sharon ...

We’re thrilled to announce that Frank Costigliola has been named a co-winner of the Sharon Harris Book Award, from @uconnhumanities.bsky.social⁦‪‬⁩!

Details below:

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Trump 100 days: White House action plan makes Project 2025 look mild Donald Trump tried to distance himself from the radical rightwing blueprint for government during the campaign but its prescriptions are all over the administration’s agenda

Historian here quotes in this article in @theguardian.com on Trump’s first hundred days and yes it’s going worse than you imagined. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Volume 20 Issue 2 | Journal of Vietnamese Studies | University of California Press

Check out this special addition of the Journal of Vietnamese Studies, featuring our own Nu-Anh Tran!

online.ucpress.edu/jvs/issue/20/2

PSA for any of our Arkansas followers!

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Our Ecological World: Oceans & Waterways. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Part of the Thinking Globally in 2025 Series. Historically, oceans and waterways have both connected and divided human interaction. This pattern continues in the contemporary ways that oceans and wate...

Check out this awesome event TOMORROW (4/22)! Details below:

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Unfortunately we are having technical difficulties with the livestream for the #DraperSeries. We are working hard to get a working stream, and will have a full recording available, when the event concludes.

Today’s the day! The #DraperSeries is happening from 4-6

Join Greg Grandin, @laurenfturek.bsky.social, Moon-Ho Jung, @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social, and @profmsinha.bsky.social for a discussion of American imperialism and its present-day implications!

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We’re closing in on the release of our own @emmaamador.bsky.social’s new book, published by @dukepress.bsky.social!

Out soon!

We are so excited to welcome @laurenfturek.bsky.social, Greg Grandin, and Moon-Ho Jung to Storrs to join our own @profmsinha.bsky.social and @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social TOMORROW (4/17) for the Spring 2025 #DraperSeries!

RSVP for livestream here:
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So excited to see my @uconnhistory.bsky.social colleague’s work out in the world. @emmaamador.bsky.social www.dukeupress.edu/the-politics...

Jeffrey Ogbar — Black Movement: African American Urban History Since the Great Migration — at Conn Ave

We’re so excited to announce the launch of a new book edited by Prof. Jeffrey Ogbar, with essays by Prof. ⁦‪Fiona Vernal‬⁩ and Prof. @melanienewport.bsky.social!

Check out the details below, from @politicsprose.bsky.social:

politics-prose.com/jeffrey-ogbar

Huge congratulations to our own Dr. David Evans for successfully defending his PhD dissertation!

Hey #skystorians if you are in Worcester, Massachusetts join us today evening at the College of the Holy Cross.

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Folks wish me luck this week, today at the New York Historical at 6.30 pm, tomorrow I will be delivering the Bosworth Memorial lecture in American History at Yale in New Haven (poster below), Thursday at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Friday at the Nau center in UVA, Charlottesville.

From the Confederacy to The Gilded Age: Manisha Sinha on the "sorry history" that inspires MAGA Manisha Sinha spoke to Salon about Donald Trump's 19th-century vision and America's history of radical resistance.

Check out this interview with historian @profmsinha.bsky.social on the parallels between today and the nineteenth century. 🗃️ www.salon.com/2025/04/04/f...

TOMORROW: Foreign Policy Seminar, featuring Christopher Nichols!

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