We are mourning the passing of Alon Confino, director of the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies and professor of history and Judaic and Near Eastern studies. Alon was an internationally renowned scholar and a beloved colleague. umass.edu/history/news/m…

Congratulations to PhD candidate Bing Xia, who will be working on his dissertation this summer with funding and writing support from a UMass Amherst Graduate School summer dissertation fellowship! 👏 umass.edu/humanities-art…

Now's your chance to turn summer downtime into a learning opportunity! Classes for summer session 2, including modern Middle Eastern history, begin on Monday. Learn more and enroll here: umass.edu/history/summer…

Congrats to UMass Amherst's Timothy Hastings, who will be conducting research on his project, “Situating Race in New Hampshire’s Atlantic World,” at MHS Research through the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium and an MHS African American History Fellowship!

Check out Tore Olsson '04's innovative approach to teaching history in the The Chronicle of Higher Education! 🎮 UMass Amherst UMass Amherst HFA

We're proud of Elizabeth (Libby) Sharrow and their award-winning work! 🏅

This month marks the 60th anniversary of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which solidified Congress’s “long-standing deference to the presidency on foreign policy,” writes Christian Appy, who analyzes the historic resolution's impact in his latest opinion piece for Common Dreams:

"How should information be used? Who should control it? And how should it be preserved?" asheeshksi.bsky.social writes that societies have grappled with these questions for centuries. Read his latest article for Yale University Press's blog for more on "The Imperial Origins of #BigData."