Matt L. Jones’ recent book, How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms, which he co-authored with Chris Wiggins, was featured in a recent New Yorker article on data science. This article also featured Matthew Connelly’s recent publication, The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America’s Top Secrets.
Matt L. Jones‘ recent book, How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms, which he co-authored with Chris Wiggins, was featured in a recent New Yorker article on data science. This article also featured Matthew Connelly‘s recent publication, The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America’s Top Secrets. See more about these works on each professor’s Twitter account: Matt L. Jones (@nescioquid), Chris Wiggins (@chrishwiggins), and Matthew Connelly (@mattspast)
George Chauncey was elected to the Board of Trustees of the New-York Historical Society.
George Chauncey was elected to the Board of Trustees of the New-York Historical Society.
Hannah Farber’s Underwriters of the United States received the Hagley Prize for the best book in business history from the Business History Conference for 2023 and the John Lyman Book Award for US Maritime History from the North American Society for Oceanic History.
Hannah Farber’s Underwriters of the United States received the Hagley Prize for the best book in business history from the Business History Conference for 2023 and the John Lyman Book Award for US Maritime History from the North American Society for Oceanic History.
David Rosner published an article in the American Journal of Public Health on the history of scientific manipulation and fraud conducted by the Monsanto Corporation during the 1970s and 1980s.
David Rosner published an article in the American Journal of Public Health on the history of scientific manipulation and fraud conducted by the Monsanto Corporation during the 1970s and 1980s. Read the article here.
Greg Mann was featured in the Mali press following his participation in a videoconference on the topic of International Women’s Day and the struggle for women’s rights and democracy in Mali throughout the 1990s.
Greg Mann was featured in the Mali press following his participation in a videoconference on the topic of International Women’s Day and the struggle for women’s rights and democracy in Mali throughout the 1990s. Read the article (in French) here and read an an English translation here.

Eric Foner. The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution. 2019: W.W. Norton.

Carol Gluck. Senso No Kioku (War Memory.) 2019. Amazon Link.

Martha Howell (co-editor with Peter Arnade and Anton van der Lem). Rereading Huizinga: Autumn of the Middle Ages, a Century Later. 2019: Amsterdam University Press.

Pamela Smith (ed.). Entangled Itineraries: Materials, Practices, and Knowledges across Eurasia. 2019: University of Pittsburgh Press.

Stephanie McCurry. Women’s War: Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War. 2019: Harvard University Press.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse: How History is Used in Senate Politics Concerning Climate Change Denialism
U.S. Senator Senator Sheldon Whitehouse spoke to the Community University community on Monday, February 6, 2023 regarding Climate Change, U.S policy and his new book : “The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court, and the Damage the Court is Doing to the Fight Against Climate Change.” View a recorded video of this event by clicking here.
Columbia University and Slavery: A Research and Justice Initiative
The Columbia University and Slavery project is a research and justice initiative examining Columbia’s connections to the history and legacies of enslavement. The ongoing work aims to provide a fuller and more nuanced picture of Columbia’s past, while also helping to inform conversations about the university’s role in the present.
Confluence: A History of North American Rivers
Rivers have always been the lifeblood of the continent, yet their human histories have remained largely hidden from public view. Our goal is to create a publicly accessible digital platform for mapping and narrating lived history along North American rivers.