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History

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History is at the core of a liberal arts education, illuminating the ideas, institutions, and sentiments by which people have attempted to order their world.

Adriana M. Brodsky
- Department Chair
Kent Hall 326
February 21, 2024
Professor of History Betül Başaran attended the conference "Perceptions de la guerre et de la sortie de guerre au Moyen-Orient (1918-1923): Expériences, narrations, re-construction des identités et perspectives" in Paris, where she gave a talk entitled "Niloufer Hanım Sultan: An Exiled Ottoman… Find Out More
February 13, 2024
Professor of History Christine Adams was a guest on “The Royal Studies Podcast” on Feb. 9 in a roundtable discussion on royal mistresses and the important part they played in the French and English monarchies. Adams was joined by Tracy Adams, professor in European Languages and Literatures at the… Find Out More
January 29, 2024
Linda Jones Hall, professor emerita of history, has a new book, "The Poems of Optatian: Puzzling out the Past in the Time of Constantine the Great" (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024). 
Publilius Optatianus Porfyrius (Optatian) was sent into exile by Constantine sometime after the Emperor's ascent to… Find Out More
January 11, 2024
Professor of History Christine Adams was published in TIME magazine’s “Made by History” column on Jan. 5. Adams’ op-ed, titled “It’s Hard for a Nation to Come Back from Deprioritizing Democracy” compares the current U.S. political battles with the 1848 Frankfurt Assembly's failure to unify Germany… Find Out More
October 31, 2023
“Historical Tapestry: Adele France and John LaFarge in Southern Maryland,” by Janet Butler Haugaard, editor emerita of St. Mary’s College of Maryland, is now available at the campus bookstore and its online store. The book’s release coincides with the 100-year anniversary of Adele France’s… Find Out More
October 26, 2023
Associate Professor Sarah Malena of the Department of History contributed the chapter “History Without Texts: Interdisciplinary Interpretive Methods for Understanding the Early Iron Age” to a collection of essays in honor of prominent archaeologist and mentor Thomas E. Levy.

Malena’s chapter… Find Out More
September 18, 2023
Books edited by Professor of History Adriana M. Brodsky and Professor of English Jennifer Cognard-Black are both featured in the fall 2023 catalog of publications by the New York University Press.

Brodsky’s co-edited collection with Laura Arnold Leibman, “Jews Across the Americas: A Sourcebook,… Find Out More
September 11, 2023
Professor of History Christine Adams provides the introduction to Madame de Maintenon and her political and cultural influence during the late reign of King Louis XIV as part of Opera Lafayette's Salon Series on September 20 in Washington, D.C.  Adams' talk, "The Secret Wife," is followed by a… Find Out More
August 28, 2023
Professor of History Charles Holden co-authored with Zach Messitte and Jerald Podair, an article that appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books on August 27. "Oh, We Knew Agnew: On Spiro Agnew's Lasting Legacy" looks at political buffoonery as part of Agnew's legacy and how it remains relevant… Find Out More
July 10, 2023
Professor of History Charles J. Holden was published in The Washington Post on June 27. The historical perspective article is titled "Some GOP rhetoric is similar to that of American Nazis from the 1970s."

A historian whose research interests span American history from the Civil War Era through… Find Out More