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Tindal named director of Harvard Museums of Science and Culture
History and Africana Studies graduate and a former Visiting Lecturer
   April 14, 2021

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/04/tindal-named-director-of-harvard-museums-of-science-culture/
Volume 7: The Central Powers In Russia's Great War And Revolution: Enemy Visions And Encounters, 1914-22
A book edited by John Deak, Heather R. Perry and Emre Sencer
   August 28, 2020

This volume brings together the work of researchers in North America, Central and Eastern Europe, and Turkey, who are generating important, archivally based scholarship in their respective fields, languages, and nations of study. The larger goal of this volume is to sit in conversation with the others in this series that directly deal with Russia and its Great War and Revolution. Therefore, the volume provides an entry point for scholars who need a quick assessment of recent historiographic perspectives from the “other side of the hill.”
Hiding in Plain Sight Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic
A book by Erika Denise Edwards
   June 16, 2020

http://www.uapress.ua.edu/product/Hiding-in-Plain-Sight,7299.aspx
Department Statement of Solidarity
   June 11, 2020

Department Statement of Solidarity

     We, the faculty of the Department of History at UNC Charlotte, reacting with grief and anger at the recent killing of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, combined with subsequent events, feel compelled to offer the following statement to our faculty and staff, as well as to our students, friends, and the broader community. We do not habitually issue such statements in response to specific episodes of tragedy and injustice.  However, we believe that the current situation is so overwhelmingly serious that...
PROFESSOR RECEIVES PRIZE FOR ‘BEST BOOK IN MODERN FRENCH HISTORY’
A book by UNC Charlotte History professor Christine Haynes
   January 28, 2020

A book by UNC Charlotte History professor Christine Haynes has been chosen the best in modern French history (post 1815) over the previous two years, receiving the inaugural Weber Book Prize from the UCLA Department of History.

The Eugen Weber Book Prize in French History is a biennial prize that is named for the eminent French historian Eugen Weber (1925-2007) and includes a cash award of $15,000. The prize was announced at the American Historical Association annual meeting in January in New York City. Haynes will receive the award formally in May when she delivers a talk at UCLA...