Lehigh University History Department

06/29/2026

https://pghrev.com/reading-vertically-and-horizontally-with-carlo-ginzburg/?fbclid=IwY2xjawSvduVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeDIVV1OneQsMyNNlMRXR8xMethRMV7rlbEO9EfMX4KnCPuN3dKex418krHgw_aem_ns0ZjYRNVPhV2QW5CKE5cw

When I began my studies at UCLA, my more advanced friends couldn’t stop talking about Carlo Ginzburg. He was their image of the total intellectual. One would

05/13/2026

A wonderful article about one of our History Majors!

Lehigh University history student Jack Ciavolella evaluates England’s political divisions that fueled a long period of defeats.

05/03/2026

This week, graduate students Ian Collins and Ben Goldman presented and commented at the "Never Always Again" conference at Clark University, with generous funding offered by Lehigh University Berman Center, clarku.edu/holocaust-and-genocide-studies/ and Lehigh University College of Arts and Sciences. In the photo, Ian is commenting on the Bosnian-American author Aleksander Hemon's presentation.

04/20/2026

This photo is from a recent field trip and was taken in front of the original mine shaft inside the No. 9 Coal Mine in Lansford PA. The group include Prof Owain Lawson and students from HIST/EVST 108 Climate & Energy in Modern History: Drew Bigley, Laney Bort, Luis Felipe Dominguez, and Luke Reilly.

04/16/2026

Prof Owain Lawson lectures about Empire, Oil, and the Gulf

04/09/2026

Today, Timothy Betz successfully defended his dissertation: “Empire of Things: Imperial Collecting in the Spanish Empire”. Pictured here with his advisor, Maria Barbara Zepeda Cortes, and committee members, Bill Bulman and Kwame Essien.  external committee member Matthew Restall (Penn State)is not pictured.
Congratulations to Tim!