New Jersey designates April 9 as "Paul Robeson Day" in honor of Rutgers' celebrated alumnus and one of the greatest and most courageous human beings of all time. rutgers.edu/news/new-jerse…

Interpreting American History Lecture Series presents "Grave Matter(s): Unearthing Black Cemeteries in the Santee-Cooper Basin" by Dr. Kelsey A. Moore. 🗓️ Wednesday, April 16, 5:30 PM 📍Van Dyck Hall 308 For pre-circulated paper contact [email protected]

The Rutgers Center for Latin American Studies and the Colombian Working Group will host a conversation with Hernán Arciniegas, a Colombian human rights defender. This is a hybrid event 🇨🇴 🗓️ Thursday, April 10, 4:00 PM 📍Academic Building West Wing 5190 🔗rutgers.zoom.us/j/92076674727?…

Rutgers History Professor Leslie Alexander briefly discusses "The Cost of Haiti's Liberation." #Rutgers facebook.com/reel/239905053…

Join us for "The Maidin Baksh Incident: Law, Enslavement, and the Making of Maritime Sovereignty in 19th Century India," a lecture by Kalyani Ramnath (Columbia Univ.), author of Boats in a Storm. 📍 Van Dyck Hall, Rm 301 🕛 Wed, April 16 | 12–1:30 PM 🥪 Light lunch served!

"The Ocean on Fire: Stories from Nuclear Survivors and Climate Activists at the Empire's Edge" by Anaïs Maurer, published by Duke University Press 📍 AB 4052, College Ave Campus 🕛 Wed, April 16 | 12 PM Lunch provided Hosted by the Center for European Studies, Series Europe at Rutgers.

The Rutgers Center for Latin America Studies presents "Las Rejas No Callarán la Verdad: Family Organizing, Social Reproduction & Justice under El Salvador’s carceral state" by Grazzia Grimaldi. 🗓️April 17 | 7 PM ET | On Zoom Register: shorturl.at/EcCDe

Join us for the "The Myth of Green Germany" talk with historian Stephen Milder. 🗓️Wed, April 23 | 5:30 PM 📍AB (West) 5190 💻 Virtual option: rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/regist… Hosted by the Rutgers Center for European Studies Co-sponsored by the Rutgers Climate and Energy Institute

Join us today for the talk "The Settler Fishes of the British Empire: Angling and the Colonization of Freshwater Ecosystems, 1860–1992" by Dr. Tobias Harper (Arizona State) 📅 Monday, April 21 ,4:00 PM 📍 AB 6051 West Wing Hosted by RBSC & the Environmental History Working Group

Congrats to Jack Bouchard, winner of the 2024 Leopold-Hidy Award for the article "Fishwork Is for the Birds: Humans and Birds in the Sixteenth-Century Northwest Atlantic," published at Environmental History Read what editorial members said about the article 👇journals.uchicago.edu/journals/eh/le…

The Rutgers History Department was delighted to see so many former students, faculty, and friends of Jackson Lears at the retirement symposium in honor of Jackson Lears, Distinguished Professor and Editor-in-Chief of Raritan: A Quarterly Review. #Rutgers

History grad students! Join us tomorrow for the Spring Mixer #RutgersHistory 🗓️Tues, May 6, 5–8 PM, 📍Academic Building West 6051/kitchen. Let’s toast the end of the year! 🥂 Dinner & drinks served.

Many congratulations to Rutgers History and Journalism and Media Studies Professor David Greenberg, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography for “John Lewis: A Life!” #PulitzerFinalist #JohnLewis

We're excited to announce that Nathan Darmiento, PhD student, is a 2025 James R. Scobie Awardee Conference on Latin American History (CLAH). His project, “Development in the Jungle: Struggles Over the Natural Environment and Security on the Chiapas-Guatemala Border,” will take him to the field this summer 🎉

Ph.D. student Sandra Acocal has won the prestigious Irving Stoddard Kull Memorial Traveling Fellowship for Premodern Historical Studies! She will spend 9 months in different archives in Spain. Congratulations Sandra! We're proud 🎉

Join us in celebrating the incredible achievements of our newest Doctors of Philosophy! After years of groundbreaking research and tireless commitment to historical scholarship, these scholars are moving on to the next chapters of their careers. CONGRATULATIONS We are proud 🎉🎉