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How the US Could Really Help Haiti by Professor Malick Ghachem

Foreign involvement is inevitable, but the mistakes of the past can be avoided.

2021 History Undergraduate Writing Prize Winners Announced

The History Faculty is pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 History Undergraduate Writing Prizes, honoring excellence in historical research and writing.

Posted June 11, 2021

3 Questions with historian Caley Horan on innovation, risk-sharing, and cultural transformation

Horan recently about her book manuscript, Insurance Era, (now published, University of Chicago Press, 2021) which explores the cultural life of insurance and the role of risk-based thinking in shaping American institutions and daily life during the second half of the 20th century.

Anne McCants awarded the Ann Fetter Friedlaender Professorship

Anne begins her professorship on July 1, 2021.

Posted June 8, 2021

Malick Ghachem has been honored with a 2021 Teaching with Digital Technology Award

The Teaching with Digital Technology Awards are student-nominated awards given annually to instructors who have effectively used digital technology to improve teaching and learning at MIT.

MIT Faculty Share Learnings from Teaching Online in the Midst of a Pandemic

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.

Campaign grows to name Navy warship after Medal of Honor recipient of Asian and Filipino descent

MIT History professor Christopher Capozzola speaks with Bob DeCastro of Good Day LA about the campaign to name a U.S. Navy Warship after Fireman 2nd Class Telesforo Trinidad, the only American national of Asian and Filipino descent to have received a Congressional Medal of Honor.

A searching discussion about being Asian American at MIT

MIT History faculty take part in panel that explores the complexities of Asian American identity and recognition, at the Institute and in higher education.

3 Questions: Nadia Christidi on the arts and the future of water

The PhD student focuses on three cities and the role of the arts in helping planning institutions to imagine and plan for possible futures.

Going for the Green and the Gold

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.

Listen on Ugrad Podcasts

Posted May 24, 2021

For the pandemic, MIT History opens a course to the public via a free, live webinar format.

Hundreds worldwide joined MIT students in the “History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics“ edition.

MIT News

Posted April 14, 2021

Emma Teng on anti-Asian American violence in the US

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.

MIT News

Posted April 5, 2021

A Letter from the History Faculty on Violence against Asians and Asian Americans

Posted March 30, 2021

A Letter from President Reif: Supporting our Asian community in a difficult time

MIT’s president writes to the community following the tragedies in Georgia and surging anti-Asian violence.

Posted March 25, 2021

Mark Aidinoff, PhD Candidate: The history of using computers to distribute relief checks

Aidinoff writes, "Since the New Deal, policymakers have maintained faith in the federal government’s technical ability to sort out who is and is not deserving of public support."

Washington Post

Posted March 18, 2021

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