History
Inquiring Minds
COLA student research is featured in UNH’s Inquiry Journal. Read MoreAlso in UNH Today...
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05/11/22
Blue Ribbon Day
COLA students are among a select group recognized for excellence in scholarship, leadership, citizenship and more. -
04/19/22
The Gary Lindberg Award
Lucy Salyer, professor of history, has been named the 2022 Lindberg Award winner in COLA. -
03/14/22
People, Not Science, Decide When a Pandemic Is Over
UNH's Molly Dorsey is one of two historians featured in this Scientific American article. -
03/07/22
A Shared History
Before graduating last September from UNH’s museum studies program, Amy Denham worked with Kimberly Alexander, director of museum studies with the...
Recent Stories
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05/12/15 - Yvette Olivia George ’71UNH degree: Bachelor's, history (later a master's in African American studies, Boston University)Currently lives in: Houston, Texas Please share highlights of your career or... Read More
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05/12/15 - Lawrence Woods ’72UNH degree: Full-time student 1968- 1972, complete final nine credits in 1975. In 1975, earned a bachelor of arts degree with a major in History and a minor in sociology. In 1979... Read More
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04/16/15 - Big Lessons of the Big EasyWhen a group of UNH students finally heard the music on the street corners of New Orleans; when they took a ride with a friendly carriage driver who rode around with his pet snake... Read More
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04/14/15 - Series: In the ClassroomEver wish you could sit-in on one of the coolest courses at UNH? With our In The Classroom series, we go into the labs and classrooms here on the Durham campus. Hear from... Read More
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04/08/15 - The Hidden Gems of Ham SmithArtist George Lloyd was on a mission to find a “real” farmer. It was the spring of 1939, and, having been commissioned to paint a mural about agriculture that would cover one... Read More
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01/06/15 - A Royal DNA Mystery, Five Centuries Later: UNH Professors Weigh In On Richard III FindingsUniversity of Leicester image Consider this the coldest of cold cases: 529 years after his death, a 16th century English king has been positively identified through DNA testing... Read More
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11/18/14 - Helping HomeFrom his earliest days, history and UNH were an integral part of life for J. Morgan Rutman ’84. His father, long-time faculty member and early American history scholar Darrett B... Read More
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11/18/14 - Goodwin's GuysAfter a lifetime spent writing about American presidents, world-renowned presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin is a little anxious about what complaints her subjects might... Read More
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10/31/14 - Still in a Haunted Mood? Ph.D. Candidate Shares Her Expertise on Salem Witch TrialsIt was 1692. Like the rest of New England, Massachusetts was under British rule. It was against the law not to go to church. Puritan doctrine was suspect of anything that wasn't... Read More
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10/01/14 - Of Presidential Politics and Life Lessons LearnedAfter a lifetime spent writing about American presidents, world-renowned presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin has a bit of anxiety about what might happen to her in the... Read More