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Spring 2019 courses are now up! Check out our offerings for both our undergraduate course offerings and our Graduate course offerings for Spring semester now available! Registration starts November 9th! -
Congratulations to Associate Professor of History Gretchen Heefner on winning the Charles Warren Visiting Fellowship at Harvard University in addition to being named a recipient of the College of Social Sciences and Humanities 2017-2018 Outstanding Teaching Award! -
Interested in our Graduate Programs? Attend one of our next Open Houses! Click here for more info -
Breaking History: a new World History Podcast created and run by the Northeastern University History Graduate Students. Episodes now streaming! -
January 25, 2018 was proclaimed William Fowler, Jr. Day by Boston Mayor Marty Walsh in honor of Professor Emeritus William Fowler, Jr. -
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The Boston Maps Project investigates urban and social change in the city of Boston using historical maps.
Welcome to the Department of History
In summer 2015, the World History Association moved its institutional headquarters to Northeastern University’s History Department, home to one of the oldest and most successful World History Ph.D. programs in the country. The Department is pleased to enter into this partnership with the premier World History organization in the world.
History News
Masters in Public History Alum Kara Zelasko Accepts Job with the Cultural Department of Meridian International Center
Masters of Public History alum Kara Zelasko will be moving to DC to start working in the Cultural Department of Meridian International Center as a Program Associate. Most of her time will be dedicated to creating traveling exhibitions focusing on US international relations history and will also help facilitate some public programs Meridian offers. Kara graduated from…
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Professor Marty Blatt publishes blog on King Philip’s War for MASS Humanities
Professor of the Practice and Director of the Public History Program Marty Blatt has recently published a blog post for MASS Humanities entitled “King Philip’s War and the Cultural Landscape of Boston”
Assistant Professor Philip Thai interviewed for New Books Network podcast
Philip Thai, Assistant Professor of History, was recently interviewed for the New Books Network podcast about his new book “China’s War on Smuggling: Law, Economics, Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842 – 1965.” now available through Columbia Press. You can listen to the podcast here
Assistant Professor Victoria Cain Gives Keynote Address at the Shanghai International Museum Forum
Victoria Cain, Assistant Professor of History at Northeastern University, recently returned from Shanghai China where she gave the keynote address at the Shanghai International Museum Form. In addition to the keynote address, Professor Cain also took part in a panel focusing on Naturalists and Museum Collections with her talk entitled “Fifty Years of Searching for…
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History Events
11/30/2018
Dissertation Defense: “The Elephant in the Room: Empire Animals, and Visual Culture in Interwar London” by David DeCamp
Name: David DeCamp Department: History Dissertation Title: The Elephant in the Room: Empire Animals, and Visual Culture in Interwar London Date and Time: Friday, November 30, 2018, 10:00am-12:00pm Location: 206 Meserve Hall
11/30/2018
Dissertation Defense: “Impossible Indochina: Obstacles, Issues and Failures of French Colonial Exploration in Southeast Asia, 1862-1914” by Olivier Schouteden
Name: Olivier J.-F. Schouteden Department: History Dissertation Title: Impossible Indochina: Obstacles, Issues and Failures of French Colonial Exploration in Southeast Asia, 1862-1914 Date and time: 30 November 2018, 12pm – 2pm Location: 206 Meserve Hall, Northeastern University
12/03/2018
Humanities Center Fellows Present “Cultures of Ability”
The Humanities Center Fellows, including Doctoral candidate in History, Bridget Keown, will present their works on the theme of “Cultures of Ability”. More information to come.
