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Recent News
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Professor Micki McElya’s “Liberation Summer” is well received in NYT book review
Reviewer Katie Roiphe calls the book a “lively, stylish social history” and remarks on the fact that the book faces the “divisions and power struggles at the heart of the women’s liberation movement”…
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UConn Today Article “Curating the 250th: History Professors Mark Country’s Anniversary with Museum Exhibitions” features Professors Sinha and Horowitz
Manisha Sinha curated the “The Second American Revolution” exhibition at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, and Andy Horowitz was part of the team behind the “Connecticut’s Revolution” exhibit at the Museum of…
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For Your Health and Ours: An Eastern European History of Global Health
Sara Silverstein Oxford University Press, 2026 In For Your Health and Ours: An Eastern European History of Global Health, Sara Silverstein uses new research and material in six languages from seven countries…
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Connecticut State Historian Andy Horowitz presents talk “Why Connecticut 250 Matters” at New Haven Museum’s new exhibition, “New Haven’s Unfinished Revolutions”
The immersive exhibit features some innovative tech that museum goers can use to interact with primary sources to get glimpses into the lives of people that were central to (but…
Upcoming Events
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Oct14Fellow’s Talk: Chloe Kwak on Memories of ‘Comfort Women’ in Korean American CommunitiesHomer Babbidge Library3:30 PM
A talk by UCHI Draper Dissertation Fellow Chloe Kwak on “Diasporic Group Subjectivity: Distinct Group Identities and Memories of ‘Comfort Women’ in Korean American Communities” with a response by Emma Amador.
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Oct14Alumni Successes: Undergraduate Fellows after UCHIHomer Babbidge Library6:00 PM
A panel of former Humanities Undergraduate Research Fellows share their post-fellowship and post-graduation experiences and achievements. Part of our UCHI at 25 celebration, in recognition of the undergraduate fellowship entering its fifth year.
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Oct15Branching Out: The Public History of TreesHomer Babbidge Library12:30 PM
As part of the Humanities Institute’s Environmental Humanities Initiative, Leah Glaser (History, Central Connecticut State) will discuss the role trees can play in public history.
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Our faculty are nationally recognized scholars with expertise that covers a wide range of time periods, geographic regions, and fields of history.
For Your Health and Ours
Oxford University Press, 2026
Sara Silverstein uses new research and material in six languages from seven countries and 27 archives to describe a history of global health that decenters imperial influences and emphasizes the initiatives of people on the political peripheries, including the Global South.
Available Oct. 2026
Liberation Summer
Simon & Schuster, 2026
A sweeping, definitive work of history exploring the road to the September 1968 protests of the Miss America Pageant — one led by women’s liberationist and the other organized by the emergent Miss Black American Pageant — and the birth of a new politics of beauty. Liberation Summer proves how the battle for beauty’s meaning has always been political and its enduring impact on our politics today.
The First Right: Self-Determination and the Transformation of International Order, 1941-2000
Oxford University Press, 2025
The First Right argues that there was no one self-determination, but a century-long contest between contending visions of sovereignty and rights that were as varied and changing as the nature of sovereignty itself.
An Eoraip: Gaelic Ireland in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Brill, 2025
Medieval and early modern Irish scholars thought of themselves as Europeans. The chapters in this volume examine the many and various ways that Gaelic Ireland was integrated into the broader, European world, focusing on literature and learning; real-world politics, economics, and travel; and questions of identity.