History Department

History is not a body of facts to be transferred temporarily from the erudition of a professor to the memory of a student. It is a way of understanding the whole of the human condition as it has unfolded in time. History is one of the largest departments at Wesleyan and is home to a distinguished group of teacher-scholars whose work ranges from the medieval to the post-modern, from the Middle East to the Midwest, from gender and sexuality to science and economics, from micro-history to world history.  Faculty in History have been at the forefront of interdisciplinary work and program building at Wesleyan for over five decades.

HISTORY DEPARTMENT UPCOMING EVENTS:

THE LIBRARY AS AN ARCHIVE, OR POETRY AND THE HISTORIAN

In the archives with

PROFESSOR  JAVIER  CASTRO-IBASETA

What is a historian doing in a library? What constitutes an archive? Can poetry seriously be the concern of historiography?  Follow me to the manuscript poetry section of the Spanish National Library in Madrid, and I will try to show you how the library becomes an archive when examined from an historical perspective, and how archives are actually produced by the historian's gaze.


Monday, February 20, starting 12:00 P.M., Allbritton 311

Food and resfreshments served

Sponsored by the History Department

HISTORY DEPARTMENT OPEN HOUSE

For: Prospective History Majors

A chance to meet other history majors and faculty, learn more about the major and ask questions.

Monday, February 20, starting 12:00 P.M., Allbritton 311

Food and refreshments served

PROMISE AND PERIL: AMERICA AT THE DAWN OF A GLOBAL AGE

Christopher McKnight Nichols

Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in U.S. History, University of Pennsylvania

Nichols graduated Phi Beta Kappa with honors from Wesleyan University in 2000 and holds an MA and PhD from the University of Virginia.  A specialist in the history of U.S.'s role in the world and in American intellectual and political history from the late 19th century through the present

Thursday, March 29, 4:15 P.M., Allbritton 311

Refreshments served

Sponsored by the History Department
History department video
See our new video,
Welcome to the History Department

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5 Questions With . . . Jennifer Tucker on Mars, Victorian England

Tucker Receives Huntington Fellowship in U.K.

William Pinch video
Meet the Chair, William Pinch