Professor Craig S. Wilder has been sharing his expertise as an advisor to the new PBS documentary series, that will air on PBS stations Sunday evening, September 18th.
Posted September 14, 2022
Posted August 2, 2022
History class led by Associate Professor Sana Aiyar delves into South Asian experience at MIT via oral histories and the Institute Archives/Distinctive Collections
Posted April 14, 2022
This new book by Professor Padilla traces the history of the rural normales, showing how they became sites of radical politics.
Posted January 18, 2022
HASTS PhD student Rijul Kochhar tracks changing medical and microbial realities, and examines what they portend for society.
Posted December 20, 2021
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States in early 2020, it was clear that higher education needed to shift how it operated in both the short and long term.
Posted June 7, 2021
The undergraduates of 21H.187, US Environmental Governance: From National Parks to the Green New Deal, took on podcast assignments to tackle pressing issues in the present with much longer histories.
Posted May 24, 2021
A leading scholar of cross-cultural identity, social assimilation, and exclusion, MIT historian Emma Teng recently spoke with MIT News about the current crisis of violence against Asian-Americans.
Posted April 5, 2021
Catherine Clark uses visual imagery to delve into French history, culture, and society.
Posted February 12, 2021
MIT history professor Chris Capozzola explains why he thinks removing President Trump by invoking the 25th Amendment would be “difficult.”
Posted January 7, 2021
