UConn History Dept

Attention, Michigan area followers! Check out our own Manisha Sinha this afternoon:

Historian here join us today evening for this wonderful documentary at American Antiquarian Society featuring the amazing research of my colleague @UConnHistory Nina Dayton who unearthed the later life of Phillis Wheatley Peters and her husband John Peters americanantiquarian.org/programs-event…

Historian here very much looking forward to my visit to Franklin & Marshall College! Join us if you are in the area. fandm.edu/stories/histor…

Our own ⁦@LincolnHirn⁩ will be speaking at the Stowe Center for Literary Activism tomorrow evening! Details below: stowecenter.org/event/stowe-pr…

Historian here join us today for this free zoom webinar open to all: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Professor @_S_Silverstein is someone to whom I listen on issues of health and history. This essay helps us to situate the present American health drama in the history of health care, and thereby to see much more clearly what we face. snyder.substack.com/p/consumptive-…

Abolition wasn’t born out of policy change—it was a radical, global revolution. Manisha Sinha’s recent article illustrates how slave resistance fueled a movement that birthed feminism & fought imperialism, redefining democracy & human rights forever. bit.ly/4rofTjK

Happy Black History month To commemorate I am doing talks at a private New England prep school today and at an independent black book store in Alabama next week It's like the old abolitionist alliance that gave us emancipation and the Reconstruction Constitution Let's do it again

Since Trump has brought back old fashioned imperialism it might be the time to think about how we can prevent the fall of the Third republic on the 250th anniversary of the American Republic. My thoughts on this great democracy podcast. diydemocracy.libsyn.com/lessons-from-a…

Happy New Year! #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic named one of the best books of 2025. “Sinha does an exquisite job of arguing that Reconstruction is a much broader period in history than we think and expertly covers its impact on various populations & regions” Pub 2024!

Our own Manisha Sinha recently featured in The NY Times! Check it out here:

Folks if you want to take a break from the end of semester and holiday preparations, come join me for this free virtual program at 7 pm EST part of The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History's online programs via zoom. …erlehrman.secure.nonprofitsoapbox.com/dec250-rise-fa…

So this is what I did over the weekend, an interview on the Trump regime’s idiotic plan to make the national parks free on his birthday but cancel it for MLK Day with ABC News. The Pastor was far more eloquent than me but I got the the Nobel dig in. abcnews.go.com/US/video/junet…

Tonight at 7, featuring @ProfMSinha!

UConn Draper Chair of American History Manisha Sinha discusses global perspectives on abolition and democracy following a lecture tour celebrating the Chinese edition of her acclaimed book, 'The Slave’s Cause.' bit.ly/4pxrcp6

Very grateful to American Nineteenth Century History’s David Cox for putting together this wonderful symposium on #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic which grew out of the panel on the book at the United States Intellectual History conference organized by Benjamin Park.

Check out @ProfMSinha on Dec 2 in Cambridge!

If you are in Cambridge on December 2, come join me for this Harvard Bookstore event on Capitalism: A Global History with the great @ProfMSinha . harvard.com/event/sven-bec

Reminder that our next Wednesday Workshop will be TOMORROW (11/19) at 12:15. Info below: history.uconn.edu/news/wednesday…