NEW: The Russian oil boycott holds striking parallels to the OPEC oil embargo of the 1970s. Historian Marino Auffant teases out the ironies in the 1st a 3-part series on the Russian oil boycott and the Geopolitics of Energy. epicenter.wcfia.harvard.edu/blog/geopoliti… Johns Hopkins SAIS Harvard History

Young Scholars Initiative Institute for New Economic Thinking Is a new international economic order possible? Expert discussion coming up, follow online: bit.ly/3zHoF4u

🏆Congratulations to Abigail Modaff (mostly on bluesky) (Harvard History), who has been awarded the Leo P. Ribuffo Dissertation Prize! Learn more about her scholarship #USIH #twitterstorians s-usih.org/2022/08/announ…

Harvard's Laird Bell Professor of History, Sven Beckert recently visited James Cook Uni JCU College of Arts, Society and Education to host a workshop with JCU academics. Under discussion was 'commodity frontiers' as a key to understanding the expansion of global capitalism. Stay tuned for collaboration news...

Can the spectacle of modern politics today be traced back to a photograph of Abraham Lincoln taken during the presidential election in 1860? (From THIRTEEN and PBS Digital Studios) to.pbs.org/3Ai7rep

Join Plan II Honors for "Amend: Rewriting the U.S. Constitution," a talk by historian, journalist, and Harvard History professor Jill Lepore The New Yorker on Sep. 15! Details & tickets: bit.ly/3cg8Jxd.

Students, faculty, and staff look back and reflect on September 11, 2001 hrvd.me/InFocus911t

As Harvard Makes Amends for Its Ties to Slavery, Descendants Ask, What Is Owed? nytimes.com/2022/09/12/us/…

Rethinking Cuban art news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/… via Harvard University

Join us for the first Fairbank Center, Harvard University Modern China Lecture of the fall! Touring China: A History of Travel Culture, 1912–1949 by @mo_yajun (Boston College) Thursday 4 PM EST. Event is hybrid. Details here: fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-… Harvard University Asia Center Harvard-Yenching Institute Harvard History

Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Panel hosted by the FAS Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Harvard University Monday, November 7, 2022, Virtual Event Sven Beckert Annette Gordon-Reed @TiyaMilesTAM odib.fas.harvard.edu/event/harvard-…

Emma Rothschild has been awarded the American Historical Association 2022 Leo Gershoy Award for her book 'An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries' (An Infinite History). infinitehistory.org/en/

Congratulations to Professor Tamar Herzog, who was among the awardees for this year's Humboldt Research Award!

We are excited to share this article in the American Historical Review by Harvard History PhD graduate Gili Kliger! "Translating God on the Borders of Sovereignty:" academic.oup.com/ahr/article/12…

thecrimson.com/article/2022/1… Always great to see our concentrators in The Crimson!

Hey Tom Hanks, Harvard History has set aside a mug and tote for you if you visit Robinson Hall on 5/24 or 5/25. If you come 5/24 you can attend our PhD graduate reception from 4-6 and if you come on 5/25 our Chair will personally escort you to the Department! Harvard Commencement

A big congrats to Samantha Payne, who was awarded the Allan Nevins Prize for her dissertation, “The Last Atlantic Revolution: Reconstruction and the Struggle for Democracy in the Americas, 1861-1912”. history.fas.harvard.edu/samantha-payne…