News 09/19/2025 Honoring Academic Excellence: Boğaç Ergene, University Scholar, 2025 Today, the UVM History Department is elated to share in the celebration of Professor Boğaç Ergene, as he is inducted as a UVM University Scholar!... 07/29/2025 History in Action: A Conversation with Professor Felicia Kornbluh Throughout her career, Felicia Kornbluh, Ph.D., has shown a knack for illuminating the present through the lens of the past, and that ability has... 05/05/2025 CAS Class of 2025 Senior Spotlights The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) is the largest, most diverse college at UVM. It makes sense, then, that the CAS Class of 2025 boasts a student... 04/21/2025 From Labs to Libraries In UVM’s College of Arts and Sciences, student research is a cornerstone of the liberal arts experience. Students are encouraged to build their... 12/12/2024 Charlie Briggs by the numbers History programs are integral to every academic curriculum. The better future that students and scholars aim to construct while at university is... 12/10/2024 History Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Pamela Walker When you think about the American Civil Rights movement, a few names likely come to mind: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Rosa Parks... 12/05/2024 Historic Preservation Professor Thomas Visser Recognized with National Award Earlier this fall, Thomas Visser, UVM History Department professor and former long-time director of the Historic Preservation Program, was awarded... 12/03/2024 Switching Gears February 2025 Update: CAS has launched a new program called Tr.A.C.E (Transfer, Accelerate, Complete, Engage). Designed and coordinated by CAS... 10/31/2024 New Faculty: Devin Colman, Historic Preservation Program Imagine UVM’s University Green without Old Mill, Waterman, or Billings Library; it would have a completely different feel. Old buildings like these... 04/16/2024 Coming Clean In the introduction to his new book, A History of Hygiene in Modern France: The Threshold of Disgust (Bloomsbury; April 2024), Steve Zdatny, Ph.D.,... 04/15/2024 Beyond the Books Have an inquisitive mind? Then chances are you would (or already do) feel right at home in UVM’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS). Here, everyone... 03/25/2024 A World of Experience In UVM’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), more and more faculty members view their classrooms as being without walls—or borders. They see... 03/05/2024 The Class That Changed My Life There are moments in everyone’s life that have the potential to change everything. For the UVM College of Arts and Sciences alums (and one... 02/13/2024 Writing the Next Chapter for the Humanities Students of the humanities, the study of human culture, have long appreciated the rich rewards of pursuing such a degree. Although statistics point... 10/17/2022 New Book Highlights Collaboration Amongst Scholars On Wednesday October 5 the UVM History Department along with Silver Special Collections and the Humanities Center sponsored a talk by renowned French... 02/11/2022 New Book Traces Male Beauty October 2022 update: We are excited to announce that Professor Deslandes, now an Associate Dean for the College of Arts and Sciences, has been... 10/25/2021 Race, Regulation, and Guns: The Latest Battleground in the Debate Over the Second Amendment On Monday, October 11 the UVM History department hosted the inaugural Histories of the Present: The David Haber and Robin Edelman Annual Lecture.... 09/10/2021 A Conversation on 9-11 Twenty years ago, a new history professorwas just getting their bearingson campus at the University of Vermont and teaching one of their... 04/22/2021 Deep Dive into Green Mountain History In the Allen family, Ethan is the headliner. True, younger brother Ira has a firm hold on his place in the University of Vermont’s founding and,... 02/20/2020 The Past and Future of Women's Suffrage On February 19 in Waterman’s Memorial Lounge, five speakers presented a look back at Congress’ passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution... 11/06/2019 Professor of History Erik Esselstrom Presents Full Professor Lecture November 20 Professor of History Esselstrom will explore Japanese responses to the development of Chinese nuclear weapons in his full Professor Lecture "In the... 10/31/2019 Medieval Manuscripts in UVM Silver Collection Primary Sources for History Seminar Some of the textbooks in the “History of the Book” seminar can’t be purchased at the UVM bookstore or checked out from the open stacks of the... 10/31/2019 UVM Faculty Break Down Brexit October 31 marks the day lawmakers in the United Kingdom (UK) were supposed to have wrapped up Brexit negotiations and formally exited the European... 10/15/2019 World War II Reconsidered The cover of Andrew Buchanan’s new book World War II in Global Perspective, 1931-1953: A Short History (Wiley) features a photograph of Indian... 09/06/2019 Timothy Breen to Deliver Marsh Professor Lecture September 17 American colonial historian Timothy H. Breen, a James Marsh Professor-at-Large at UVM since 2012, presents the 2019 Marsh Professor Lecture...
