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Spring 2025 Electives

Peruse our facinating elective offerings for the coming semester in the History Department’s Spring 2025 Course Catalog hot off the press!

Congratulations to Prof. Johanna Fernandez and Prof. Vince DiGirolamo!

Prof. Johanna Fernandez recently won the prestigious Organization of American Historians’ Turner award for her 2020 book The Young Lords: A Radical History.  She also received the OAH’s Liberty Legacy Foundation Award.

2020 OAH Turner Prize winner Prof. Vincent DiGirolamo has received another accolade for Crying the News: A History of America’s Newsboys: the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era’s Vincent P. DeSantis Award. He will give a talk for SHGAPE on May 12. Register here.

Congratulations to Profs. Fernandez and DiGirolamo!

Accolades for Professor Vincent DiGirolamo’s new book

Prof. Vincent DiGirolamo’s new book Crying the News: A History of America’s Newsboys has won the Organization of American Historians’ 2020 Frederick Jackson Turner Award. Prof. DiGirolamo also received the 2020 Baruch College Presidential Excellence Award for Distinguished Scholarship. The Wall Street Journal recently reviewed the book as well.