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Find out how exciting early American history was by taking American Civ I in Autumn quarter! Open sections: WF 1:30-2:50 and 3-4:20.

HIST 21013 Plunder, Theft, Forgery: Crime and Cultural Property in the Ancient Mediterranean and Today Poster. Instructor, Elizabeth Heintges, Mondays and Wednesdays 4:30-5:50.

HIST 22213 Without a Label: The Emergence of Modern Jewish Self in the 19th Century Poster. Instructor, Svetlana Natkovich. Thursdays 8-10:50

HIST 28303 Science and Liberalism Poster. Instructor, Isabel Gabel. Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30-10:50

HIST 29683 Race, Slavery, and Nation Poster. Instructor, Rashauna Johnson. Tuesdays 9:30-12:20

Here's a peek at some of the amazing courses we'll be offering in Autumn 2025!

HIST 21013 Plunder, Theft, Forgery: Crime and Cultural Property in the Ancient Mediterranean and Today Poster. Instructor, Elizabeth Heintges, Mondays and Wednesdays 4:30-5:50.

HIST 22213 Without a Label: The Emergence of Modern Jewish Self in the 19th Century Poster. Instructor, Svetlana Natkovich. Thursdays 8-10:50

HIST 28303 Science and Liberalism Poster. Instructor, Isabel Gabel. Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30-10:50

HIST 29683 Race, Slavery, and Nation Poster. Instructor, Rashauna Johnson. Tuesdays 9:30-12:20

Here's a peek at some of the amazing courses we'll be offering in Autumn 2025!

Congratulations to alumna Sarah L. H. Gronningsater, UChicago History PhD 2014, for winning the 2025 James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic for her book, The Rising Generation (Penn, 2024)!

Congratulations to Gowri Rao (Linguistics major; History minor, 2022) who was awarded a Fulbright HAEF English Teaching Assistant Award in Greece and
Elena Tiedens (History major; Russian & Eastern European Studies minor, BA/MA 2025) who was awarded an English Teaching Assistant Award in Kyrgyzstan!

Congrats to the 2025-26 Center for International Social Science Research Dissertation Fellows, including UChicago History's Xiaoyu Gao!

Xiaoyu's dissertation: “Empire of Copper: British and American Global Trade, Chilean Copper, and the Transformation of Chinese Monetary System (1800-1862).”

HISTORY | Topics, Shows and This Day in History Fascinating stories from the past you can trust, plus hit shows.

What was the Renaissance anyway? In an interview about her new book, Inventing the Renaissance, Ada Palmer discusses this very question with Sophia Hollander.
www.history.com/articles/4-m...

Tara Zahra

Tara Zahra, the Hanna Holborn Gray Professor of East European History and the College, has been reappointed as the Roman Family Director of the Neubauer Collegium. news.uchicago.edu/story/tara-z...

Associate Professor of History, Eleonory Gilburd is one of just four UChicago faculty members to receive a 2025 Quantrell Award. Congratulations, Prof. Gilburd! Read more about the award and Prof. Gilburd in the UChicago News article: news.uchicago.edu/story/uchica...

Nicholas O'Neill

UChicago Alumnus Nicholas O'Neill's 2022 dissertation, "The Political Economy of Taste: The State and the Porcelain Industry in France, 1682-1815," has been shortlisted for the IEHA's triennial dissertation prize at the 2025 WEHC. Congratulations!
wehc2025.com/conference_p...

‘The Only Person in the World Claiming to Be the Pope Right Now’

Assoc. Prof. Ada Palmer's course, "The Italian Renaissance: Dante, Machiavelli and the Wars of Popes and Kings is featured in the NYT Article, "‘The Only Person in the World Claiming to Be the Pope Right Now"
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...

UChicago Women’s Distance Medley Relay Team Wins National Championship - Chicago Maroon “Nerds, nerds, nerds” exclaimed NCAA announcer Will Leer, watching as a three way tie between academic heavyweights UChicago, MIT, and Johns Hopkins was carried into the final leg of the distance medl...

Congratulations to History Undergraduate Nora Holmes and her teammates Ren Brown, Claudia Harnett, and Emma Kelly on winning the Distance Medley Relay at the NCAA National Track and Field Championship!
chicagomaroon.com/47038/sports...

