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Lindsay Moynihan Named Merrill Scholar for 2023-24

Lindsay Moynihan, History Major, Named Merrill Scholar for 2023-24

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September 22, 2023 School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, School of Music, American Studies, College of Arts and Humanities, English, The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, History, Douglass Center

Breaking the M.O.L.D. Launches Second Cohort for Leaders of Color and Women in Higher Ed

The Mellon Foundation-funded initiative prepares underrepresented arts and humanities faculty at three Maryland universities for leadership roles.
June 02, 2023 History

Maryland Artist Turns Raskin Bandanas Into Collage

Sonya Michel Historian and Collage Artist
May 22, 2023 History, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Paulina Leder ’23 Named Undergrad Researcher of the Year

The triple major explored filmmaker’s striving for artistic freedom in East Germany.

April 26, 2023 History

History Students Sweep 2023 Undergraduate Research Awards

History Undergraduates Stars on Undergraduate Research Day, April 26
April 12, 2023 History

UMD Presenters Share Research at American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting 2023

UMD faculty and graduate students present their research.
March 30, 2023 History

Jeremy Simmons Wins IAS Fellowship

Jeremy Simmons wins a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study
February 16, 2023 College of Arts and Humanities, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Linguistics, American Studies, Communication, Philosophy, School of Music, English, History, National Foreign Language Center

ARHU Faculty Awarded Grand Challenges Grants

The grants fund $30 million to UMD faculty focused on groundbreaking, impactful research that will shape the future of our community, state, nation and world.
May 19, 2022 History, American Studies

Curating Arts and Culture on Campus

History and American studies double major Marjorie Justine Antonio ’22 programmed multiple exhibitions and events while an undergraduate.

April 21, 2022 History

Department of History Announces Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow

Gerardo Ienna New Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

Are Historians Awol From Public Debate?

January 30, 2011 History

UMD's History Professor Jeffery Herf highlights historians' involvement in current public debates in a Letter to the Editor.

Historians Against (Today'S) Slavery

January 26, 2011 English, History

UMD's Vincent Carretta, professor of English and 2009 Guggenhiem Fellow, joins the new organization "Historians Againist Slavery."
The Diamondback

Upcoming Exhibit Fuses Multiple Artistic Elements To Create Unique Style

January 26, 2011 Art, University of Maryland Art Gallery, English, History

Exhibition Poetic.Aesthetic. at UMD's The Art Gallery blends poetry with visual art.By Julie Baughman, Diamondback
Centerpoint

Wilson Fellow Explores History Of Political Economy, Fairness In America

December 01, 2010 American Studies, History

Scholar Spotlight on Wilson Center Fellow and Associate Professor of History David Freund in Centerpoint .Centerpoint

Herf Awarded Washington Institute Book Prize

October 14, 2010 History

Washington Institute for Near East Policy Awards Herf the bronze book prize for his book Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World.Originally posted: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/28/AR2010012803812....

Louis R. Harlan, 87; Pulitzer-Winning Historian Of Race Relations

January 29, 2010 History

By Matt Schudel, Washington PostPublished Friday, January 29, 2010 Louis R. Harlan, 87, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian at the University of Maryland whose two-volume biography of Booker T. Washington made him one of the nation's foremost...
http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/uniini/release.cfm?ArticleID=2033

Maryland History Professor Researches Nazi-Arab Collaboration During World War Ii

December 01, 2009 History, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies

For Immediate Release December 1, 2009 Contacts: David Ottalini, 301 405 4076 or dottalin@umd.edu By: Lauren Brown, UM NewsdeskCOLLEGE PARK, Md. - After four decades of studying Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, Maryland history Professor Jeffrey...