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)

                             

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.

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.

march 2023

30mar5:00 pm- 6:00 pmAn Afro-Atlantic Community in 17th Century Amsterdam: Archival Research, Digital Humanities and Public History

april 2023

3apr6:00 pm- 7:30 pmHumanism at the University of Leiden: Pedagogy, Philology, and Printing

12apr4:20 pm- 6:00 pmLH Workshop with Maria Adele Carrai (NYU) - "The Human Frontier: The Chinese Overseas and the Making of Modern China" Commentator: Madeleine Zelin (Columbia, History)

13apr5:00 pm- 6:30 pmCRIGHS: The Report, or, Whatever Happened to Third World Feminist Theory?

14apr11:00 am- 1:00 pmNew York City Latin American History Workshop (Co-Sponsored by Dept., Hosted by Baruch College) - Julio Esteban Vezub (Inst. Patagónico de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas/Columbia), "'Act of War': The Sketches of Major Francisco Host during the Conquest of Patagonia, 1879-1880"

14apr10:00 pm- 5:00 pmRe-forming the History of the Reformation?

27apr4:00 pm- 4:26 pmRefugee Cities: Symposium on the Urban Dimensions of Forced Displacement

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. 

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