Anne McCants wins the Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching Economic History
The annual Jonathan Hughes Prize recognizes excellence in teaching economic history both at the undergraduate and graduate level.
Posted October 23, 2020
News
Driving While Black…Race, Space and Mobility in America
Watch MIT Historian Craig Wilder and others in the new PBS Documentary that examines African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights. Streaming now on PBS.
Posted October 19, 2020
History Professor, Anne McCants, joins Plague discussion on NPR Podcast
Planet Money Podcast hosts, Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi and Keith Romer, discuss the silver lining associated with the plague.
Posted September 21, 2020
History’s Christopher Capozzola Interviewed on NPR
History section head interviewed in this morning’s NPR story on the Pemberton pardon and US-Philippine relations.
Posted September 11, 2020
Lerna Ekmekçioğlu’s Twelve Faces of Armenian Feminism
As a CAST Mellon Faculty Fellow, McMillan-Stewart Associate Professor of History Lerna Ekmekçioğlu is creating a virtual exhibition and digital archive.
Posted September 10, 2020
The Meanings of Masks
History faculty, and other MIT SHASS Professors, share the Meaning of Masks in their fields of study.
Posted September 10, 2020
Posted August 24, 2020
Professor Malick Ghachem receives Digital Technology Award
This is a student-nominated award for instructors who have effectively used digital technology to improve teaching and learning at MIT.
Posted August 24, 2020
Pouya Alimagham’s book, Contesting the Iranian Revolution: The Green Uprisings
Pouya Alimagham re-examines the Green Uprisings of 2009 as a "failed revolution".
Posted August 24, 2020
Professor Catherine E. Clark awarded Laurence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies
Professor Clark's has been awarded for her book, Paris and the Cliché of History: The City and Photographs, 1860-1970.
Posted June 23, 2020
Charlotte Minsky ’20
Studying science has made her a better historian, Minsky says, and studying history has made her a better scientist.
Posted April 17, 2020
Reflections: Anne McCants
Notes from a historian, and director of the MIT Concourse Program, for her students and others
Posted April 17, 2020
Posted March 31, 2020
Three Questions with historian Kenda Mutongi
On Africa, women, power — and human decency
Posted January 15, 2020
How to Stage a Revolution
MIT History class explores the roots and complexities of revolutions across the globe.
Posted January 6, 2020
Lerna Ekmekçioğlu
Armenian Genocide Descendants Face Another Turkish Onslaught, One Century Later
Posted December 11, 2019
Bringing figures in anticolonial politics out of the shadows
MIT historian Sana Aiyar sheds new light on the complexities of independence movements and global migration.
Posted December 11, 2019
Catherine Clark
Interview with Catherine Clark, the author of Paris and the Cliché of History: The City in Photographs, 1860-1970 (Oxford University Press, 2018).
Posted October 21, 2019
Three Questions for Historian Elizabeth Wood on election interference
How do we understand Russia’s multi-layered interference in the 2016 elections? A Russia expert and professor of history analyzes Russia’s motives.
Posted October 17, 2019
Kenda Mutongi Named Finalist for Elliott P. Skinner Award
Kenda Mutongi, Member (2004–05) in the School of Social Science, has been named a finalist for the 2018 Elliott P. Skinner Book Award, for Matatu: A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi (University of Chicago Press, 2017).
Posted February 14, 2019
