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Prakash Opines About "The Massacre That Led to the End of the British Empire" in The New York Times

The Jallianwala Bagh massacre in 1919 left 379 people dead and became a symbol of colonial injustice and violence. Ultimately, it marked the beginning of the end of colonial governance.

Thesis Day 2019

The Class of 2019 seniors are joined by their advisers to celebrate their thesis submission.

Beth Lew-Williams Receives Two Book Awards from the Organization of American Historians

Her book, The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America, is "a powerful and deeply humane account of the emergence of the racialized border, the consequences of which have echoed down to the present,” the OAH wrote.

Rhae Lynn Barnes & Tera Hunter Featured in PBS Documentary "Reconstruction"

April 2019
Episode 4
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War

Life of the Mind: Rhae Lynn Barnes on an American Stain

Barnes spoke to Princeton Alumni Weekly about the history of amateur blackface minstrel shows and how the vestiges of their popularity can still be felt in American culture.

Natalie Zemon Davis Workshop

April 26, 2019
010 East Pyne
1:30-4:30pm

Linda Colley to Receive Honorary Degree from Queen's University Belfast

The Honorary Degrees are presented to distinguished leaders of business, science, sport, academia, and the arts.

The Attention Screening: Ten Short Films

April 10, 2019
5:00 - 6:30pm
Jimmy Stewart Theater, 185 Nassau St.

Jaime Sánchez, Jr. Wins Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship

Through the Ford Fellowship, Sánchez, a second-year Ph.D. student, hopes to become an advocate in the academy for first-generation students and students of color.

When Bad Actors Twist History, Historians Take to Twitter. That’s a Good Thing.

Kevin Kruse is one of many academics who are using Twitter to debunk ahistorical statements.

Wendy Warren Named Frederick Burkhardt Fellow

The fellowship supports recently tenured scholars.

A Family's Vigil

Hua Qu, wife of graduate student Xiyue Wang, who is imprisoned in Iran, reflects on the daily struggles everyone in her family faces.

Decolonization & International Law Conference

March 8-9, 2019
211 Dickinson
Princeton University

Day of Action for Xiyue Wang, Feb. 20, 2019

About 150 people gathered at Chancellor Green for a rally in support of Xiyue Wang, a Princeton graduate student in history who was detained in Iran in 2016 while doing dissertation research and is serving a 10-year sentence at Evin Prison in Tehran.

The FDA's Proposed Ban on Menthol Cigarettes

Keith A. Wailoo, who is currently writing a book about the history of the menthol cigarette, published a response to the Food and Drug Administration's proposed ban on menthol-flavored cigarettes in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Davis Center Fellows and Postdocs, Spring 2019

Tatiana Borisova
Tom Johnson
Lena Salaymeh
Elizabeth Thornberry
Barbara Welke

and
George Aumoithe
Jonathan Connolly

Day of Action: Free Xiyue Wang

Wednesday, February 20, 2019
A call-a-thon, rally, and candelight vigil are scheduled for the day.

Graduate Student Sarah Carson Wins Jacobus Fellowship, Princeton's Top Graduate Student Honor

The fellowships support their final year of study at Princeton and are awarded to one Ph.D. student in each of the four divisions (humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering) whose work has exhibited the highest scholarly excellence.

Seniors Gerwin, Linfield Win Gates Cambridge Scholarships

Princeton University seniors Mikaela Gerwin, a concentrator in History, and Rachel Linfield, a concentrator in History of Science, have been awarded Gates Cambridge Scholarships.

Wheatley's Article Wins Surrency Prize

Natasha Wheatley's article "Spectral Legal Personality in Interwar International Law: On New Ways of Not Being a State" won the 2018 Surrency Prize from the American Society for Legal History.