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History PhD alum Melvin Barnes was featured in a recent documentary, "The Lincoln Story," on WOSU.
 "The Lincoln School Story follows a group of Black mothers in Southwest Ohio as they…

Professor David Stebenne has written two pieces for Democracy in America Now. The first, What We Have Learned from the Results in Iowa and New Hampshire, was published Jan. 24th and the second,…

Congratulations to Matthew Raskin on successfully defending his undergraduate honors thesis, "A Story of Cathedrals and Castles: How Ecclesiastics and Chroniclers Used Racism to Build." Pictured…

Graduate student Ben St. Angelo was a historical consultant for the PBS program Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr. which aired on PBS last week. Ben's research on the 1937 Little Steel…

Congratulations to Robin Judd on winning two National Jewish Book Awards for her 2023 publication, "Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides After the Holocaust" (UNC Press). "Between Two Worlds" won…

Congratulations to Christopher Kinley on successfully defending his dissertation, "Demarcating Epirus: Disentangling Religious Communities in Europe's Forgotten Borderland." His advisor is…

A new exhibit, "The Silk Road," curated by Ohio State Marion history professor Amanda Respess and Gayle Strege, Director of Ohio State's Historic Costumes & Textiles Collection, will open Jan.…

Professor Mytheli Sreenivas' book, Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India, has been named a finalist for an ACLS Open Access Book Prize in the history category. One …

Prof. Geoffrey Parker was presented with the 2023 Award for Scholarly Distinction by the American Historical Association at a ceremony this month.  The award is given to senior historians of…