Welcome to the history department at Cornell. The department is committed to pursuing excellence in historical scholarship and teaching across many different time-periods and research interests. Our outstanding faculty and students also specialize in a wide array of historical issues and themes that transcend particular regions and periods. Courses connect students with the excitement of historical discovery, and provide a rigorous training in researching and analyzing the human past.

The history department joins with diverse historians from other Cornell departments to form the graduate field of history, providing expert training for graduate students. Our department thrives on its close relationship with many other departments, centers and area-studies programs in the humanities and social sciences at Cornell.

Upcoming events...

Tuesday, 11/3, Catherine Biba, "Papists' in the Promised Land: The American Baptist Response to American Catholics ," 145 McGraw, 5:00pm

Monday, 11/9, Taran Kang, "Arthur Schopenhauer: From History to Nirvana," AD White 110, 4:30pm

Tuesday, 11/10, Thomas Balcerski, "Governing Men: Captain Thomas Melville and the 'Worn-out' Sailors of Snug Harbor," 145 McGraw, 5:00pm

Wednesday, November 11, Fredrik Logevall book signing, "America's Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity," Cornell Store Book Department, 4:30pm-6:00pm

News (see all news...)

Barry Strauss has published "Sparta's Maritime Moment".....

Michael Kammen has published "Reflections on European History and Memory in Exile"...

Vicki Caron has published "Catholic Political Mobilization and Antisemitic Violence in Fin de Siecle France: The Case of the Union Nationale"...

Eric Tagliacozzo is co-editor of "Clio/Anthropos: Exploring the Boundaries Between History and Anthropology"...

Barton Myers has just published "Executing Daniel Bright: Race, Loyalty, and Guerrilla Violence in a Coastal Carolina Community 1861-1865"...

Barry Strauss to appear on the History Channel's Clash of the Gods 9/21 and 9/28......

Margaret Washington has been awarded the Letitia Woods Brown prize...

Steve Kaplan has recently been awarded two prizes...

History News Network lists Holly Case in its feature on "Top Young Historians" (see more)

"Southeast Asia and the Middle East: Islam, Movement, and the Longue Duree", edited by Eric Tagliacozzo.

Michael Kammen, New York Historical Society exhibition....

Fred Logevall named Director of Cornell's Einaudi Center beginning January 2010.....

Joel Silbey's new book announced, "Party Over Section: The Rough and Ready Presidential Election of 1848"...

Second edition of Peter Dear's "Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and its Ambitions, 1500-1700" announced...

A festschrift has been published in honor of John Najemy...

Derek Chang receives the Robert Paul Advising Award in the Arts and Sciences College...

 

Student Awards and Job Announcements