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05/12/2026
Please join us in celebrating 32 years of teaching, service and dedication to the department and UNCG. Dr. Lisa Tolbert will be missed! Enjoy your well deserved retirement!
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05/08/2026
What a night for the UNCG History Department! We celebrated 4 PhD recipients, 16 Masters students, 76 BA students, 30 award winners and 2 new Phi Alpha Theta initiates. We welcomed back a former PhD student, Dr. Sarah McCartney, to give the Commencement Address and enjoyed conversation and cookies. Congratulations and good luck to all of those stepping out into new adventures. Keep us posted on all you accomplish.🎓💙💛
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05/07/2026
We can't wait to celebrate all of our graduates and award winners! See you there!
05/04/2026
This past Thursday our graduating MA students and a couple of PhD students presented their research at our annual graduate student conference. Congratulations to the students and their faculty mentors who shared their research!
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Congratulations to two more History Ph.D. students defending their dissertations this week!
Jeanna DeVita, “By education we may know”: Cherokee Women Educated at Salem Academy in the Early Nineteenth Century. Advisor: O'Brien. Mon 4/27/2026 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, MHRA 2120
Kaitlyn Williams Anderson, "Slavery and Salt: Industry, Labor, and Politics in the Kanawha Valley." Advisor: Jennison. Thu 4/30/2026 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, MHRA 2120
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04/24/2026
How does history shape the war in Ukraine and how does the war shape history? Come to this event next Tuesday to find out!
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04/22/2026
Congratulations to the 10 UNCG History graduate students who presented at the 2026 North Carolina Association of Historians Conference in Elizabeth City in late March!
https://www.nchistorians.org/2026-program/
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04/22/2026
04/21/2026
Congratulations to our colleague Dr. Lisa Levenstein for this editorial in the New York Times!
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Opinion | You Can’t Defend a Nation When Soldiers Don’t Have Child Care (Gift Article) Trump wants to pay for the military, not child care. History shows that the armed services are at their best only when soldiers’ kids are cared for.
04/17/2026
History graduate students vs. Faculty in Trivia next Friday!
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