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History

  1. Peace Pole

    The Legacy of the War in Iraq 20 Years Later is the Focus of Peace and Justice Week at Manhattan College

    This year’s programming will help students gain a better understanding of the war’s legacy and continued relevance today.  

  2. stained glass window showing holy nativity scene on Christmas

    Merry Christmas from Manhattan University

    From all of us at Manhattan University, we wish you a Merry Christmas, blessed New Year, and a happy and healthy holiday season. 

  3. Eunice Nazar at the Spring Honors Convocation

    Eunice Nazar ’22 Receives Joseph J. Gunn ’30 Medal

    Nazar has spent her four years in college serving others and excelling academically.

  4. Campus in springtime

    Digital Arts and Humanities Program Flourishing at Manhattan College

    Maeve Adams, Ph.D., and Adam Arenson, Ph.D., are helping other faculty members. develop their own digital humanities programs.

  5. Portrait photo of Lindsay Chervinsky

    Lindsay Chervinsky to Deliver Annual Christen Lecture on George Washington’s Cabinet

    Chervinsky will speak about the importance of our first president’s Cabinet and what those precedents mean today.

  6. Portrait photo of Paul Droubie

    What do the Olympics Mean to Japan? History Professor Paul Droubie Explains

    Droubie has been a go-to scholar on the history of the Olympics in Japan.

  7. Portrait photo of Eunice Nazar

    Eunice Nazar ’22 Named One of 212 Newman Civic Fellows Nationwide

    Nazar has interned at Mekong NYC in support of the Bronx community.

  8. Portrait photo of Julie Leinginer Pycior

    Julie Leininger Pycior, Ph.D. to Deliver Annual Dorothy Day Lecture

    The Manhattan College professor emeritus will reflect on Day’s life on November 8.

  9. Photograph of Professor Adam Arenson smiling.

    Adam Arenson, Ph.D., to Receive 2020 Costello Excellence in Teaching Award

    Adam Arenson, Ph.D., professor of history and director of the Urban Studies program at Manhattan College, has been selected as the recipient of the 2020 Costello Award for Excellence in Teaching.

  10. Olympics rings

    Japan Historian Paul Droubie on the Future of 2020 Olympics in Tokyo

    Coronavirus may cause the 2020 Summer Olympics to be postponed or canceled.

  11. Barrio America book cover

    Urban Studies Annual Lecture to Focus on How Latino Immigrants Revitalized American Cities

    A.K. Sandoval-Strausz, author of Barrio America, will speak on campus on February 27.

  12. Photo of campus quadrangle with fall colors

    Margaret Scull to Discuss Religious and Political Structures in Northern Ireland

    Scull will examine the 'soft power' influence religious leaders still possessed in British and Irish politics after the Second World War.

  13. The audience at the 2018 Costello Lecture

    Costello Lecture Event Includes Mack Holt Lecture, Award Presentation

    Mehnaz Afridi, Ph.D., will receive the Costello Excellence in Teaching Award.

  14. Tyler McCloskey portrait photo

    Academic Intersections

    Manhattan’s latest interdisciplinary projects highlight the many upsides to crossing academic lines.

  15. Rob Walsh, Vincent Wiedemann and Brother Dan Gardner on quadrangle

    Vincent Wiedemann ’19 Selected to Join NYC Neighborhood 360° Fellowship Program

    Wiedemann will learn about commercial revitalization and develop leadership skills.

  16. Susan Gallardo looking at pile of garbage

    Upcoming Urban Studies Lecture Focuses on Managing City Pollution

    Susan Gallardo will discuss her work in Asia on Monday, April 8.

  17. Students in virtual reality room

    Digital Arts and Humanities Program Combines Liberal Arts and Tech

    The minor is designed to create critical thinkers for the digital age.

  18. Students working on ESPN equipment in Bristol

    ESPN Mobile Unit Gives Sports Media Production Students a New Classroom

    Students will produce live Manhattan College sporting events beginning with the 2019-20 basketball season.

  19. Adam Arenson pointing to headstone in Drake Park

    Manhattan College Students Studying History of Slavery in the Bronx

    Students are learning about little-known areas in their backyard.

  20. Headshot of S. Max Edelson

    Christen Program to Explore How Britain Imagined America Before 1776

    University of Virginia history professor S. Max Edelson will discuss the colonial period on Monday, Feb. 4.