Daniel Fernandez

UChicago History
Congratulations to History PhD Candidate, Daniel Fernandez who was awarded a 2025 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship!

www.acls.org/fellow-grant...

Paying Taxes Used to Be Patriotic In the 1950s, the wealthy were willing to pay higher taxes. Here's how America's fiscal patriotism unraveled.

UChicago History alumna, Betsy Wood (PhD '11), just published a new piece in TIME Magazine on how American attitudes towards taxation have shifted since the Second World War. time.com/7274242/taxe...

All are invited to attend the Minority Identities and Vernacular Visual Culture: Interdisciplinary symposium on May 9-10, 2025 at the Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago. See the website for details: www.not-so-ordinary.us/symposium2025

ENERGY—CAPITAL—METABOLISM
April 24–25, 2025
Social Science Research Building & 1155 E. 60th St.
tinyurl.com/3ax7mtdw

Freedom for Sale - Dissent Magazine The government funds institutions that stretch across American society. The Trump administration is demanding the relinquishment of constitutional rights to keep the money flowing.

Associate Professor of History, Amy Dru Stanley, on academic freedom and American history teaching in "Freedom for Sale" in Dissent Magazine.

www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Stone archways at the University of Chicago

We're pleased to announce that The Department of History at UChicago has been ranked second in the country for history graduate programs by US News & World Report. The report is based on peer assessment. Congratulations to our faculty for their excellence and dedication!

UChicago History PhD Alumnae Sonia Gomez, Sarah L. H. Gronningsater, and Trish Kahle were each awarded prizes for their scholarship at the annual Organization of American Historians (OAH) meeting last week. Congratulations! www.oah.org/wp-content/u...

TOMORROW (4/8) Please join us at 4:30 in SSRB 224 for the annual John Hope Franklin Lecture, "On Losing and Gaining Conceptual Languages," by David Scott (Columbia), who will be joined in conversation with Natacha Nsabimana (UChicago). A reception will follow.

Please note that the lecture is WEDNESDAY, April 2 at 5 PM. Hope to see you there!

Tomorrow (4/2): Bathsheba Demuth will be delivering the second annual Shapiro Lecture titled "History from the Dogsled: Animals, Climates, and the Stakes of Telling the Past." Please join us at 5 PM in the John Hope Franklin Room (SSRB 224). A reception will follow.

Please join the Department of History for “State of the Field: A Conversation About US History” on April 16 at 4:30 in the John Hope Franklin Room (SSRB 224). The event will feature Sven Beckert, Martha Jones, and David Waldstreicher.

The John Hope Franklin Lecture has been rescheduled! Please join us on April 8 at 4:30 in SSRB 224 for a lecture, "On Losing and Gaining Conceptual Languages," by David Scott (Columbia), who will be joined in conversation with Natacha Nsabimana (UChicago). A reception will follow.

Undergraduate students are invited to a lecture and discussion with Bathsheba Demuth (Brown) on April 3 at 11 in SSRB 224. Prof. Demuth will speak on how the non-human animates her historical work. Lunch will be provided. Please scan the QR code to RSVP. www.bbc.com/audio/series...

Join us for the second annual Shapiro Distinguished Lecture on April 2 at 5 PM in the John Hope Franklin Room (SSRB 224). Bathsheba Demuth (Brown University) will present her paper, “History from the Dogsled: Animals, Climates, and the Stakes of Telling the Past."

Congrats to UC alum, Robert Suits, whose article "Hoboes, Wheat, and Climate Precarity" won the 2024 Alice Hamilton Prize for Best Article from the ASEH and the Vernon Carstensen Prize for Best Article in the journal Agricultural History from the Agricultural History Society!

Elena Tiedens, a History major, was selected as a Gates Cambridge Scholar! Elena's thesis examines the history of nuclear-powered icebreakers in the arctic. At Cambridge, Elena will receive an MPhil in Arctic Studies at the Scott Polar Research Institute. Congratulations, Elena!

Please note that today's scheduled John Hope Franklin Lecture with David Scott has been rescheduled. Details coming soon!

Congratulations to Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of History and the College, Bruce Cumings, for receiving the Association for Asian Studies, Inc. (AAS) Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies award!

www.asianstudies.org/aas-2025-pri...