Thanks to generous donations from alumni and support from the Office of Undergraduate Research, six history majors joined professors...

Valentine’s day first started as a three day long event — from the 13th to the 15th of February, ancient Romans celebrated the feast of...

In the beginning of the semester, we welcomed a new addition into our office! Sam is the History Department Peer Advisor, which means he...

There is a lot of history about what makes Halloween, Halloween. Here, we're going to break down the Celtic origins of it! Halloween is...

A recent graduate of our Masters program, Laura Cernik, spent the summer in Iceland with the Dorothy Rosenberg-Paser Fellowship. Here,...

Thank you to everyone who came to our Mel Weekend events! This past weekend, October 4-7 2018, we held two successful events to celebrate...

We’re SO thankful to have Professor Jarvis, and the rest of his team back from their adventures in Ghana this summer. In honor of the...

The Battle of Lake Erie, also known as the Battle of Put-in-Bay, was fought on September 10th, 1813, on Lake Erie off the coast of Ohio...

Happy Fourth of July! We’re doing a special edition of #OTD in History, and looking back at important events that have taken place across...

Happy #historyhumpday!! On this beautiful April 25th, were giving you 25 (!) interesting facts that you probably didn’t learn in school....

The semester is rapidly coming to an end, and finals week is approaching more quickly than many of us would like. The end of the school...

On this day in history, we're exploring the ever present, and very real, fear of the number 13, and the origin surrounding the...

For today's #HistoryHumpDay, on the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr's. assassination, we are traveling back in time to explore...

March is women's history month, and we're continuing our celebration with a list of little known facts about the beloved Susan B. Anthony....

To celebrate the redesign of our blog, we are introducing the department’s professional and student staff in a 6-part “Staff Spotlight”...

Happy International Women's Day! The month of March celebrates the contributions women have made throughout history in science, politics,...

To celebrate the redesign of our blog, we are introducing the department’s professional and student staff in a 6-part “Staff Spotlight”...

To celebrate the redesign of our blog, we are introducing the department’s professional and student staff in a 6-part “Staff Spotlight”...

To celebrate the redesign of our blog, we are introducing the department’s professional and student staff in a 6-part “Staff Spotlight”...