Welcome to the History Department at the University of Cincinnati where we strive for inclusive excellence in our teaching, writing, research, and community engagement. The faculty, staff and students in our department are committed to supporting racial justice and equity in our local community, state, country and in the world. Studying the past is vitally necessary to understanding the ongoing inequities in our society and societies throughout the world that we have seen magnified by the Covid-19 pandemic and by the more recent killing of unarmed African American men and women by law enforcement, as well as by ongoing acts of violence and bigotry against other racial and religious minorities in the U.S. It might be helpful and indeed necessary to share recent statements put forth by the American Historical Association (AHA) and the National Council on Public History (NCPH) focusing on the history of racist violence in the United States. These statements also include links to other resources that faculty and students alike might find instructive. Now more than ever, we need to understand the history of the present; and the history of the present is all about the past.
Shailaja Paik, PhD, from UC's College of Arts and Sciences, has been named a MacArthur Fellow. She is only one of 10 MacArthur Fellows to be named in Ohio and the first ever in both the city of Cincinnati and the University of Cincinnati.
The University of Cincinnati Department of History and Center for the City are pleased to announce the 2024-2025 Zane L. Miller Symposium featuring pioneering social psychiatrist Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove.
Professors Jeff Zalar and Willard Sunderland conducted a review of Ridley Scott’s newly released historical epic “Napoleon” (2023).
Read Dr. Zalar and Sunderland's review for "Napoleon" (2023)
Department of History
360 Arts & Sciences Hall
PO Box 210373
2700 Campus Way
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0373
Phone | (513) 556-2144
December 12, 2024
Director of Public History Rebecca Wingo’s work with the Wyandot Nation began with a misleading historical marker. Wingo was working on learning more about Native American history in preparation for an undergraduate Native American History course when she came upon a historical marker about the Wyandot tribe in Sandusky, Ohio. “The Wyandot were the last tribe removed from the state of Ohio in 1843,” Wingo says. “But the historic marker says the ‘departure’ of the Wyandot, and that they went on a one week ‘journey’ to Cincinnati, where they boarded steamboats and headed out to Kansas City which, at the time, was called Wyandotte City because they owned it. I thought that was a really terrible historic marker, so I contacted the cultural division of Wyandot nation.”
Event: December 6, 2024 3:00 PM
UC's School of Environment and Sustainability will host the fourth-annual Environmental Justice and Advocacy Symposium.
October 30, 2024
UC history Professor David Stradling tells WVXU that projects that make biking and walking easier in Cincinnati create a healthier environment for residents.
