Archived Stories

Peter Fraunholtz Organizes Panel and Presents for Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies

Professor of the Practice, Marty Blatt, interviewed on WBUR about Faneuil Hall and how it should address its history of slavery

Incoming Chair and Professor of History Timothy Brown Interviewed About the 75th Anniversary of D-Day by News@Northeastern

Professor Marty Blatt publishes blog on King Philip’s War for MASS Humanities

Assistant Professor Philip Thai interviewed for New Books Network podcast

Assistant Professor Philip Thai publishes short essay entitled “Tariffs and Unintended Consequences: The Case of China’s War on Smuggling”

Public History students blog about the legacy of Crispus Attucks for King Street (Official Blog of the Bostonian Society)

Doctoral Candidate in History, Matthew Bowser, announced as one of the winners of the AHA blog contest

The Maryland Historical Society has awarded “Steam Titans” by Professor Emeritus William Fowler, Jr. the Marion Brewington Book Prize

Molly Nebiolo accepted to the 2018 Concordia University international summer graduate school with a full tuition award

Recent Doctorate of History Alum Dr. Sana Tannoury-Karam Accepts Postdoctoral Position at Rice University

Doctorate of History Student Bridget Keown Accepts Fellowship at the Humanities Center

Doctoral student of History Molly Nebiolo publishes three blog posts and wins NULab Seedling Grant

Professor of History Timothy Brown discusses the 50th anniversary of 1968 with C.S. Soong of Against the Grain

History majors Ian Donnelly and Meghan Jones to present at the 4th annual CSSH Undergraduate Research Forum on March 22nd

Masters in Public History student Caroline Klibanoff will speak at CSSH Masters graduation ceremony

Doctoral candidate Feruza Aripova awarded the Dissertation Grant for Graduate Students from the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies

History doctoral candidate James Robinson published online in Process: a blog for American history

January 25, 2018 was declared “William Fowler, Jr. Day” by Boston Mayor, Marty Walsh

In Memoriam: Clay McShane

Professor Emeritus William Fowler Jr. quoted in the Washington Post

Professor Marty Blatt Quoted in the Boston Globe on the Edward M. Kennedy Institute

News@Northeastern honors Professor Bill Fowler upon his retirement

Professor of the Practice Marty Blatt talks about the history behind Flag Day

Professor Marty Blatt comments on Civil War Memory in the Los Angeles Times

Assistant Professor Victoria Cain and Ph.D. Candidate Jack Gronau Awarded Research Grants

Masters in Public History Alum Rebekah Bryer to Attend Northwestern University Doctoral Program in the Fall

The History Department’s Edward Gutiérrez in the Media about World War I

Ph.D. Candidate Bridget Keown Awarded Larkin Fellowship from ACIS

Recent masters in public history graduate hired at Boston Children’s Museum

History’s Jeffrey Burds Interviewed for Time Magazine Article

History Major Nathan Guerin Awarded Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors Award

Assistant Professor Gretchen Heefner’s article “”A Fighter Pilot’s Heaven”: Finding Cold War Utility in the North African Desert” Published in Environmental History

Matthews Distinguished University Professor Harlow Robinson writes liner note essay for Grammy winning CD

Doctoral Graduate alum Stacy Fahrenthold (2014) wins Syrian Studies Association’s prize for Most Outstanding Dissertation

Professor Tom Havens co-edits new book entitled “Global Indigeneities and the Environment” with Karen L. Thornber

Associate Professor Katherine Luongo co-authors Huffington Post think piece on Obama’s Kenya heritage in the 2016 Presidential Race

Professor Marty Blatt interviewed about free love anarchist Ezra Heywood on WGBH

Associate Professor Katherine Luongo’s book entitled “Obama and Kenya: Contested Histories and the Politics of Belonging” now available

History Ph.D. Candidates earn Fellowships in the upcoming Academic Year

Madelyn Stone received Honorable Mention for paper entitled “Reality is the Satire: The Will to Hope in the Writings of Jura Soyfer”

Louise Walker to give public lecture at the University of Cambridge

Professor Tim Brown Named One of the Recipients of the 2016 – 2017 Berlin Prize

History Department Hosts Annual Honors Reception and Phi Alpha Theta Induction Ceremony

Northeastern University professor Jeffrey Burds quoted in article condemning the ‘whitewashing’ of Ukrainian history

Ph.D. Candidate Sana Tannoury Karam Awarded Humanities Center Residential Fellowship

Matthews Distinguished University Professor Harlow Robinson writes liner note essay for Grammy winning CD

Assistant Professor Chris Parsons published in The William and Mary Quarterly

Madelyn Stone to receive prestigious Compass Award

Graduate Students treated to discussion/forum on Holocaust Remembrance and Heidelberg, Germany by Molly Blatt

Professor Gretchen Heefner’s publishes article called ““A Slice of their Sovereignty”: Negotiating the U.S. Empire of Bases, Wheelus Field, Libya, 1950-1954”

Heather Streets-Salter interviewed by New Books in World Affairs for her co-authored book, Empires and Colonies in the Modern World

Dr. William Fowler appointed to the Board of the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities

Physical Therapy Program Centennial Exhibit completed by MA Public History student Aubrey Butts

Professor Laura Frader Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation Center in Bellagio, Italy

Professor Laura Frader the first holder of Gender Equality Chair at the Université de Sorbonne Paris Cité

Professor Gretchen Heefner quoted in The Kansas City Star

Assistant Professor Victoria Cain’s Book “Life on Display” earns History of Education Society’s Annual Book Prize

Humanities Action Lab, National Collaboration Featuring Northeastern University, Awarded $150,000 Grant By Whiting Foundation

Sarah Hudson named one of Northeastern’s Huntington 100

Ben Schmidt Discusses Gendered Language in Professor Reviews

Ben Schmidt Publishes Analysis of the State of the Union in the Atlantic

Assistant Professor Gretchen Heefner quoted in the NY Times.

Victoria Cain Publishes New Book