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Kobrin CNN opinion
Rebecca Kobrin‘s “How will the White House remember the Holocaust?” was featured on CNN Opinion.
Jackson Wall Street Journal
Kenneth Jackson was quoted in The Wall Street Journal‘s “Can New York Get Ferry Skeptics on Board?”
Foner conference
The Department of History will be holding a conference, Eric Foner: People’s Historian, Historian’s Historian, a celebration of his career on April 21-22, 2017. For additional information, visit the event site here.
LIVESTREAM for Eric Foner: People’s Historian, Historian’s Historian will be available on the History Department’s YouTube channel beginning at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, April 21, 2017 and at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, April, 22, 2017
Ngai Davis Fellowship
Mae Ngai was awarded a fellowship from the Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University for Spring 2018.
Foner The Nation
Eric Foner was interviewed by The Nation: “‘Trump Is Just Tearing Off the Mask’: An Interview with Eric Foner.”
Mazower FT piece
Mark Mazower‘s piece “War or peace? How the battle lines became blurred,” was featured in the Financial Times.
Pizzigoni Award
Caterina Pizzigoni was awarded the 56th annual Mark Van Doren Award for Teaching.
Howell Columbia College interview
Martha Howell was interviewed by Columbia College Today on gender inequality, feminism and how the Women’s Marches have energized the movement.
Jacoby book award
Karl Jacoby‘s book, The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Millionaire was awarded the Organization of American Historian’s Billington Prize in Frontier and Borderlines History.
Blake Democratizing
“Democratizing the Great Books,” a piece co-authored by Casey Blake, was featured in Inside Higher Ed.