The Department of History joins the Organization of American Historians in the condemnation of anti-Asian racism and violence, when has […]

When: Tuesday, March 30 at 7:00 pm Where: On Zoom. Registration required, here. The Department of History is pleased to […]

John H. Morrow, Jr, Franklin Professor of History at the University of Georgia, will speak on “Black Achievement and White Denial: African American Soldiers in the World Wars.”

KNOXVILLE—Newly published letters of President James K. Polk shed light on slavery, race riots, and a global cholera pandemic that […]

For Episode 4, The Jangle interviewed Dr. Charles Sanft, Professor of Pre-Modern Chinese History here in the Department. We talk […]

The Papers of Andrew Jackson and the History Department are happy to present the Spring 2021 PAJ Webinar, “Anti-Jacksonian Democratization: […]

We start the new semester off with a new episode of The Jangle. Professor Brandon Winford spoke to us about […]

Each year, Dean Theresa Lee and members of her cabinet, with help from department heads, recognize faculty in the College […]

Charles Sanft, professor and associate head of the history department, received the 2020 James Henry Breasted Prize for his second […]

Henry Bergh (in top hat) stopping an overcrowded horsecar, from Harper’s Weekly, Sept. 21, 1872. Library of Congress Ernest Freeberg, […]