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📰 Prof. Jonathan Hagel has been featured in KU Today for his role as a plaintiff in the case against the state of New Jersey about the handling of the Charles Lindbergh archive.🛩️🧬
Learn more about the steps Hagel is taking to ensure history remains accurate & truthful: bit.ly/KUNewsHagel
We’re thrilled to relay that Dr. Andrew Denning has been promoted to Full Professor effective 2025-26. Please join our department in congratulating and celebrating Denning for reaching this significant career milestone! Congratulations, Dr. Denning! 🎉
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We are thrilled to introduce Dr. Hayden Nelson! Hayden successfully defended his dissertation this afternoon. Our department is extremely proud of Hayden’s hard work, dedication, and success. Congratulations to Dr. Nelson on being officially #PhDone! 👏🎉🥳
28.04.2025 20:50 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Manifest destiny was a highly contested and highly divisive notion, according to a @kuhistorydept.bsky.social professor whose latest book is out from @uncpress.bsky.social. “There was always considerable resistance to it.”
news.ku.edu/news/article...
Congratulations to Sheyda Jahanbani, Kent Blansett, Abigail Grace Scott, Ridwan Muhammed, and Han Mao for earning awards from the @hallcenter.bsky.social which will allow them to continue their groundbreaking humanities research.
Our department is so proud of these scholars! 👏📚📜🎉
🔗bit.ly/3R83YXc
Last Friday we asked our department “What’s one good thing that happened to you this week?” Our colleagues did not disappoint. 📰✨
What’s one good that happened to you this week?
🎉🥳 This month marks the one-year anniversary of the audio book release of Sheyda Jahanbani's, “Poverty of the World: Rediscovering the Poor at Home and Abroad, 1941-1968."
Celebrate by snagging your copy at 70% off: bit.ly/4kgiREa
A @kuhistorydept.bsky.social scholar reveals the complex narrative of Spanish contact with the New World and the ensuing conflict, negotiation and cooperation in a new book from @upcolorado.bsky.social
news.ku.edu/news/article...
As we enjoy another snow day, KU History Department stands in solidarity with the employees of Haskell Indian Nations University who abruptly lost their jobs as part of the nation-wide cuts to the federal workforce. Learn more in this story written by KU alumni, Molly Adams 🔗 bit.ly/3CY1Kq0
19.02.2025 17:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
White sheet cake with red piping that reads “Happy Birthday Frederick Douglass” with an image of Douglass.
Happy Birthday Frederick Douglass! Join us in Watson Library to celebrate! @douglassday.bsky.social
14.02.2025 17:22 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Happy Douglass Day!!!
Happening now in Watson Library until 2:00 pm. Bring your laptop and let's make some history together.
@douglassday.bsky.social #Douglassday2025
