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...

Thursday, February 4, Aaron Law, "Poland's Playground: Colonial Justifications, Expansive Aspirations, and Corporate Models for Security in Interwar Poland, 1930-1939," 4:30pm, AD White 110

CANCELED...Monday, February 8, East Europeanist Circle: John Connelly (Berkeley), "Catholics, anti-Racism and Mission to the Jews, 1933-65," 4:30pm, 365 McGraw Hall

Tuesday, February 9, Maeve Kane, "A Fancy and Genius for Inventing New Fashions: The Archeology of Seneca Clothing," 4:30pm, McGraw 215

Thursday, February 11, Claudia Verhoeven, "Time of Terror, Terror of Time: On the Impatience of Russian Revolutionary Terrorism," Brown Bag, 12:15pm, G08 Uris

 

News (see all news...)

Mary Beth Norton to co-teach new course on exploring land, sea and space with Prof. Steven Squyres...

Dominick LaCapra has recently published History and Its Limits: Human, Animal, Violence.....

Barry Strauss's The Spartacus War was named one of the favorite books of 2009 by Books & Culture (http://www.christianitytoday.
com/bc/columns/bookoftheweek/
favoritebooksof2009.html?start=2.)

Raymond Craib has recently published two essays.....

Robert Travers recently published three essays......

Fred Logevall is co-author of "America's Cold War".....

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