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Prof. Kars a finalist for Frederick Douglas Book Prize

Congratulations to Prof. Marjoleine Kars. Her book Blood on the River is one of three finalists for Yale and The Gilder Lehrman Center's annual Frederick Douglas Book Prize! August 2,...

August 4, 2021 · 8:18 PM

New HIST 200 (World History) on Islamic Empires

Students do you need a lower level History course to fulfill the core requirements for the History major or minor? Dr. Noor Zaidi is offering a new section of Hist 200: Islamic Empires:...

June 7, 2021 · 11:09 AM

Congratulations to our History B.A. Grads!

Congratulations to the Spring 2021 History B.A. Graduates! Jake Arbaugh Zain C. Bamji Minors: Philosophy, Political Science John P. Basso-Luca Umar Boone Second Degree: Political Science...

May 21, 2021 · 2:49 PM

Hot off the Presses: The History Department Newsletter '21

Dear Colleagues, Students, Alumni, and Friends of the History Department, I am happy to share with you our annual newsletter. It has been quite a year (!) but we have persevered and are pleased...

May 20, 2021 · 12:09 PM

Congrats Masters' students for defending your theses!

Check out the Spring 2021 abstracts from Historical Studies

Ana Illic-Hein, "Themes of Othering in Croatian and Serbian History Textbooks in the 1950's" Advisor: Daniel Ritchel Abstract: Former Yugoslavia dissolved in the 1990s in brutal civil wars and...

May 12, 2021 · 7:33 AM

New Fall 2021 Course!

HIST 352: Environmental History

This fall, the History Department will be offering a course in Environmental History on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:00 AM-11:15 AM, in person. The course will cover topics such are: the...

May 7, 2021 · 3:28 PM

Phi Alpha Theta Induction

Congratulations to our recent Phi Alpha Theta Inductees

The following students were inducted into the UMBC chapter of Phi Alpha Theta last evening. PAT is a History Honors Society that was founded in 1921. UMBC has had a chapter since the 1970s....

May 5, 2021 · 3:30 PM

Congratulations to the 2021 History Dept. Award Winners

John Bell-Clifford Maas Prize for Academic Excellence Best overall academic record in the Department of History by a history major during his/her years at UMBC Breeding, Mark Kempf,...

April 30, 2021 · 2:51 PM

URCAD Presentations by History Undergraduates

Congratulations to our History students who presented their research at this year's URCAD. URCAD 2021 History Presenters: Matthew Kelbaugh "Visionary or Megalomaniac? The Legacy Of...

April 23, 2021 · 11:26 AM

Article by History BA alum Sarah Driver in the UMBC Review

Volume 22 (2021) of the UMBC Review is out and features an article by Sarah Driver (History BA, 2019) -- "The Domestic Pianist: The Impact of the Parlor Piano on Middle Class Domestic Life in...

April 23, 2021 · 11:17 AM

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