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Check out some of the books recently published (or forthcoming) by Rutgers History faculty members. For a full list of faculty publications, visit this page.

Jochen Hellbeck, World Enemy No. 1: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the Jews (Penguin Press, 2025)
Tatiana Seijas, American Metropolis: The Making of Mexico City (Cambridge University Press, 2026)
Julia Stevens, Worldly Afterlives: Tracing Family Trails Between India and Empire (Princeton University Press, 2025)
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The “History Workshop” (506:299) course forms a core part of Rutgers undergraduate History majors’ training in historical methods and the historian’s craft. Students learn the basics of what constitutes a historical archive, how to locate and analyze primary sources, and how to synthesize these sources alongside secondary literature. While the themes of each History Workshop class vary according to the professor’s research interests, all sections provide students with a solid foundation in...

Rutgers undergraduate History major Lily Barber '28 draws on textiles, photography, and archival work in a new photobook entitled, The Douglass Ghosts, which chronicles the history of Douglass campus. Check out this blog post that spotlights Lily's exciting work: https://douglass.rutgers.edu/news/douglass-ghosts-students-look-douglass-past.

What happens when best friends and history majors study abroad in London for a semester?
A LOT!

Gianna Rosa (RU ‘25) History major, Philosophy minor
Melissa Marvinny, (RU ‘25), History major

Melissa and Gianna

How and when did you first get to know each other at Rutgers?

We met each other in our Honors College Forum class and bonded over our shared interest in History in a History class (Ancient and Medieval Europe, 510:101) during our Freshman year.

Melissa’s favorite courses in London:

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Mission
Statement:

Old Queens is a student-run digital journal dedicated to allowing undergraduate students of all majors to have their historical essays published. Students will have a chance to be recognized for their work, discover the publishing process, and improve their historical writing skills.

We encourage students to submit their work not just from history classes they have taken, but any class in which they have taken a historical approach to topics in the humanities, social...

Forty-Eighth Annual Susman Conference Bearing Witness, Challenging Myth:
Imperial Pasts and Fascist Presents

Friday, March 27, 2026
Van Dyck Hall, Rutgers University-New Brunswick

To register for the conference, click here.

Access the conference schedule here.

Please join us after the conference for a keynote lecture delivered by Dr. Joseph Kaplan (Ph.D. Rutgers University, 2024), Visiting Professor of African American History, Berea College. Dr. Kaplan's research focuses on the New York...