Military training has existed at MIT since 1865, with more than 12,000 officers commissioned from the Institute. Today, MIT offers U.S. Air Force, Army, and Naval ROTC programs. In honor of Veterans Day, cadets from all three branches present the flag.
Posted November 10, 2021
Prof. Craig Wilder invites the MIT community to consider the progress and challenges of sustaining the acclaimed MIT & Slavery curricular project.
Posted October 25, 2021
Professor Sana Aiyar, Associate Professor of History and MIT students dig deep into the longstanding connection between the Institute and South Asia.
Posted October 21, 2021
David Shane Lowry, distinguished fellow in Native American studies at History at MIT, provides a new campus space for Native American student groups.
Posted October 20, 2021
Wilder, the Barton L. Weller Professor of History at MIT, joins other leading experts, historians, and writers to provide input on the script and film for the new documentary about Muhammad Ali.
Posted September 23, 2021
PhD student Rodrigo Ochigame designs alternative search engines and seeks to disrupt cultural assumptions in their teaching and research.
Posted August 23, 2021
Professor Christopher Capozzola author of “Bound by War: How the United States and the Philippines Built America’s First Pacific Century” featured in the Washington Post.
Posted August 6, 2021
Back in 1964, there was “a sense of Japan in motion and a sense of a country with a future,” said Nagahara, MIT professor of history. Now, it’s “a country that has lost confidence and a country whose political elites feel very intensely that loss of confidence.”
Posted August 6, 2021
The attack on Jovenel Moïse is just the latest episode in the country's long history of political instability.
Posted August 6, 2021
Foreign involvement is inevitable, but the mistakes of the past can be avoided.
Posted July 12, 2021
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
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.
Posted June 10, 2021
Anne begins her professorship on July 1, 2021.
Posted June 8, 2021
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.
Posted June 7, 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
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.
Posted May 27, 2021
MIT History faculty take part in panel that explores the complexities of Asian American identity and recognition, at the Institute and in higher education.
Posted May 27, 2021
The PhD student focuses on three cities and the role of the arts in helping planning institutions to imagine and plan for possible futures.
Posted May 26, 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
Hundreds worldwide joined MIT students in the “History of Now: Plagues and Pandemics“ edition.
Posted April 14, 2021
