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About Us

Duke’s History Department — among the top programs in the country — regard the creation of knowledge as one of the fundamental missions of a research university. Our world-renowned faculty, who work closely with our students and collaborate with colleagues across disciplines, are at the cutting edge of research in their fields as they address society’s greatest challenges. And our graduate and undergraduate academic programs — designed to help students critically think about the world around them — successfully prepare students for a wide range of careers.

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Bill Sharman

Bill Sharman publishes essay on refugees and...

Bill Sharman recently published an essay in Zeitgeschichte-Online entitled "Refugee Refusals: Human Rights and Humanitarianism since 1948.” The essay is part of an edited... read more about Bill Sharman publishes essay on refugees and human rights »

Journal of the History of Sexuality cover page

Rob Franco publishes article in the most recent...

PhD candidate, Rob Franco published his first article, "Todos/as Somos 41: The Dance of the Forty-One from Homosexual Reappropriation to Transgender Representation in Mexico, 1945... read more about Rob Franco publishes article in the most recent issue of the Journal of the History of Sexuality »

Anne Firor Scott

Anne Frior Scott has died at 97

Pioneering historian Anne Firor Scott, who helped establish the field of women’s history and taught at Duke for three decades, has died. She was 97. Read more in Duke Today. read more about Anne Frior Scott has died at 97 »

Nicole Barnes

Nicole Barnes receives 2019 Intellectual...

A key goal of Together Duke is to invest in faculty as scholars and leaders of the university’s intellectual communities. To foster collaboration around new and emerging areas of... read more about Nicole Barnes receives 2019 Intellectual Community Planning Grant »

Huijuan Li

Huijuan Li op-ed on #MeToo in China

Graduate student, Huijuan Li, published an op-ed on the #METoo movement in China.  You can read the article here. read more about Huijuan Li op-ed on #MeToo in China »

Adam Mestyan

Adam Mestyan writes blog post in The Beehive

Prof. Adam Mestyan recently wrote a casual blog post about a small historical riddle in the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society.  You can read his post here. read more about Adam Mestyan writes blog post in The Beehive »

Chappel

James Chappel publishes article on feminism in...

James Chappel very recently published an article titled, "Ageing into Feminism".  You can read the article here. read more about James Chappel publishes article on feminism in the Boston Review »

Laurent Dubois shares his experience as a New...

Laurent Dubois talks about his experience as a New Directions fellow and exploring the history of he banjo in the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation blog. read more about Laurent Dubois shares his experience as a New Directions Fellow »

Fahad Bishara

Third Book Prize for Fahad Bishara

Fahad Bishara, former PhD student in the department of history, has now won three book prizes for A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950  (... read more about Third Book Prize for Fahad Bishara »

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Graduate Program

We offer graduate training leading to the M.A. and Ph.D. in a wide range of fields, including Early America, Modern America, African-American, Colonial and Modern Latin America, Military, Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Modern Europe, British and British Empire, South Asia, Imperial and Soviet Russia, Traditional and Modern China, Modern Japan, Africa, History of Medicine, and History of Science and Technology.

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Undergraduate Program

We offer a Bachelor of Arts major where students can focus their studies in two ways: Thematic Concentrations to explore contemporary issue and themes from historical perspectives, and Geographic Concentrations to explore issues present in specific parts of the globe. A minor is also available.

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Featured Courses

  • Allain

    Gender and Slavery in the Americas

    HISTORY 213S

    Atlantic slave systems were gendered systems. Across lines of nation and empire, African-descended women and their reproductive labor were crucial to the formation of New World slave systems and the racial ideology that underwrote them....

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  • 160S

    Gateway Seminar: The Global Sixties: Race,...

    HISTORY 160S

    The 1960s in global context, focusing particularly on Europe, Latin America, and the United States. The rise of mass movements dedicated to racial, economic, and sexual justice, against the backdrop of Cold War and decolonization. The...

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  • gender economy

    Gateway Seminar: The Price of Sex- Gender and the...

    HISTORY 188S

    Explores how sex and gender have shaped economic policies and opportunities in different settings, particularly in the modern era (19th, 20th, and 21st centuries). Will focus on public policies and normative practices at the local,...

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  • health and healing Africa

    Health and Healing in Africa

    HISTORY 205

    Health and Healing in Africa. This course focuses on the ways in which African people have conceived of wellness and health. We will explore the diverse history of healing mechanisms that African people have employed, ranging from...