  21. 300 years of the Lasallian Mission

    Celebrating 300 Years of the Lasallian Mission

    The Manhattan College community dedicates a community artwork to commemorate the life and legacy of St. John Baptist de La Salle for the Tercentenary.

  22. Students at rooftop garden on parking lot top level.

    Reilly Rebhahn’s Community Service Leads to Newman Civic Fellowship

    A history and peace studies major, Rebhahn is an active leader on campus.

  23. Becky Nicolaides in suburban setting

    Urban Studies Historian to Examine Changes in Suburbia

    On March 22, Becky Nicolaides, Ph.D., will discuss the contours of change in diversifying suburbia.

  24. Female student looking at screen.

    Women's Week at Manhattan College

    From March 18 - 24, the College will host a series of events that aim to address women's issues worldwide, and empower women in their personal and professional lives.

  25. Semester in New York City

    Urban Studies Program Launches Semester in New York

    Starting in the spring of 2018, the College will offer a study-away Semester in New York City program for students from across the country.

  26. alumni of the branigan scholars grant program

    One Summer, Infinite Rewards

    Alumni of the College’s Branigan Scholars Grant program remember the projects that helped shape their career paths.

  27. John Evans

    John Evans ’17 Receives Carty Valedictory Medal, Addresses Class of 2017

    Blind since the age of 5, Evans is a published author and graduated with an English major, a history minor and a medieval studies minor.

  28. Manhattan College campus

    College Hosts Discussion on Impact of Trauma on the Bronx Cambodian-American Community

    On Thursday, Feb. 16, Joyce Wong, Khamarin Nhann and Nuwan Jayawickreme will speak on the impact of genocide and migration.

  29. Hamilton on Broadway

    Joanne Freeman Discusses Hamilton: The Man, the Myth, the Musical at Annual Christen Lecture

    Yale University professor of history will examine Alexander Hamilton’s life and legacy.

  30. Students attending panel

    Medieval Scholar Examines Unlikely Reflections at 15th Annual Costello Lecture

    What do a saint and a heretic have in common? Plenty, according to Sean L. Field, Ph.D.

  31. Paul Droubie

    With Tokyo 2020 on the Horizon, History Professor Shares Expertise on Japan’s Olympic History

    After the Rio Games, media interested in the next Summer Games have turned to Manhattan College’s Paul Droubie, Ph.D.

  32. betty draper

    History Major Plots the Portrayal of Women

    History major Kimberly Hickey ’16 set out to investigate the disappearance of Rosie the Riveter by researching the portrayal of women in advertising from 1950-1959.

  33. Meghan Roberts

    Meghan Roberts, Ph.D., to Deliver 14th Annual Costello Lecture

    Roberts will deliver a lecture titled “Savant Spouses: Love, Marriage and Collaboration in Enlightenment France.”

  34. Jennifer Edwards

    History Professor Jennifer Edwards Receives the 2015 William Koren, Jr. Prize

    Edwards honored for article in the Journal of Medieval History.

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    Expert in Native American Archaeology to Present Christen Lecture on March 30

    Kevin McBride, Ph.D., will discuss battlefield archeology of the Pequot War.

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    Professor Publishes Book on Economic Development in Early Modern France

    Historian Jeff Horn releases fifth book, Economic Development in Early Modern France: The Privilege of Liberty, 1650-1820.

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    One Hundred and Fifty Years Since the Civil War, Manhattan College Looks Back

    2015 marks the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War, and Manhattan College shares a piece of its history.

  38. Manhattan College

    Visiting Scholar Caroline Bruzelius to Speak at Manhattan College on Sept. 29

    Duke University art history professor is part of Phi Beta Kappa’s Visiting Scholar Program in conjunction with the Costello Lecture Series.

  39. History Professor Julie Pycior

    History Professor Julie Leininger PyciorPublishes Book on Mexican-American Activism

    Award-winning author and historical adviser releases new book.

  40. NYC flowers

    History Major Facilitates Interfaith Learning in Lower Manhattan

    Courtney Slack ’14, a 2013 intern at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, spent a semester teaching 20th century Jewish history and the Holocaust to New York City youth.

  41. campus shot

    Huffington Post Religion Editor to Speak at Manhattan College

    Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush will discuss the crucially important issue of how religion is covered by the media.

  42. Carol Berkin

    Esteemed American Revolution Scholar to Deliver Christen Lecture at Manhattan College

    Carol Berkin will address the role of women during U.S. Revolution on April 8