History
Flax to Linen Project Weaves History With Experience
The path to a deeper understanding of rural New England’s pre-industrial textile economy begins in a muddy field on the edge of UNH’s Woodman Horticultural Research Farm. There, a historian and an agriculture professor, along with students in UNH’s museum studies program, have joined forces for an... Read More-
04/07/23
Center for the Humanities Awards Five New Hayes Fellowships
Faculty research will focus on New Hampshire’s history, culture and government. -
01/27/23
Passings: Professor Emeritus of History Douglas Wheeler
UNH mourns the loss of a "true gentleman." -
12/20/22
On the Bookshelf and Streaming
A year-end roundup of books and recordings published by College of Liberal Arts faculty. -
Recent Stories
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09/03/14 - UNH Hosts World-Renowned Presidential Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin Sept. 29Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin will speak as part of the Rutman Distinguished Lecture Series on the American Presidency at the Âé¶¹app... Read More
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06/19/14 - Growing HistoryOn a late winter day, Erik Wochholz '01,'07 strolls through a Victorian glasshouse at the Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth. He squashes a mealybug on an African tree fern,... Read More
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03/05/14 - American History Rocks in ManchesterWhether he is inspiring students in his classes about the 1960s through the prism of popular culture and social movements, making a lasting scholarly contribution to the field of... Read More
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02/13/14 - UNH Historian Recounts Effort to Regulate Whaling Industry in New BookBefore commercial whaling was outlawed in the 1980s, diplomats, scientists, bureaucrats, environmentalists, and sometimes even whalers themselves attempted to create an... Read More
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02/03/14 - Train WreckMachine shop janitor Augustus Stevens was in Hewitt Hall, ï¬nishing preparations for the biennial visit of the state Legislature, when he heard it: the high-speed rumble of an... Read More
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12/19/13 - In Their Own WordsHistory professor Jeff Bolster at the helm. View his video below. For this scholar of maritime history, grooming graduate students for careers in history has been highly... Read More
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11/21/13 - For the People(l to r) Jim Conant, Matthew Broderick, and Sean Conant (© 2013 RISING PICTURE COMPANY) What started out as a father-son quest to view all five copies of the Gettysburg Address... Read More
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11/14/13 - JFK Movie Based on UNH Historian’s Book Premieres on TLCLetters to Jackie, Official Trailer The movie about President John F. Kennedy based on the book “Letters to Jackie: Condolences From a Grieving Nation†by Ellen Fitzpatrick,... Read More
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09/26/13 - UNH Welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning AuthorPulitzer Prize winner and author Robert Caro, who has written extensively on the life and presidency of President Lyndon B. Johnson, will give the inaugural Rutman Distinguished... Read More