Every few years, students in HIS 283: War in the Modern Western World and select members of Princeton's Army ROTC travel to Normandy, France, to visit D-Day sites.
On March 28 at 7:30 pm in Betts Auditorium, join the Department of History for a panel discussion with alumni. Reception to follow.
Princeton University seniors Austin Davis and Ella Gantman are the recipients of the 2023 Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the highest general distinction conferred on an undergraduate.
The Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship is one of Princeton University's highest awards.
The Koren Prize recognizes outstanding departmental work during the junior year.
At Oxford, she will pursue an MPhil in history. In her academic work, her independent research has combined her passions for history and journalism.
The Carter Kim Combe (’74) History Prize recognizes the best second semester junior research paper.
The Trenton Project is pleased to showcase student documentary films about Trenton in the 1940s through the 1960s. These films will be available online at The Trenton Project in late fall 2022.
Featuring papers written by:
Juan José López Haddad
Margaret Murphy
Dante Sudilovsky
Isaac Wills
Edited by Maddie Winter and Johanne Kjaersgaard
Congratulations to all members of the History Undergraduate Class of 2022.
Princeton seniors Jacquelyn Dávila and Shaffin Siddiqui have received the Martin A. Dale ’53 Fellowship to spend a year after graduation pursuing a project of special interest to them.
Princeton senior Emily Sánchez has been awarded a fellowship from ReachOut 56-81-06, an alumni-funded effort that supports year-long public service projects after graduation. Sánchez will develop a podcast series on the history of Latino communities across New Jersey.
He intends to use the award to study the history of medicine in the modern Muslim world at the University of Cambridge.
The Koren Prize recognizes outstanding departmental work during the junior year.
The Marshall Scholarship offers intellectually distinguished young Americans the opportunity to develop their abilities as future leaders by studying at a U.K. university of the recipient’s choice.
The Carter Kim Combe (’74) History Prize recognizes the best second semester junior research paper.
Spring 2022
Looking for an exciting History course? Explore a range of courses from ancient to modern times, world history to history of science.
Watch the Class Day celebration for the Class of 2021 and join us in toasting their accomplishments.
Congratulations to all members of the History Undergraduate Class of 2021.
Ort is one of 11 students recognized for their commitment to the undergraduate experience.
For his Dale project, he is studying the environmental impact — along with the attendant economic and cultural repercussions — of U.S. colonialism and the deep history of anti-colonial resistance in Hawaiʻi.
The fellowship gives graduating seniors an opportunity to work as research assistants to scholars at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Bhadrajee Hewage '20 was awarded a Clarendon Scholarship for DPhil study in History at Oxford next year.
Chisom Ilogu and Leopoldo Solis will use the prize to pursue international civic engagement projects for one year following graduation.
The Koren Prize recognizes outstanding departmental work during the junior year.
The History department faculty has voted to approve a proposal from the Undergraduate Program Committee, to revise the requirements for the concentration.
The winner of this year's Carter Kim Combe (’74) History Prize for the best second semester junior research paper is Alec Israeli for his paper, “A New Era in the Struggle for Freedom: American Radicals and the Paris June Days of 1848."
Elizabeth Bailey and Alec Israeli have been elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Congratulations to all members of the History Undergraduate Class of 2020.