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  • The Romance Novel: History, Culture, and Form

    PUBLISHING & MKTG POP FICTION: Book...

    HISTORY 248S

    A case study of the US romance fiction industry and its global reach. The romance novel is the most popular form of fiction in the world. Its industry is powered by women, produces a product consumed by women, and exports to global...

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  • 264 flyer

    Latin American Wars of Independence

    HISTORY 264

    This course covers the conspiracies, uprisings, and wars that led to the independence of Haiti and the Latin American colonies of Spain and Portugal between 1780 and the 1898 withdrawal of Spain from Cuba. It focuses on the key military...

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  • 313 thorne Spring 19

    Crime and the City from Dickens to The Wire

    HISTORY 313

    Crime and the City from Dickens to The Wire. Compares representation of crime and the city in two key "texts": Charles Dickens's “Oliver Twist” and the HBO television series, “The Wire.” Juxtaposes the social and political contexts to...

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  • Modern america

    Making Modern America:The United States from 1898...

    HISTORY 342

    Transformations in society, politics, foreign relations, and arts and literature between Spanish-American War and World War II. Course pays particular attention to domestic politics in the Progressive Era; the Great Migration and the “...

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  • 365d

    The Modern Regulatory State

    HISTORY 365D

    The Modern Regulatory State. Interdisciplinary inquiry into the origins/evolution of modern regulatory institutions in Western Europe and North America, along with the more recent rise of global regulatory bodies. Examines conceptual...

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  • 374 gender

    Women, Gender, and Sexuality in U.S. History

    HISTORY 374

    Women, Gender, and Sexuality in U.S. History. CCI, CZ, EI, SS, W Major questions relating to women and women's place in society over the course of U.S. history, broadly defined, from the colonial period to the present: How did different...

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  • slavery and capitalism

    Slavery and Capitalism: The Political Economy of...

    HISTORY 390S.03

    This course traces the emergence of slavery as a mode of production in the 16th century and its relationship to the rise of modern or industrial capitalism in the nineteenth century United States and broader Atlantic world economy. The...

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  • care economies

    Rethinking Care Economies

    HISTORY 590S.01

    This course explores the economic nature of caring — including not only dependents and households but also communities, workplaces, and environments.  By taking an interdisciplinary, transnational approach to thinking about care labors...

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People

Malachi H. Hacohen
Malachi H. Hacohen
Professor of History

MALACHI HAIM HACOHEN (Ph.D., Columbia), Bass Fellow and Professor of History, Political Science and Religion, is Director of the Religions and... read more »

John D. French
John D. French
Professor of History

I am a professor of History and African and African-American Studies at Duke University in Durham North Carolina. With a B.A. from Amherst ... read more »

Martin A. Miller
Martin A. Miller
Professor with Tenure

Professor Miller's interests are in Modern Russian history, the history of psychoanalysis in Russia, and comparative and international terrorist... read more »

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Selected Works

Jacob & Esau book cover
Jacob & Esau

Malachi Hachohen

Language of the Game - Dubois
The Language of the Game: How to Understand Soccer

Laurent Dubois

Intimate Communities - Nicole Barnes
Intimate Communities: Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of...

Nicole Elizabeth Barnes

Beyond Regimes-Duara
Beyond Regimes: China and India Compared (Harvard...

Prasenjit Duara (co-editor)

Modern Catholic - James Chappel
Catholic Modern

James Chappel

The Merchant’s Tale: Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan
The Merchant's Tale Yokohama and the Transformation of...

Simon Partner

Terrestrial Lessons
Terrestrial Lessons

Sumathi Ramaswamy

International Women's Year
International Women's Year: The Greatest Consciousness...

Jocelyn Olcott

Democracy in Chains
Democracy in Chains

Nancy MacLean

Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff
Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff

Edward J. Balleisen

Arab Patriotism: The Ideology and Culture of Power in Late Ottoman Egypt
Arab Patriotism: The Ideology and Culture of Power in Late...

Adam Mestyan

Husain’s Raj Visions of Empire and Nation
Husain’s Raj Visions of Empire and Nation

Sumathi Ramaswamy

The Road Taken: The History and Future of America's Infrastructure
The Road Taken: The History and Future of America's...

Henry Petroski

Karl Popper
Karl Popper - The Formative Years, 1902-1945: Politics and...

Malachi Hacohen

Marrow of Tragedy: The Health Crisis of the American Civil War
Marrow of Tragedy: The Health Crisis of the American Civil...

Margaret Humphreys

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