Anne Balay lectures at 4 p.m. for this special Monday Brown Bag as part of Women's History Month. Long-haul trucking is linked to almost every industry in America, yet somehow the working-class drivers behind big rigs remain largely hidden from public view. Gritty, inspiring, and often devastating oral histories of gay, transsexual, and minority truck […]

It's hard to believe that we'll need to start thinking about Summer and Fall 2019 courses, huh? It's true, though! Summer and Fall academic advising will officially begin immediately after spring break. Let's celebrate advising season together, the best way we know how: with cupcakes. Join us on Tuesday, March 19 from 3:30-5PM in Bishop […]

As part of a campus wide commemoration of the 400th year of the arrival of the first Africans in British North America coordinated by the UM slavery research group, we will examine the emergence of racially defined slavery in the Atlantic World and how it was challenged from the Age of Exploration through the Napoleonic […]

History majors and minors are warmly invited to our first annual Spring BBQ, which will take place on Thursday, April 24 from 4-6PM on the Bishop Hall Lawn between Bishop Hall and Martindale Hall. There’ll be cornhole and BBQ on offer, as well as free swag for history majors, and we’ll be inducting our new […]

Graduating history majors and their families are warmly invited to join the Arch Dalrymple III Department of History as we celebrate 2019 commencement with a gelatto and sparkling cider send-off on the Bishop Hall Terrace on Friday, May 10 from 2:30-4:30PM.