Department of History

Why is it So Hard to Vote in America? Are you voting in November? Are you sure? Many people think that going to the polls is all that's needed to vote. UF Political Science Professor Richard Scher disagrees. Drawing from his award-winning new book, The Politics of Disenfranchisement, Scher discusses the tradition of restricting or denying voting rights to large numbers of Americans. Scher will engage his audience in a conversation on historical voting barriers, like literacy tests and poll…

Why is it So Hard to Vote in America? Are you voting in November? Are you sure? Many people think that going to the polls is all that's needed to vote. UF Political Science Professor Richard Scher disagrees. Drawing from his award-winning new book, The Politics of Disenfranchisement, Scher discusses the tradition of restricting or denying voting rights to large numbers of Americans. Scher will engage his audience in a conversation on historical voting barriers, like literacy tests and poll…

Why is it So Hard to Vote in America? Are you voting in November? Are you sure? Many people think that going to the polls is all that's needed to vote. UF Political Science Professor Richard Scher disagrees. Drawing from his award-winning new book, The Politics of Disenfranchisement, Scher discusses the tradition of restricting or denying voting rights to large numbers of Americans. Scher will engage his audience in a conversation on historical voting barriers, like literacy tests and poll…

The Bob Graham Center Public Service Council at the University of Florida will host a Voters’ Issues Conference from 6 to 8 p.m. on Oct.17 in Pugh Hall’s room 170. The event is free and open to the public. Former Gainesville mayor Peegen Hanrahan will serve as the keynote speaker for the event. She will give preliminary remarks on the issues facing the nation this election and will discuss the importance of casting a ballot in Florida. Following the keynote presentation, participants are invited to attend a series of break-out sessions…

The Bob Graham Center Public Service Council at the University of Florida will host a Voters’ Issues Conference from 6 to 8 p.m. on Oct.17 in Pugh Hall’s room 170. The event is free and open to the public. Former Gainesville mayor Peegen Hanrahan will serve as the keynote speaker for the event. She will give preliminary remarks on the issues facing the nation this election and will discuss the importance of casting a ballot in Florida. Following the keynote presentation, participants are invited to attend a series of break-out sessions…

The Bob Graham Center Public Service Council at the University of Florida will host a Voters’ Issues Conference from 6 to 8 p.m. on Oct.17 in Pugh Hall’s room 170. The event is free and open to the public. Former Gainesville mayor Peegen Hanrahan will serve as the keynote speaker for the event. She will give preliminary remarks on the issues facing the nation this election and will discuss the importance of casting a ballot in Florida. Following the keynote presentation, participants are invited to attend a series of break-out sessions…

Please join Dr. Larry Rivers, President of Fort Valley State University, as speaks about "Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in 19th Century Florida." Sponsored by the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program.

Please join Dr. Larry Rivers, President of Fort Valley State University, as speaks about "Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in 19th Century Florida." Sponsored by the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program.

Please join Dr. Larry Rivers, President of Fort Valley State University, as speaks about "Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in 19th Century Florida." Sponsored by the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program.

Please join us as Professor Luise White speaks on "'Racial representation of the worst sort': Southern Rhodesia's 1957 Franchise Commission, Citizenship, and the Problem of Polygynous Wives"

Please join us as Professor Luise White speaks on "'Racial representation of the worst sort': Southern Rhodesia's 1957 Franchise Commission, Citizenship, and the Problem of Polygynous Wives"

Please join us as Professor Luise White speaks on "'Racial representation of the worst sort': Southern Rhodesia's 1957 Franchise Commission, Citizenship, and the Problem of Polygynous Wives"

Please join us for a panel discussion on the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Morrill Act.

Please join us for a panel discussion on the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Morrill Act.

Please join us for a panel discussion on the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Morrill Act.

Please join Lawrence Clayton, Professor of History at the University of Alabama, as he speaks on "The Making of the Quintessential Outsider: Bartolome de las Casas and Early Spanish America." The event is sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies, the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, the Department of Religion, the Department of History, and the Latin American Collection of Smathers Library.

