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Summer 2019 undergraduate courses are now up! Check out our offerings for undergraduate summer course offerings! Registration starts Friday, February 15th. -
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 student Sara Dean to speak at CSSH Graduate Commencement Ceremony on April 29th
Please join the Department of History in congratulating our own Sara Dean (M.A. in Public History, 2019) on being chosen to represent this year’s graduating class of M.A . students at the CSSH commencement ceremony on April 29!
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
