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Connections, the Department of History's e-newsletter, brings you news and highlights of each academic year.  Every issue showcases alumni stories, along with features and the achievements of our students and professors.  We love hearing from our alumni!  Share your updates with us at history-dept@cua.edu.

 

  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

    2024 Alumni Newsletter

    The Department of History is recommitting itself to a vibrant undergraduate program, with some reviews and new initiatives, and a new place within Arts and Sciences.  Meanwhile, we reflect: what does it mean when a historian lives history while it happens?  Read all this and more in our latest issue of Connections.

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  • McMahon Hall, New Home of History Department

    2023 Alumni Newsletter

    The Department of History's new space in McMahon Hall is perfectly suited for building our community, and our students have responded by rebooting our History Club.  Meanwhile we reflect on our rich tradition of training future medievalists.  Learn the latest from Dr. Michael Kimmage, the Department's Chair.

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  • McMahon Hall, New Home of History Department

    2022 Alumni Newsletter

    The Department of History begins a transition to a new home at the heart of the campus, and continues its traditions of research achievement and student success.  Learn the latest from Dr. Michael Kimmage, the Department's Chair.

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  • CUA commencement 2021

    2021 Alumni Newsletter

    After a "year like no other", things started to move back to normal: students and professors are back in the classroom, with restrictions.  Learn from our Chair, Dr. Michael Kimmage, how we rose to new challenges and recognized new opportunities.

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  • Zoom screen

    2020 Alumni Newsletter

    In the spring of 2020, our students and faculty faced unprecedented circumstances, which continue into the 2020-2021 academic year.  Learn from our Chair, Dr. Michael Kimmage, how we turned challenges into opportunities, and learned from each other in new ways.

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  • 2019 graduate students

    2019 Alumni Newsletter

    This issue's theme is "public history," the ways that people trained in historical methods interpret and present the past to audiences beyond academia. We hope you'll enjoy these stories about alumni who've managed museums and local historical societies, professional historians' organizations, historic preservation departments in government, and oral-history projects for the U.S. military.

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  • 2017 senior thesis celebration

    2018 Alumni Newsletter

    Looking back on the 2017-2018 academic year, Professor Katherine L. Jansen reflects on the Department’s continuing successes.  Professors in the Department published a remarkable seven books over the past twelve months.  A departmental self-study confirmed, again, that History is one of the strongest programs on campus.  At the end of the summer, Professor Jansen handed on the responsibilities of department chair to Professor Michael Kimmage.

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  • O'Boyle Hall

    2017 Alumni Newsletter

    In the past year, the Department of History moved to a new home, instituted a new careers forum for undergraduate history majors, and had its usual full slate of events and achievements. The newsletter also includes stories about international alumni, our newest professor, and the year in highlights.

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  • Pope at CUA

    2016 Alumni Newsletter

    In our inaugural e-newsletter we say bon voyage to Ramon Sola, for many years the linchpin of the Department of History, hear from a history alumnus who went from living upstairs in Gibbons as a student to teaching in Gibbons basement as a professor and an alumna whose work has truly global reach, and outline highlights from a busy year for the department.

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