Please join Lawrence Clayton, Professor of History at the University of Alabama, as he speaks on "The Making of the Quintessential Outsider: Bartolome de las Casas and Early Spanish America." The event is sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies, the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, the Department of Religion, the Department of History, and the Latin American Collection of Smathers Library.

Please join Lawrence Clayton, Professor of History at the University of Alabama, as he speaks on "The Making of the Quintessential Outsider: Bartolome de las Casas and Early Spanish America." The event is sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies, the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, the Department of Religion, the Department of History, and the Latin American Collection of Smathers Library.

Please join us for the annual Alexander Grass Chair Endowed Lecture, presented this year by Professor Miri Rubin of Queen Mary University of London, where she currently serves as the Head of the School of History.

Please join us for the annual Alexander Grass Chair Endowed Lecture, presented this year by Professor Miri Rubin of Queen Mary University of London, where she currently serves as the Head of the School of History.

Please join us for the annual Alexander Grass Chair Endowed Lecture, presented this year by Professor Miri Rubin of Queen Mary University of London, where she currently serves as the Head of the School of History.

The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program (SPOHP) is delighted to present Dr. Alan Rosen, who will speak about his new book, The Wonder of Their Voices: The 1946 Holocaust Interviews of David Boder. For more information, please visit the SPOHP web page.

The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program (SPOHP) is delighted to present Dr. Alan Rosen, who will speak about his new book, The Wonder of Their Voices: The 1946 Holocaust Interviews of David Boder. For more information, please visit the SPOHP web page.

The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program (SPOHP) is delighted to present Dr. Alan Rosen, who will speak about his new book, The Wonder of Their Voices: The 1946 Holocaust Interviews of David Boder. For more information, please visit the SPOHP web page.

Please join us for our next installment in the Pozzetta Colloquium, as Professor J. Matthew Gallman speaks on "'A Worthy Man as I Believe': Abraham Lincoln Contemplates Citizenship in Wartime"

Please join us for our next installment in the Pozzetta Colloquium, as Professor J. Matthew Gallman speaks on "'A Worthy Man as I Believe': Abraham Lincoln Contemplates Citizenship in Wartime"

Please join us for our next installment in the Pozzetta Colloquium, as Professor J. Matthew Gallman speaks on "'A Worthy Man as I Believe': Abraham Lincoln Contemplates Citizenship in Wartime"

Please join Winson Chu of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and author of The German Minority in Interwar Poland as he speaks on "Judaization, Europeanization, or Germanization? Lodz and the Politics of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Poland."

Please join Winson Chu of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and author of The German Minority in Interwar Poland as he speaks on "Judaization, Europeanization, or Germanization? Lodz and the Politics of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Poland."

Please join Winson Chu of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and author of The German Minority in Interwar Poland as he speaks on "Judaization, Europeanization, or Germanization? Lodz and the Politics of the Holocaust in Postcommunist Poland."

On Friday, February 22 and Saturday, February 23, 2013, the Milbauer Program in Southern History will host a conference commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. This conference is entitled “The Shadow of Slavery: Emancipation, Memory, and the Meaning of Freedom.” Scholars from around the country will present original work focusing on the process, meaning, and memory of emancipation in America. The process through which disparate Americans remembered and remember emancipation will provide an overarching theme. This conference is…

On Friday, February 22 and Saturday, February 23, 2013, the Milbauer Program in Southern History will host a conference commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. This conference is entitled “The Shadow of Slavery: Emancipation, Memory, and the Meaning of Freedom.” Scholars from around the country will present original work focusing on the process, meaning, and memory of emancipation in America. The process through which disparate Americans remembered and remember emancipation will provide an overarching theme. This conference is…

On Friday, February 22 and Saturday, February 23, 2013, the Milbauer Program in Southern History will host a conference commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. This conference is entitled “The Shadow of Slavery: Emancipation, Memory, and the Meaning of Freedom.” Scholars from around the country will present original work focusing on the process, meaning, and memory of emancipation in America. The process through which disparate Americans remembered and remember emancipation will provide an overarching theme. This conference is…

Please join us for a talk by ACLS New Faculty Fellow Kirsten Leng, who will speak on "Permutations of the Third Sex: Sexology, Subjectivity and Anti-Maternalist Feminism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century."

