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Department of History

By pushing the boundaries of the human story across time, space, cultures, and media, we reveal the interconnected narrative threads and patterns of our individual and collective lives.

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CFP: Diasporic Legacies of the Mediterranean

On campus 27-28 April, 2023

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Celebrating Outstanding Alumni Awardee Kelley Lindquist

On Friday, October 27, friends, alumni, faculty, and staff gathered to honor Kelley Lindquist, 2020 recipient of the University of Minnesota's Outstanding Achievement Award.

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Announcing Spring '23 Premodern Courses

Register for Spring '23 Premodern courses today

Video: Community Engaged Scholar Professor William P. Jones Talks about His Research

Jones’ community-engagement in the area of US labor and African American history centers on the voices of workers and union activists to promote multiracial organizing that…

Yalile Suriel: Understanding Intersections Between Universities and Society

As a new assistant professor in the Department of History, Yalile Suriel encourages students “to explore big questions related to concepts of the university, the carceral…

Upcoming Events

December 13, 2022

"In the Freud Laboratory: Psychoanalysis and Jewish Languages"

This colloquium will revolve around the translation and reception of Freud's work in Jewish languages, focusing in particular on the interest translators and reviewers took in…

December 13, 2022

"Remembering the 93: Sexual Violence in Ultra-Orthodox Holocaust Memory"

Naomi Seidman is the Chancellor Jackman Professor of the Arts in the Department for the Study of Religion and the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the…