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History
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Recent News
For the Love of History
U-M History Alums and Students Connect at Undergraduate Banquet and Career Roundtables
Historical Relics Returned to Uganda
Derek Peterson is working with museums in Cambridge and Kampala to help recover Africa’s lost cultural heritage
What Is U-M History?
Global, multidimensional, interdisciplinary. Regularly ranked among the top history departments in the nation, we combine state-of-the-art research with innovative teaching and a commitment to embrace all the diversity of the past. Whether you want to learn about your own community or some distant time and place, U-M history faculty can help you deepen your knowledge and enhance your skills, as they encourage you to look beneath the surface and think about not just what is said, but what has been left silent.
Why study history? History helps us place the past in context and gain a better understanding of the contingency of the present and the possibilities for the future.
Come explore our website and see how U-M History engages complexity and change in both the present and the past.
Affiliated Institutes
Events
Jan
16
EIHS Lecture: Between Home and Exile: Binational Living and Longing at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Larisa L. Veloz (University of Texas El Paso)
4:00 PM
1014
Tisch Hall
Jan
17
EIHS Workshop: Challenging Gender in Labor and Migration
Amelia Burke, Cassandra Euphrat Weston, Daniel Jin, David Tamayo (moderator)
12:00 PM
1014
Tisch Hall
Jan
17
Multi
Valerie Traub Retirement Conference - Knowledge Relations: A Conference on Historical Epistemologies, Emerging Methodologies, Contemporary Practices
in celebration of Valerie Traub
1:00 PM
Pendleton Room
Michigan Union
Jan
30
EIHS Lecture: Divergent Connections: Participating in the Indian Ocean World from East Africa’s Interior, ca. 1000-1800
David Bresnahan (University of Utah)
4:00 PM
1014
Tisch Hall
Jan
31
EIHS Workshop: Home and Exile: Reframing Global Connections and Encounters
Nicole Allora, Christopher DeCou, Allen Kendall, Inhae Yap, Derek Peterson (moderator)
12:00 PM
1014
Tisch Hall
Feb
27
EIHS Lecture: Beyond Affirmative Action: What Roman Identity Politics Can Teach the US
Nandini Pandey (Johns Hopkins University)
4:00 PM
1014
Tisch Hall
