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February 05, 2026
Students in Professor Tiya Miles's course, History 160: Abolitionist Women and Their Worlds, collaborated with the Let Genius Burn podcast to produce an episode titled "Louisa and Abolition." The episode explores Louisa May Alcott's activism within the...
### NYT: How Capitalism Took Over the World
December 02, 2025
### Life and Times of ‘The Birth Certificate of the U.S.’
November 28, 2025
### NYT: "The Old Order Is Dead. Do Not Resuscitate," by Sven Beckert
November 17, 2025
September 22, 2025
### NYT Book Review: ‘We the People,’ by Jill Lepore
September 16, 2025
### Professor Thomas Noel Bisson, In Memoriam
June 28, 2025
We are saddened to share that Thomas Noel Bisson, one of the leading historians of medieval Europe, passed away on June 28, 2025 at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, following a brief illness. He was 94. Bisson was the loving husband of Carroll (Webb)...
### History Staff Member Michelle Cicerano Awarded 2025 FAS Dean’s Distinction
June 23, 2025
### Class of 2025 Phi Beta Kappa Members
June 04, 2025
For more info on Phi Beta Kappa, click https://pbk.fas.harvard.edu/members Junior 24 Kay Rollins Senior 48 Olivia Glunz Final Senior Matthew Allana, Cayla Coleburn, Shruti Gautam, Conner Huey, Elizabeth Resner, Luísa Shida, Chelsea Wang, and Emily...
### Five History Concentrators Win 2024-2025 Hoopes Prize
June 04, 2025
2024-25 Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize Winners Cayla Coleburn for her submission entitled “Behind Bars and Beyond Brown: The NAACP’s Campaign for Civil Rights in Criminal Courts, 1910–1964”—supervised and nominated by Professor Evelyn Higginbotham Shruti...
### 2024-2025 History Department Prize Winners
June 03, 2025
History Department Prizes Franklin and Eleanor Ford Prize Established in 2021 by Charles Maier, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Emeritus , this prize is awarded for the best senior thesis in the Department of History on the history since 1500...
### Kelly Minot McCay Awarded the Harold K. Gross Dissertation Prize
May 23, 2025
Congratulations to Dr. Kelly Minot McCay for being awarded the Gross Prize for her 2024 dissertation entitled “'A writing by strange markes': The Invention of Shorthand in Early Modern England, 1588–1700.” The Harold K. Gross Dissertation Prize is...