Georgetown University History Department

09/09/2025

We're now on instagram! Follow us there to see news about GU History faculty and staff and info about upcoming events hosted by the Georgetown Institute for Global History.

04/20/2023

Important new center headed by very own Professor Adam Rothman.

Georgetown has launched its Center for the Study of Slavery and Its Legacies to deepen its research, public programming and interdisciplinary collaboration on the history of enslavement and its imprint.

10/13/2021

Great turn-out for our first majors luncheon. Thanks to the students (and faculty) who showed up and to Kelvin and Jan for helping organize it all. We'll do another one next semester!

10/15/2020

Come learn about the History Major or Minor at Georgetown! Tomorrow, October 16, 11am-Noon. RSVP through the google form for zoom link: https://forms.gle/7XSnpUbvSKXQ1m7q9

02/20/2020

Professor Chandra Manning's History 396 project has been featured on the website of the Organization of American Historians, which also links to the digital project they created, Some of the students from the class will be presenting their work April 14th as part of the Why History Matters series (more info on that later). All showing the exciting things our students and faculty are doing!

Click on the image above to see the complete project. In antebellum Washington, D.C., an active slave trade flourished until 1850 and slavery itself pe...

09/27/2019

Come talk to me about the major — and get a free book!

04/23/2019

Congratulations to Dr. Marcia Chatelain!

Georgetown College history and African American studies professor Marcia Chatelain will use her 2019 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship toward her next book, The Scholarship Kid: A Social History of Higher Education and Inequality in America.

03/25/2019

Come join us for another in our Why History Matters series: Blackface in History, April 3, 5-7pm. Roundtable participants include Department chair Dr. Bryan McCann, Dr. Henriette Rahusen, grad students Luke Frederick and Idun Hauge, and senior history honors student, Marcus Lustig. Please RSVP here: https://forms.gle/9wMNGRnECCGb9UXq6

02/11/2019

Nice write-up about our event last week. Thank you to everyone who presented and attended.