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Office hours with Pablo Sierra Silva
The URochester professor, who teaches World History Through Soccer, on the power of primary sources and sport as a window onto society.
Steven Hahn ’73 on America’s illiberal past and present
From eugenics to segregation, the Pulitzer Prize winner says America’s ‘darker impulses’ run deep.
William Hauser, professor emeritus of history, remembered
Hauser was devoted to teaching Japanese and East Asian history over a career of nearly four decades.
Historic Bermuda reshapes our understanding of colonial America
Smithsonian Magazine highlights the role of a Rochester historian and archaeologist in unearthing Bermuda’s colonial origins.
On thinning ice
A pair of Rochester historians are chronicling the history of the world’s glacial regions—and human responses to their rapid disappearance.
Surprising facts and beliefs about eclipses during medieval and Renaissance times
Rochester experts offer historical insights into medieval society’s fascination with astronomical and astrological phenomena.
Pablo Sierra Silva: Using primary sources to immerse students in the past
The history professor leads his class back in time to analyze events that shaped today’s world.