History: News & Announcements

2012 History Department Annual Newsletter

The 2012 History Department Annual Newsletter is now available. Inside we review last year's Student History Conference, speak with a few or our emeriti faculty, spotlight some of our current and former students, and take a look at what our faculty have doing over the past year. We hope you enjoy reading it!

Click here to download a PDF copy of the 2012 newsletter.

Master of Arts in History Information Session

You are invited to learn more about DePaul University’s graduate program in History. At this information session you will have the ability to learn about program content, degree requirements, and the application process from the graduate program director.

Date: Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Time: 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Location: Lincoln Park Campus
Welcome Center Room 103
2400 North Sheffield Avenue
Chicago, IL 60614

Click here to register for the event.

The TEACH Program

Interested in teaching history? Consider the TEACH program.

You can earn a bachelor’s degree in History as well as a master’s degree and certification in Education-Social Science: History in just five years through the TEACH program.

For more information click here, or contact Prof. Colleen Doody.

Department of History Women's History Month Lecture

“Celestial Women” in the Windy City
Chinese Chicago: Race, Transnational Migration, and Community since 1870, (Stanford University Press, 2012)

Presentation/Book Signing by Dr. Huping Ling
Followed by a reception

March 29, 2011
5-6PM Book Cover
Richardson Library, Room 400

A leading scholar in Asian American studies, Executive Editor of Journal of Asian American Studies, and author of eleven books and over hundred articles, Professor Huping Ling of Truman State University will present her newly published book Chinese Chicago: Race, Transnational Migration, and Community since 1870 (Stanford University Press, 2012), from the three Moy brothers in the 1870s to the present Chinese Chicagoland. In her presentation, Ling will focus on how race, transnational migration, and community defined the lives of Chinese women in the great American Midwestern metropolis, Chicago.

Large version of event poster.

Winter Quarter History Faculty Research Workshops

Class Conflict, Boredom, and Automobiles!

Join us for the winter quarter History Department Faculty Research Workshops.

Our first workshop will feature Associate Professor Jim Wolfinger and his paper "It Was Nothing Short of War: Street Railways and the Spread of Class Conflict in Early Twentieth Century Philadelphia," this Friday, January 13, from 1-2PM.

Additional workshops will be:

Friday 2/10, 11-12pm, Chris Stacey, "The Boring Twenties and the Paradigmatic Thirties: American Boredom and its Cultural Consequences"

Friday 3/2, 1-2pm, Rob Buerglener, "The Senses and Sensibilities of Early Automobile Users"

All meetings will be held in 2320 N. Kenmore, SAC 432 on DePaul's Lincoln Park Campus. Papers will be emailed to participants one week prior to the workshop. Guests may request a copy of the paper by emailing history [at] depaul [dot] edu.

Upcoming spring quarter workshops: Karen Scott, Robin Mitchell, and Emanuele Colombo.

Eighth Annual Student History Conference

The Eighth Annual Student History Conference will take place on April 27, 2012 at the Lincoln Park Campus Student Center.

Click here for more information.

History Department Newsletter Now Available

The 2011 History Department newsletter is now available here.

This year's newsletter includes a message from our chair, updates from our Sixth Annual Student History Conference, an alumi spotlight, and profiles of all our full-time faculty.

Click here for a PDF version of the newsletter.