Examining the past. Documenting the present. Informing the future.
The Department of History produces world-class scholarship, contributes to meaningful public discourse, and educates students across all UConn campuses.
Department Highlights
Recent News
Announcement: Fall 2026 Draper Research Workshop
The University of Connecticut History Department is pleased to announce that the Fall 2026 Draper Research Workshop will take place on November 16th, from 4:30 – 6:00 PM, with a reception to follow. The event will focus on the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, and will feature a panel discussion from visiting professors Maya […]
[Read More]Three-Minute Thesis Competition
Congratulations to Lincoln Hirn and Daniela Domínguez Tavares for competing in the Three-Minute Thesis Competition this year! Both participants made it to the final round. Lincoln Hirn’s presentation was titled “Worthy to be Counted”: The Postbellum Slave Narrative, 1865-1915. Daniela Domínguez Tavares was the Runner-up in the “Arts, Humanities, and Social Science Ph.D” category with […]
[Read More]Dept Head Mark Healey Receives Academic Leadership Award
The annual CLAS Faculty and Staff Awards recognize outstanding achievement across several categories. The Academic Leadership Award honors exemplary leadership by an individual who oversees a CLAS department, school, center, institute, or program. At this year’s CLAS Faculty and Staff Awards, Department Head Mark Healey was recognized for his leadership in strengthening departmental climate, transparency, and academic […]
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Research and Scholarship
Our faculty are nationally-recognized scholars with expertise that covers a wide range of time periods, geographic regions, and fields of history.
Recent Faculty Publications
The First Right: Self-Determination and the Transformation of International Order, 1941-2000
Bradley Simpson, Author Oxford University Press, 2025 In The First Right, Brad Simpson narrates the global history of the idea of self-determination in international politics from the 1940s through the end of the twentieth century. He argues that there was no one version of self-determination, but a century-long contest between contending visions of sovereignty and rights. He shows that […]
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The First Fascist
Sergio Luzzatto Harvard University Press, 2026 (US); Penguin Books, 2026 (UK) A vivid biography of the nineteenth-century French-Italian aristocrat Marquis de Morès, the first political leader to master the blend of racialized hatred, cross-class solidarity, and paramilitary violence that Benito Mussolini would call “fascism.”
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An Eoraip: Gaelic Ireland in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
The chapters in this volume examine the many and various ways that Gaelic Ireland was integrated into the broader, European world, focusing on literature and learning; real-world politics, economics, and travel; and questions of identity.
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Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age
Princeton University Press, 2025
Manisha Sinha wrote the forward of a new edition of Sylvia Frey’s classic Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age published by Princeton University Press in July 2025.
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