Please join us for a talk by ACLS New Faculty Fellow Kirsten Leng, who will speak on "Permutations of the Third Sex: Sexology, Subjectivity and Anti-Maternalist Feminism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century."

Please join us for a talk by ACLS New Faculty Fellow Kirsten Leng, who will speak on "Permutations of the Third Sex: Sexology, Subjectivity and Anti-Maternalist Feminism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century."

Professor Goldberg is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on the history of merchants in the Islamic and Italian eastern Mediterranean of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Recent research interests have led her to study the practical minutiae of how business, manufacturing, and trade worked; ideas and practices of both religious and secular law; and merchants' ideas of region, regional identity and market spaces. She has held fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study…

Professor Goldberg is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on the history of merchants in the Islamic and Italian eastern Mediterranean of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Recent research interests have led her to study the practical minutiae of how business, manufacturing, and trade worked; ideas and practices of both religious and secular law; and merchants' ideas of region, regional identity and market spaces. She has held fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study…

Professor Goldberg is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on the history of merchants in the Islamic and Italian eastern Mediterranean of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Recent research interests have led her to study the practical minutiae of how business, manufacturing, and trade worked; ideas and practices of both religious and secular law; and merchants' ideas of region, regional identity and market spaces. She has held fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study…

There will be a combined service on Friday, 22 March at 3:30 pm to honor the memory of our former colleagues Bertram Wyatt-Brown and Robert Zieger. It will be held at the Baughman Center on the University of Florida campus.

There will be a combined service on Friday, 22 March at 3:30 pm to honor the memory of our former colleagues Bertram Wyatt-Brown and Robert Zieger. It will be held at the Baughman Center on the University of Florida campus.

There will be a combined service on Friday, 22 March at 3:30 pm to honor the memory of our former colleagues Bertram Wyatt-Brown and Robert Zieger. It will be held at the Baughman Center on the University of Florida campus.

Please join Laura Edwards (Duke University) as she speaks on “Women, the Civil War, and the Legal Transformation of the United States. Edwards explores how legal changes that resulted from the Civil War actually unfolded in people’s houses and backyards–and thus involved women, even though they were denied extended federal protection for their civil and political rights. The talk will be held at 5:00 pm on 3 April 2013, in the Ustler Hall Atrium, with a reception to follow.

Please join Laura Edwards (Duke University) as she speaks on “Women, the Civil War, and the Legal Transformation of the United States. Edwards explores how legal changes that resulted from the Civil War actually unfolded in people’s houses and backyards–and thus involved women, even though they were denied extended federal protection for their civil and political rights. The talk will be held at 5:00 pm on 3 April 2013, in the Ustler Hall Atrium, with a reception to follow.

Please join Laura Edwards (Duke University) as she speaks on “Women, the Civil War, and the Legal Transformation of the United States. Edwards explores how legal changes that resulted from the Civil War actually unfolded in people’s houses and backyards–and thus involved women, even though they were denied extended federal protection for their civil and political rights. The talk will be held at 5:00 pm on 3 April 2013, in the Ustler Hall Atrium, with a reception to follow.

The History Department's Fall 2013 Welcome Reception for undergraduates interested in the major will take place on Wednesday, September 18th from 4-5:15 p.m. in the second-floor library of Flint Hall (229). Please join us to learn more about the history major, its research opportunities, study abroad options and career possibilities.  Meet faculty and student officers in the History Honor Society, Phi Alpha Theta.  Refreshments will be served.

The History Department's Fall 2013 Welcome Reception for undergraduates interested in the major will take place on Wednesday, September 18th from 4-5:15 p.m. in the second-floor library of Flint Hall (229). Please join us to learn more about the history major, its research opportunities, study abroad options and career possibilities.  Meet faculty and student officers in the History Honor Society, Phi Alpha Theta.  Refreshments will be served.

The History Department's Fall 2013 Welcome Reception for undergraduates interested in the major will take place on Wednesday, September 18th from 4-5:15 p.m. in the second-floor library of Flint Hall (229). Please join us to learn more about the history major, its research opportunities, study abroad options and career possibilities.  Meet faculty and student officers in the History Honor Society, Phi Alpha Theta.  Refreshments will be served.

