History News and Updates

Professor Etefa's new book, The Origins of Ethnic Conflict in Africa: Politics and Violence in Darfur, Oromia, and the Tana Delta, is out now.

Four History alumni returned to Colgate to share their experiences and insights of where their degree has taken them.

Yunte Huang, author and Professor of English at the University of California at Santa Barbara, visits Colgate for lecture “Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History.”

History Major Anna Pluff '20 takes a trip to the University of Bath Archives for thesis research during the London History Study Group.

Professor Hull gives lecture, "The Original Co-eds: The Hamilton Female Seminary and Women at Colgate, 1855-1895," as part of the Division of Social Sciences Luncheon Seminar Series and the Colgate Bicentennial celebration.

Meet Ivan Douglas a two month old kitten. He likes flowers, ukuleles, cat food, and of course history and historians!

For the first History Conversation of the semester, Professor Andy Rotter spoke about his experience teaching inmates at the Mohawk Correctional Facility.

Professor Robinson's upcoming book is featured in a Colgate News article.

Lauren Fairman '18 shares her experiences working at the Historical Society in Brooksville, Maine.

His book Black New Jersey, 1664 to the present day uncovers 350 years of slavery and its legacies among the fifth largest black population in the United States.