Jillian Sasso, a double major in history and political science, was recently named as the Virginia Tech College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences 2024 Outstanding Senior. 🤩 Learn more about Jillian's journey here: news.vt.edu/articles/2024/…

Curious about how previous generations of VT students struggled with issues of war, peace, and social justice? This online exhibit explores how Hokies in the 1960s and 1970s navigated Civil Rights-era racial conflicts and debates around the Vietnam War. historylab.squarespace.com/protest-exhibit

Professor Dale Winling has been working with documentary filmmakers on racial segregation in Chicago and the multi-part series called 'The Shame of Chicago, the Shame of the Nation' premieres tonight!
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Virginia Tech History Professor Daniel Thorp is featured in an upcoming speaker series focused on Civil War battles in the New River Valley, sponsored by the Wilderness Road Regional Museum. For full details: givebutter.com/EJA8Mz?fbclid=…

Anne Giles, a 1981 History Department alumna, reunited with professors Glenn Bugh and Roger Ekirch yesterday! Bugh and Ekirch both have fond memories of Anne as a great student. It was an enjoyable reunion for everyone involved! 😊

Special Collections & University Archives invites you to attend the closing reception for 'Women in Appalachia: Food, Drink, & Community in the Twentieth Century,' curated by Kaitlynn Harless, a history graduate student who researches women activists during the West VA Mine Wars.

Join us for a public lecture by Marisa Duarte at 4 p.m. on March 14 in Newman Library's 101S classroom. Duarte, a citizen of the Pascua Yaqui Nation, is an associate professor at Arizona State University in the School of Social Transformation. We hope to see you there!

Join professor Paul Quigley this summer in Richmond for HIST 2104: The Richmond Experience: Exploring Civil War Era History in the Heart of the Confederacy. For more information, visit liberalarts.vt.edu/academics/Rich…

We are almost in the LAST hour of Giving Day!! If you haven’t already, please consider making a gift of $5 or more to the Department of History to support students, scholarships, and programming. givingday.vt.edu/amb/historydept #VTGivingDay

To support students like Grace, programming, and scholarships, you can make a gift of any size, big or small. Giving Day ends TODAY at noon, so make your gift now! givingday.vt.edu/amb/historydept #VTGivingDay

If you’re as passionate about helping your fellow Hokies as Miles is about history, make a gift now – Giving Day ends at noon! Gifts of any size go a long way in supporting our students. givingday.vt.edu/amb/historydept #VTGivingDay

Macie Alford hopes to be a teacher one day to make an impact, “big or small,” on the children in her community. You can support students like Macie by making an impact of your own – gifts of any size go a long way in supporting student scholarships givingday.vt.edu/amb/historydept

The next 24 hours are your chance to make a difference in the lives of our History Department students! Even $5 goes a long way in helping our students’ dreams become a reality. Make your gift today: givingday.vt.edu/amb/historydept

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The countdown has begun -- we are LESS THAN A MONTH AWAY from Giving Day 2024!! 🎉

If you're passionate about supporting our History department students, mark your calendars now for February 21 - 22! 🗓

We hope your semester is already off to a great start! Stay warm out there, Hokies!!

Anna Zeide, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Food Studies Program at Virginia Tech, shares the history behind the food of Thanksgiving Day! news.vt.edu/articles/2023/…

Join us after the Thanksgiving break for 3 panels on the Israel-Palestine Crisis. This series of will help provide context to better understand the current conflict. Please register at this link: forms.office.com/r/RKYJqu70t6

The Department of History will be hosting a watch party for Ebony Coletu's talk 'Related to Strangers' in Major Williams 427 this Friday, 11/17 at 12! We hope to see you there -- we will have coffee and snacks! You can also join via Zoom: virginiatech.zoom.us/j/87853589358.

Be sure to stop by TODAY before 2 p.m. outside of Squires for the History Club's 'Blind Date with a Book' event! They have a huge assortment of great books, so go check it out and see what kind of book you end up with!

Join us for Mary Maker's talk 'How do you win as a refugee?' next week! This talk will be held on Monday, November 6 at 6 p.m. in Newman Library's Goodall Multipurpose room. You can find more information in the flyer below!