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Recent News
Reggae and Revolution
Carina Ray joined the department in the fall of 2022 as A.M. and H.P. Bentley Chair in African History and Associate Professor of History. Learn more about the questions that drew her to the field.
A Future in the Past
U-M History announces second annual Undergraduate Banquet and Career Conference
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
19
The Movement Made Us All: Historical Legacies of the Civil Rights Movement and the Current Moment
David Dennis Jr. and David Dennis Sr.
6:00 PM
Helmut Stern Auditorium
Museum of Art
Jan
20
Lessons of Authoritarianism and Democratic Resilience in Latin America: Free Community Film Screening & Discussion
I'm Still Here
Victoria Langland, Department of History, University of Michigan, Ana Guimarães, Department of Romance Languages and Literature
5:30 PM
Off Campus Location
Jan
20
U-M History Film Series: I'm Still Here
Victoria Langland and Ana Guimarães
5:30 PM
Off Campus Location
Jan
29
EIHS Lecture: Fathers and Sons: Empire, Execution, and Partition in a Revolutionary Age, 1776-1816
Gregory Dowd (University of Michigan)
4:00 PM
1014
Tisch Hall
Jan
30
EIHS Symposium: Orders and the Unruly: A Conversation with our Fellows
12:00 PM
1014
Tisch Hall
Feb
12
EIHS Lecture: Labor, Spirit, and Sovereignty: Africa’s Great War
Michelle Moyd (Michigan State University)
4:00 PM
1014
Tisch Hall
HISTORY MATTERS
Explore History Matters, the annual magazine of the U-M History Department. Read the latest issue here.
