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Ph.D. Program in History at The CUNY Graduate Center
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Our program is a major center for research and graduate training in a wide array of historical fields, spanning from ancient to contemporary times.

https://historyprogram.commons.gc.cuny.edu
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Ph.D. Program in History at The CUNY Graduate Center @historygc.bsky.social · 15d
🎖️🥂 You are invited to celebrate The National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York (which has been sponsoring a dissertation fellowship for over 50 years!) and this year’s 2026 Caroline Brown Educational Award recipient, David Pultz!
#GChistoryStudents #phdlife #fellowship
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NYC friends this is happening next Tuesday! Join this discussion about survivors and resilience then and now @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social #skystorians #medievalsky #RAINN
CUNY graduate center 6-730 October 13 conversation about Justice for Jehanne the tale of a medieval survivor
October 7, 2026 at 10:35 AM
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🎖️🥂 You are invited to celebrate The National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York (which has been sponsoring a dissertation fellowship for over 50 years!) and this year’s 2026 Caroline Brown Educational Award recipient, David Pultz!
#GChistoryStudents #phdlife #fellowship
September 23, 2026 at 1:52 PM
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historygc.bsky.social
📣Fifth Annual Judith S. Stein Lecture in Political Economy.
✨Speaker: Brian DeLay✨
November 12, 2026, 6:30 PM
📍Graduate Center, CUNY, Skylight Room

📍Hybrid event - RSVP:
📩In-Person: email [email protected]
💻Online: Register at bit.ly/Stein2026

@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
October 1, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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📣Help us spread the word: our Open House 2026 is coming!
See yourself in Grad School!

🗓️ November 4
⏰ 5:30 - 6:30 PM (Zoom)

🗓️ November 5 (in person)
⏰ 12:30 - 2:00 PM

💌 RSVP to [email protected]

@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @baruchhistory.bsky.social @historydeptbc.bsky.social
September 25, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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Please join us on October 14 at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social for a panel discussion on “AI and the Future of Education” co-sponsored by the CUNY AI Lab and moderated by CAIL co-founder @lukewaltzer.bsky.social. www.gc.cuny.edu/events/ai-an...
AI and the Future of Education
Elebash Recital Hall
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October 5, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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Missed the event? No problem! Watch “American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump - Kai Bird and Susan Goldmark in Conversation with Ken Auletta” - now on YouTube: youtu.be/aft2I8B7L-o @kaibirdbiographer.bsky.social @scribnerbooks.bsky.social
American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn Biography - Kai Bird, Susan Goldmark, and Ken Auletta
YouTube video by CUNY Graduate Center
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October 5, 2026 at 7:09 PM
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📣 Applications are open for Spring 2027!

🦋 Interested in studying international migration in NYC? Join the IMS program at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social!

📅 Apply by November 1, 2026 for Spring 2027 enrollment.

👉 Application info: gc.cuny.edu/admissions-aid/how-apply

#CUNY #NYC #MigrationStudies
October 3, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
Today we honor all teachers around the globe for their dedication and contribution to education. Thank you for continuing to support and inspire us everyday 💛
October 5, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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NOV 5TH! Join author David Reynolds in conversation with
@agordonreed.bsky.social to discuss his new book, Two Ships, at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social, and online. Register now! www.gc.cuny.edu/events/two-s...
Two Ships: Jamestown 1619, Plymouth 1620, and the Struggle for the Soul of America - David Reynolds in Conversation with Annette Gordon-Reed
Elebash Recital Hall
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October 5, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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✨ Yesterday's afternoon was delightful! Thank you to everyone who joined us for our first Fika of the semester (a special Swedish coffee break tradition 🍰🍪☕).
🥰 It was wonderful to see so many of you!
October 2, 2026 at 1:52 PM
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Healthy Body, Healthy Mind
thegraduatecenter.bsky.social CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 7d
Free Yoga at the Graduate Center! Take a break from your busy week and join us for yoga with instructor Michelle Morrison! Classes are every Tuesday on Zoom and Thursday in person (Room 5414), from 6:30–7:30 PM. All levels are welcome; no prior experience is needed! RSVP tinyurl.com/GradCenterYoga
October 1, 2026 at 6:13 PM
historygc.bsky.social
📣Fifth Annual Judith S. Stein Lecture in Political Economy.
✨Speaker: Brian DeLay✨
November 12, 2026, 6:30 PM
📍Graduate Center, CUNY, Skylight Room

📍Hybrid event - RSVP:
📩In-Person: email [email protected]
💻Online: Register at bit.ly/Stein2026

@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
October 1, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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A great event if you missed it watch it on YouTube www.youtube.com/gradcentercuny
September 25, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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📣Out now on #firstview!

Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri @chountisdefabbri.bsky.social @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social on 'The Many Lives of Edmund Burke: A Historiographical Review'

#History #Review #Politics #Thought #Evolution 📜 18thc 🗃️

👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
This historiographical review maps and scrutinizes the interpretative traditions that have grown around Edmund Burke’s thought since the 1790s, identifying three distinctive strands of criticism: the Victorian utilitarian/proto-liberal interpretation, the Namierite analysis of Burke, and the North American natural law tradition. It then turns to the recent archival and contextual scholarship that has largely superseded these schemata – the biographies of F. P. Lock and Richard Bourke, the analysis of J. G. A. Pocock, and the imperial and global perspectives of P. J. Marshall and others – which relocates Burke within the political crises and colonial contexts in which he wrote. This reorientation has been underpinned by the modern editorial projects behind his Correspondence and Writings and speeches. Rather than adjudicating who Burke was, the review traces how successive generations have read, reframed, and instrumentalized his prima facie contradictions, suggesting that his resistance to classification reflects less a defect in the literature than the enduring richness of its subject.
September 21, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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📣Help us spread the word: our Open House 2026 is coming!
See yourself in Grad School!

🗓️ November 4
⏰ 5:30 - 6:30 PM (Zoom)

🗓️ November 5 (in person)
⏰ 12:30 - 2:00 PM

💌 RSVP to [email protected]

@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @baruchhistory.bsky.social @historydeptbc.bsky.social
September 25, 2026 at 2:40 PM
historygc.bsky.social
🎖️🥂 You are invited to celebrate The National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York (which has been sponsoring a dissertation fellowship for over 50 years!) and this year’s 2026 Caroline Brown Educational Award recipient, David Pultz!
#GChistoryStudents #phdlife #fellowship
September 23, 2026 at 1:52 PM
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bencarp.bsky.social
Frederick Mackenzie still has the best description of the Fire of 1776. Today is the 250th anniversary of an event that says more about the American Revolution than we want to admit!

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
September 21, 2026 at 11:24 AM
historygc.bsky.social
Let's fika! You're invited to fika, a Swedish coffee break tradition. This is an informal gathering over coffee and baked goods 🍰🍪☕
We hope to see many of you there!

⏳October 1, 2026, at 3:30 pm, Room 5114 (History Lounge)
September 21, 2026 at 2:34 PM
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Now available worldwide, Ann Blair's In the Scholar’s Workshop introduces readers to the hidden hands behind history’s great scholarly works.

Learn more: buff.ly/zvTKSFY

#History
In the Scholar’s Workshop: Hidden Histories of Collaboration and Authorship by Ann Blair
September 16, 2026 at 7:10 AM
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minareeslibrary.bsky.social
Upcoming Science Workshop: Intro to Zotero for Citation Management 📚

Tuesday, September 29
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Register @ tinyurl.com/4w3sm2xu

#cunygraduatecenter #cunylibraries #academiclibrary #minareeslibrary #zotero
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September 15, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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This is tonight! So looking forward to talking to @sarannmcd.bsky.social about her revelatory new book.
princetonupress.bsky.social Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 24d
Tomorrow (Sept 15) at 6:00 pm EDT, see @sarannmcd.bsky.social, author of Justice for Jehanne, at The New York Public Library! She will discuss her spellbinding narrative history, in conversation with award-winning author @sarahweinman.com.

Register for this free, hybrid event here: buff.ly/TAGWTBP
Conversations from the Cullman Center presents Justice for Jehanne: The Tale of a Medieval Survivor by Sara McDougall. with Sarah Weinman. Tuesday, September 15th, 6pm. The New York Public Library - Stephan A. Schwarzman Building. Berger Forum. Presented in partnership with the Women Writing Women's Lives Biography Seminar.
September 15, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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Took a little while, but the June issue of Diplomatic History is officially online--and coming soon to a mailbox near you!

academic.oup.com/dh/issue/50/3
September 15, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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Join us for a discussion on “Youth, Power, and Social Media in Cuba” featuring new research on Cuban state repression of young people.

🗓️ Wednesday, Sept. 23 at 6 PM
📍 Room 9205, @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

RSVP at [email protected]

Co-organizer: Ciudadanía y Libertad
September 15, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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minareeslibrary.bsky.social
Upcoming Online Workshop:
Introduction to Zotero 📌

Monday, September 28
6:00pm-7:00pm

Join @ tinyurl.com/4zjtz9jz

Zotero is open source citation software enabling users to easily collect, organize, cite and share.

#academiclibraries #zotero #cunylibraries #citationmanagement #cunygraduatecenter
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September 14, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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Congratulations to alumnus and foundation board member Brian Jones, who won the 2026 George Orwell Award for his book, “Black History Is for Everyone”! ncte.org/blog/2026/09...
September 14, 2026 at 7:10 PM