The academic year is over, and Dr. Ashley Robertson Preston, Ph.D., our Director of Undergraduate Studies held today a warm gathering to celebrate our history majors. Congratulations Bisons! Wishing much success! Thank you Ashley Robertson Preston, Ph.D. + Kay Wright Lewis for your service in this past year!

Our brilliant History majors Hanif Wright, Bria James, Khari Johnson, and Kelaiah Carey (poster), and Joseph Sturgeon, presenting their research papers during Howard University Research Month Symposium held last week.

Our PhD students, Tamia McDonald, Sydney Coleman and Fahtima Yaro presented brilliant papers researched and written during the graduate course Memory and Heritage of Slavery: Material Culture during Howard University Research Month symposium held last week.

JOIN US at Howard University on May 2 (THURSDAY), 'Proto-Citizenship and Emancipation in the Dutch Caribbean, 1770-1930, by Dr. Karwan Fatah-Black (Leiden University, Netherlands), event sponsored by Howard UniversityHistory and Moorland Spingarn Research Center. You can also attend it on Zoom us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Congratulations to Mr. Albert Thompson who successfully defended his PhD dissertation in US History, titled “Race and the Liberal State, 1933-1968.” Students and faculty wish you much success in the next steps of your career Dr. Thompson!

Dr. José Lingna Nafafé gave an amazing lecture on his book 'Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century' at Founders Library Howard University, an event sponsored by the Department of History and COAS Honors Program.

Today we had a warm gathering to celebrate to honor the work of Dr. Kay Wright Lewis, Interim Chair of the Department of History during this past year and the many achievements of our graduate students in the past academic year.

Congratulations to HISTORY PhD candidates Tiffany Wheatland and Philip Warfield!

DC people: Join us on this Tuesday at Howard University Founders Library for the lecture of historian José Lingna Nafafé. Event sponsored by Howard UniversityHistory and COAS Honors Program #slaveryarchive

We are delighted to welcome historian Magdalena Candioti (Maga Candioti) for the last session of this academic year of the Howard University Howard UniversityHistory Seminar 'Slavery, Memory, and African Diasporas' to be held on April 24 (Wednesday), 5:00 PM EST on Zoom.

Today I to spoke at Prairie View A&M University on the topic of Modeling Mary McLeod Bethune’s Example of Global Citizenship in the 21st Century. I would like to thank B-Global and I applaud them on the great work that they’re doing! #pvamu

We are looking forward to receiving Professor Karwan Fatah Black (Leiden University) at Howard University Howard UniversityHistory for a lecture on May 2, Thursday, 2:00 PM. If you can't make it in person, you can join us on Zoom, by registering here shorturl.at/knAPV

Full house Howard University ❤️ to listen historian Micheal Gomez deliver The Moorland Spingarn Research Center 110th Anniversary Distinguished Scholar Lecture #slaveryarchive

Happening today! Thanks to Prairie View A&M University for the invitation ❤️

Historians, faculty, and students in the DMV area, join us at Howard University on April 23, Tuesday 5:00 PM for the Workshop 'History, Memory, and Material Culture of Slavery.'

Wonderful news! New Course On Mary McLeod Bethune To Be Taught At Howard University by Howard UniversityHistory Dr. Ashley Robertson Preston, Ph.D. and Dr. noliwe rooks thehilltoponline.com/2024/04/02/new…

Congratulations to Tiffany Wheatland and Phillip Warfield on being inducted into the prestigious Bouchet Graduate Honor Society! We are so proud of our History Department doctoral candidates!

Historian Michael Gomez, a longtime friend of the Department of History will give the Moorland Spingarn Research Center 110th Anniversary Distinguished Scholar Lecture 'The Purchase of Diaspora' on April 4, 2:00 PM, Founders Library. If you are around, join us!

Calling all Howard University students especially Howard UniversityHistory and Brown University to register for our new course on the one and only Mary McLeod Bethune! Experiential learning with a trip to her home, digital history projects and more!

New exciting Fall 2024 undergraduate joint course at Howard University and Brown University taught by Dr. Ashley Robertson Preston, Ph.D. and noliwe rooks #WomensHistoryMonth