 “From Conservation to Environmentalism” 2013 Gus Burns Lecture by William Souder Author William Souder will discuss Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the origins of America's troubled relationship with the natural world. After the talk, he will sign copies of his book On a Farther Shore, the latest biograhy of Rachel Carson, published on the 50th anniversary of Silent Spring. William Sauder is author of On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson (2012) and Under a Wild…

 “From Conservation to Environmentalism” 2013 Gus Burns Lecture by William Souder Author William Souder will discuss Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the origins of America's troubled relationship with the natural world. After the talk, he will sign copies of his book On a Farther Shore, the latest biograhy of Rachel Carson, published on the 50th anniversary of Silent Spring. William Sauder is author of On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson (2012) and Under a Wild…

 “From Conservation to Environmentalism” 2013 Gus Burns Lecture by William Souder Author William Souder will discuss Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the origins of America's troubled relationship with the natural world. After the talk, he will sign copies of his book On a Farther Shore, the latest biograhy of Rachel Carson, published on the 50th anniversary of Silent Spring. William Sauder is author of On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson (2012) and Under a Wild…

Lillian Guerra “Visions of Power in CUBA: Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance, 1959-1971” Monday, October 28, 3:00 p.m., Latin American Collection Reference Room, 4th floor Smathers Library (East) In the tumultuous first decade of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro and other leaders saturated the media with altruistic images of themselves in a campaign to win the hearts of Cuba’s six million citizens. In Visions of Power in Cuba, Lillian Guerra argues that these visual representations explained rapidly occurring events and encouraged…

Lillian Guerra “Visions of Power in CUBA: Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance, 1959-1971” Monday, October 28, 3:00 p.m., Latin American Collection Reference Room, 4th floor Smathers Library (East) In the tumultuous first decade of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro and other leaders saturated the media with altruistic images of themselves in a campaign to win the hearts of Cuba’s six million citizens. In Visions of Power in Cuba, Lillian Guerra argues that these visual representations explained rapidly occurring events and encouraged…

Lillian Guerra “Visions of Power in CUBA: Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance, 1959-1971” Monday, October 28, 3:00 p.m., Latin American Collection Reference Room, 4th floor Smathers Library (East) In the tumultuous first decade of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro and other leaders saturated the media with altruistic images of themselves in a campaign to win the hearts of Cuba’s six million citizens. In Visions of Power in Cuba, Lillian Guerra argues that these visual representations explained rapidly occurring events and encouraged…

“Listening to Heretical Voices: Philostorgius's Vision of History” Anna Lankina, Department of History, 2013-2014 Rothman Doctoral Fellow Rarely do historians have access to the voices of religious minorities. In the later Roman Empire sources pertaining to such “heretical” groups were targeted for systematic destruction. The fifth-century Greek Ecclesiastical History of the Christian “Arian heretic” Philostorgius is an unusual example of a surviving minority source. In this talk, Anna Lankina will not only provide insight into the work of a persecuted…

“Listening to Heretical Voices: Philostorgius's Vision of History” Anna Lankina, Department of History, 2013-2014 Rothman Doctoral Fellow Rarely do historians have access to the voices of religious minorities. In the later Roman Empire sources pertaining to such “heretical” groups were targeted for systematic destruction. The fifth-century Greek Ecclesiastical History of the Christian “Arian heretic” Philostorgius is an unusual example of a surviving minority source. In this talk, Anna Lankina will not only provide insight into the work of a persecuted…

“Listening to Heretical Voices: Philostorgius's Vision of History” Anna Lankina, Department of History, 2013-2014 Rothman Doctoral Fellow Rarely do historians have access to the voices of religious minorities. In the later Roman Empire sources pertaining to such “heretical” groups were targeted for systematic destruction. The fifth-century Greek Ecclesiastical History of the Christian “Arian heretic” Philostorgius is an unusual example of a surviving minority source. In this talk, Anna Lankina will not only provide insight into the work of a persecuted…

Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere/History Department sponsors a lecture by Benjamin Carp (Tufts University) The Boston Tea Party of 1773 is known to every schoolchild, yet it recently found a new place in public debates after the rise of the Tea Party movement in 2009.  This presentation explores the fractured nature of eighteenth-century politics, particularly in Revolutionary Boston.  American reactions to the Boston Tea Party were mixed, and even Benjamin Franklin and George Washington expressed doubts about…

Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere/History Department sponsors a lecture by Benjamin Carp (Tufts University) The Boston Tea Party of 1773 is known to every schoolchild, yet it recently found a new place in public debates after the rise of the Tea Party movement in 2009.  This presentation explores the fractured nature of eighteenth-century politics, particularly in Revolutionary Boston.  American reactions to the Boston Tea Party were mixed, and even Benjamin Franklin and George Washington expressed doubts about…

Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere/History Department sponsors a lecture by Benjamin Carp (Tufts University) The Boston Tea Party of 1773 is known to every schoolchild, yet it recently found a new place in public debates after the rise of the Tea Party movement in 2009.  This presentation explores the fractured nature of eighteenth-century politics, particularly in Revolutionary Boston.  American reactions to the Boston Tea Party were mixed, and even Benjamin Franklin and George Washington expressed doubts about…

John Thornton, Professor of African American Studies and History at Boston University,  specializes in African and Atlantic History and is a co-author of “Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles,and the Foundation of the Americas" and "Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World."

John Thornton, Professor of African American Studies and History at Boston University,  specializes in African and Atlantic History and is a co-author of “Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles,and the Foundation of the Americas" and "Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World."

John Thornton, Professor of African American Studies and History at Boston University,  specializes in African and Atlantic History and is a co-author of “Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles,and the Foundation of the Americas" and "Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World."

Pozzetta Lecture: Jon Sensbach The Art of Liberation: Camille Pissarro and Free Women of the Caribbean

Pozzetta Lecture: Jon Sensbach The Art of Liberation: Camille Pissarro and Free Women of the Caribbean

Pozzetta Lecture: Jon Sensbach The Art of Liberation: Camille Pissarro and Free Women of the Caribbean

Fifth Annual History Honors Conference & Awards Luncheon Pugh Hall on the University of Florida Campus April 12, 2014 Schedule of Panels Morning Sessions Social, Intellectual, & Religious Currents in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (9:00-10:00) Chair: Prof. Florin Curta Rachel Walkover: Reality within the Fantasy: the Romances of Chrétien de Troyes Holly Soltis: The Strong One & the Bright One: Power and Presence of Melisende of Jerusalem & Eleanor of Aquitaine in the Twelfth Century Carrie Oehler: “Plucking Flowers…

Fifth Annual History Honors Conference & Awards Luncheon Pugh Hall on the University of Florida Campus April 12, 2014 Schedule of Panels Morning Sessions Social, Intellectual, & Religious Currents in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (9:00-10:00) Chair: Prof. Florin Curta Rachel Walkover: Reality within the Fantasy: the Romances of Chrétien de Troyes Holly Soltis: The Strong One & the Bright One: Power and Presence of Melisende of Jerusalem & Eleanor of Aquitaine in the Twelfth Century Carrie Oehler: “Plucking Flowers…

Fifth Annual History Honors Conference & Awards Luncheon Pugh Hall on the University of Florida Campus April 12, 2014 Schedule of Panels Morning Sessions Social, Intellectual, & Religious Currents in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (9:00-10:00) Chair: Prof. Florin Curta Rachel Walkover: Reality within the Fantasy: the Romances of Chrétien de Troyes Holly Soltis: The Strong One & the Bright One: Power and Presence of Melisende of Jerusalem & Eleanor of Aquitaine in the Twelfth Century Carrie Oehler: “Plucking Flowers…

The History Department is pleased to announce the first of  the 2014-15 George E. Pozzetta Lectures.  Dr. Michelle Campos, Associate Professor of History, will present on "Urban History in the Digital Age: Mapping Intercommunal Relations and Social Networks in Late Ottoman Jerusalem," on Thursday, 31 October 2014 at 4 p.m. in the History Department's Conference Room, 005 Keene-Flint Hall.