Developing a picture of France
Catherine Clark uses visual imagery to delve into French history, culture, and society.
Posted February 12, 2021
Catherine Clark uses visual imagery to delve into French history, culture, and society.
Posted February 12, 2021
Lerna Ekmekcioglu investigates how Armenians recovered their identity within these drastically changing political conditions.
Posted February 11, 2021
Feruza Aripova will be joining us for the Spring '21 term as a Russian History lecturer
Posted January 22, 2021
Posted January 20, 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
The following subjects are new to the History curriculum and are being offered for the first time this spring.
Posted December 22, 2020
Building a historical meal from scratch is a perfect reflection of McCants’ methods as an economic historian.
Posted December 1, 2020
Posted November 19, 2020
The annual Jonathan Hughes Prize recognizes excellence in teaching economic history both at the undergraduate and graduate level.
Posted October 23, 2020
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
Planet Money Podcast hosts, Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi and Keith Romer, discuss the silver lining associated with the plague.
Posted September 21, 2020
History section head interviewed in this morning’s NPR story on the Pemberton pardon and US-Philippine relations.
Posted September 11, 2020
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
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
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 re-examines the Green Uprisings of 2009 as a "failed revolution".
Posted August 24, 2020
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
Studying science has made her a better historian, Minsky says, and studying history has made her a better scientist.
Posted April 17, 2020
Notes from a historian, and director of the MIT Concourse Program, for her students and others
Posted April 17, 2020