Book recommendations from Rutgers History faculty and graduate students to celebrate Black History Month. Enjoy and be inspired! #Rutgers
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Book recommendations from Rutgers History faculty and graduate students to celebrate Black History Month. Enjoy and be inspired! #Rutgers
Put this talk by Rutgers History Ph.D. (2017). Dr. Rebecca Lubot, on your calendar. #Rutgers
Enjoy this podcast with our colleague David Fogelsong about his new book (co-authored with Victoria Zhuraleva and Ivan Kurilla), Distant Friends and Intimate Enemies: A History of AmericanβRussian Relations.
www.patreon.com/posts/150939...
The great historian of medicine, Mary Fissell, will give a talk on abortion in early modern Anglo-America at Rutgers on March 2.
Posting for our friends at the New Brunswick Free Public Library. #Rutgers
Congratulations to Laura!
Congratulations to Sarah Coffman.
Congratulations to Elissa Branum, recipient of a distinguished Mellon graduate fellowship in the humanities 2006. #Rutgers
Congratulations to our colleague Jochen Hellbeck! Professor Hellbeck's book, World Enemy No. 1, is a finalist for the National Jewish Book Awards. www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/world-e...
RCHA invites Faculty and Graduate students to apply for the 2026-2027 seminar "Ugly: Bodies, Aesthetics, and the Politics of the Unpleasant," led by Yesenia Barragan and Elaine LaFay!
To apply, please visit the link below:
rcha.rutgers.edu/future-proje...
The Department of History at Rutgers University is pleased to announce the 48th Annual Susman Graduate Conference: Bearing Witness, Challenging Myth: Imperial Pasts and Fascist Presents. Featuring a keynote lecture by Joseph Kaplan.
Friday, March 27, 2026
Rutgers University, New Brunswick
The Department of History at Rutgers University is pleased to announce the 48th Annual Susman Graduate Conference: Bearing Witness, Challenging Myth: Imperial Pasts and Fascist Presents. Featuring a keynote lecture by Joseph Kaplan. Friday, March 27, 2026. #Rutgers
Not to be missed, a lecture by Dr. Anatoly Pinsky sponsored by the History Department that is so important I'm posting two flyers for the event on Monday, February 23 at 5:30. #Rutgers
Not to be missed, a lecture by Dr. Anatoly Pinsky sponsored by the History Department that is so important I'm posting two flyers for the event on Monday, February 23 at 5:30. #Rutgers
This symposium has been designed for students and faculty across the SAS community. It will explore, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the impact of European cultural and political influences on (and channeled through) Rainer Maria Rilke's work. #Rutgers
Enjoy this review of UNTIL THE LAST GUN IS SILENT: A Story of Patriotism, the Vietnam War, and the Fight to Save Americaβs Soul, by Matthew F. Delmont, by our history department colleague David Greenberg. #Rutgers www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/b...
Not to be missed.. a celebration of Josh Anthony and Cami Townsend's new book. #Rutgers
The Rutgers History Department is delighted to announce that Professor Mita Choudhury (Vassar College) will deliver the Bonnie Smith Lecture in European History on January 29, 2026. All are welcome. #Rutgers
"Bearing Witness, Challenging Myth: Imperial Pasts and Fascist Presents".The Forty-Eighth Annual Susman Conference, March 27, 2026, Rutgers University β New Brunswick
Submission Deadline: January 15, 2026. Please contact susmanconf@history.rutgers.edu with any questions.
Enjoy Sydney Smith's newest History blog post on Kelly Carter Jackson's visit to Rutgers in October 2025. Sydney is a doctoral candidate in History and the History Department's Public Outreach GA. #Rutgers history.rutgers.edu/.../news/new...
The next lecture in the Interpreting American History Lecture Series... This signature lecture series in the Rutgers History Department was founded by our graduate students. #Rutgers
Enjoy this New Books Network podcast interview with Darcie Fontaine (Rutgers History Ph.D.) on her newest book, Modern France and the World (Routledge 2023). #Rutgers newbooksnetwork.com/modern-franc...
Congratulations to Rutgers History Professor Camilla Townsend's translation of an Aztec work on the value of giving thanks. #Rutgers press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
The 2025 Fall Chambers Oral History Fellowship Lecture, featuring Dr. Kiamsha Bynes (PhDβ25, History) and Cherene Aniyan (History) takes place on Nov 20, 2025.! Please join us from noon to 2 PM at the Academic Building, Room 6051.
Enjoy this thoughtful opinion essay by Rutgers History professor Jochen Hellbeck in today's New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...