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This Spring Dr. Cameron Blevins published his first book, Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West, Oxford University Press. The book explores how the American state expanded its domestic influence through the U.S. Postal Service. Blevins digitally mapped 166,140 post offices constructed between 1639 and...

Dear Students, Colleagues, Alumni, and Friends, This last year the History Department was thrilled to welcome two new professors - Xiaofei Gao and Cameron Blevins - into our ranks. For years, the Department has been looking to address its coverage in China History and Digital Studies, and it is quite...

The History Department welcomes Professor Xiaofei Gao to the faculty! Professor Gao is an historian of modern China with teaching specializations in global history and modern East Asian history. Her research interests, she explains, gravitate toward the "intersections between society, environment, and gender relations." Professor Gao is currently working on...

Every semester the History Department is proud to support its students in their academic pursuits and celebrate with them when they reach the end of the BA program. In the Fall 2019 several students graduated with honors and exemplified the traits of professional historians with their Senior Seminar papers. The...

For many students and faculty, schoolwork has changed in ways many could have never imagined. With the spread of COVID-19, the university made the decision to close campus and transition to remote learning on March 16, 2020. Through this all, both students and faculty have shown an amazing amount of...

Each year the History Department is proud to support its students and their research through the Historical Studies Journal . Our faculty review assignment submissions each semester and choose outstanding papers based on the papers’ arguments and content. Th journal is published at the end of each term. The History...

This has been a proud year for the History Department as its students, staff, and faculty have all shown great care for one another in a time of crisis. Campus closed on March 16 due to COVID-19, and we have not seen one another face-to-face ever since. Nevertheless, the students...

Dr. Chris Agee Prof. Agee was invited to submit the first chapter of his book—“That Neighborly Spirit of Mutual Care”: Neighborhood Anticrime Organizing in Philadelphia, 1970-1977—to a “Race and Policing" to a workshop organized by the Harvard Law School. This chapter narrates the rise of Philadelphia’s Mayor Frank Rizzo—a proto-Trump...

The History Department would like to welcome Professor Peter Kopp to the faculty! Joining us from New Mexico State University where he was the Director of Public history for seven years, Kopp shared that he was looking for a new challenge in his career. He says, “I was drawn to...

Before Shay Gonzales graduated from CU Denver in 2014 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and a minor in Communications, he had attended Community College of Denver where he earned his Associate’s degree in Art. Over the years Gonzales’ academic career has continued to progress. The research Gonzales...