Erik McDuffie, an associate professor in the Department of African American Studies and History, was recently awarded the Jon Gjerde Prize for best book...

The Department of History is pleased to announce that two new faculty members will join our ranks in the fall. Our new colleagues will add to our strengths in digital history, public history and Caribbean history.Kalani Craig Professor Craig joins us from Indiana University (Bloomington) where...

 Even though Richard Young is pursuing his PhD in history, he has always been interested in computers. During his undergraduate years, Young and his friend, a computer science major, would get together over weekends to tell each other what they were learning about in their respective fields of...

Meet Anne Sweeney (BA,'15, history), a social studies and English teacher at Oswego High School. She has taught a range of courses in her 10 years at Oswego, including AP Psychology, World Cultures, and U.S. History. Sweeney credits her strong critical thinking skills and being an effective...

 How do we preserve and interpret the historical record in a digital age? Traditionally, archivists collect and preserve historical sources, historians interpret them through books or documentary editions, and publishers distribute them. Today, historical sources that once would have been only...