The Historian

History lecturer Anthony Adler presented a paper titled “Afterlives of Interspecies Collisions: Giant Squid and Knowledge of the Sea” at the International Congress of History of Science and Technology, held…

Susannah Ottaway ’89, Laird Bell Professor of History, published an article titled, “The Purposeful Workhouse of England’s Old Poor Law” in the journal Past & Present; it is now out in…

Prof. Zabin has been selected to be a part of the Organization of American Historians’ (OAH) Lectureship Program. Check out this year’s cohort of speakers.

Prof. Zabin’s recorded lecture from the Huntington this past May. Check it out!

Professor Adeeb Khalid was the guest lecturer for the 2025 Astor Lecture at Worcester College, Oxford, on Friday, May 23rd. Prof. Khalid spoke about Radical Muslims: Anticolonial Solidarities Across Muslim…

Prof. Serena Zabin, discusses the life of Mary Fish, who composed an essay called “A Portrait of a Good Husband,” which described her marriages, her widowhoods, and the epic crises…

Susannah Ottaway, Laird Bell Professor of History, presented a paper titled, “Failure to Reform: The Lessons of Early Efforts to Legislate on Workhouses,” and chaired a session on “Charity and…

Amna Khalid and Jeff Snyder delivered an invited talk at Colorado Mountain College titled, “Care, Critical Thinking and Citizenship: Reflections on Colorado Mountain College’s Mission and the Purpose of Higher Education,”…

History Professor Amna Khalid was invited to speak on a panel titled “Civil Liberty On Campus” at the New York Historical Society’s Weekend With History event on April 26. 

Bob Bonner passed away on April 16. A celebration of Bob’s life will take place at 1:00 pm on Thursday, April 24, 2025, at First United Church of Christ in Northfield,…