Susan J. Pearson, Professor of History at Northwestern, has been awarded the 2022 Book Award by the Order of the Coif Executive Committee, for her 2021 book The Birth Certificate: An American History.
The Order of the Coif …
Historian Kate Masur’s latest book Until Justice Be Done: American’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction has won the American Society for Legal History’s John Phillip Reid Book Prize. The John Phillip Reid Book Prize …
Amy Stanley, Professor of History at Northwestern, has won Taiwan’s 2022 OpenBook Award for her book, Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World.
“It’s the story of a rebellious, discontented woman who sacrificed everything …
Visiting professor of Northwestern’s Environmental Policy and Culture program Wil Burns was recently featured on WBUR’s Here and Now podcast, where he discussed the implications of the United States’ newest climate bill.
Prior to 2021, Burns was a Professor of …
A recent survey of American adults conducted by researchers from the COVID States Project found that almost half of respondents reported being infected with COVID-19 at least once, with 35% saying they have tested positive more than once. The survey …
James T. Kolbe ’65, a former U.S. Representative from Arizona, passed away on December 3, 2022 at the age of 80. Kolbe served in the House of Representatives for 22 years, from 1985 until his retirement in 2007, and was …
Kathleen Belew, Associate Professor of History, has been featured many times over in the news lately to comment on the rise of white nationalist extremism, and, specifically, Trump’s meeting with white supremacist leader Nick Fuentes.
Belew, author of Bring …
PBS will be airing a new documentary, “The Lie Detector,” in their American Experience series on January 3 . The film draws extensively on Northwestern Professor of History Ken Alder‘s book, The Lie Detectors.
Alder, the Milton H.
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Historian İpek Yosmaoğlu has been elected the next President of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association – the field’s flagship professional association.
The Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association is a private, non-political organization of scholars, students, and other persons interested …
David Schoenbrun, Professor of History at Northwestern, has been awarded the 2022 Bethwell A. Ogot Prize by the African Studies Association (ASA) for his book, The Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930.
The Bethwell …