It is with great excitement that I write to you—our alumni and friends—from the halls of the History Department. In January of this year, I took on the role of Department Chair. Previously, I served as History’s Undergraduate Advisor. My research and teaching focus on urban and modern US history,...

Dr. William Wagner received two teaching awards this year from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the University of Colorado Denver. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Teaching Award was awarded to him on May 3, 2019. The CU Denver Excellence in Teaching Award for the Denver...

Dr. Greg Whitesides celebrated the release of his new book, Science and American Foreign Relations Since World War II (Cambridge University Press) in December of 2018. The sciences played a critical role in American foreign policy after World War II. From atomic energy and satellites to the green revolution, scientific...

Justin Vaughan is an MA student studying Middle Eastern History who was recently accepted to the PhD Program at the University of Denver's Josef Korbel School for International Studies. He expects to graduate from CU Denver in August of 2019 and proceed directly to the International Studies Program. Vaughan's MA...

Johns Hopkins University Press, in partnership with the Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries, has received a $200,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities to create digital editions of more than 200 significant but currently out-of-print scholarly books published by the Press. The grant...