Congratulations to recent Ph.D. graduates Wen Yu and Mou Banerjee.

The Gross Prize is awarded to the Ph.D. recipient whose dissertation “gives great promise of a distinguished career of historical research.” 

Wen Yu...

Richard Pipes, the Frank B Baird, Jr Professor of History, Emeritus, at Harvard University, born July 11, 1923, died this morning, May 17, in the Boston area.

Born in Poland, Professor Pipes arrived in the United States as a refugee from the Nazis in 1940. He served in U.S. Army Air Corps, where he learned Russian, and entered Harvard as a graduate student in 1946, staying at the university until his retirement in 1996. His speciality was imperial Russian history and the...

Warm congratulations to Nick Barber, Rebecca Brooks, Gil Highet, Raya Koreh, Blake Paterson, and Theo Serlin on their Hoopes Prizes for their senior theses in History!

From the Harvard Crimson:

"Seventy-three undergraduates learned Thursday they had won the 2018 Thomas T. Hoopes Prize, awarded annually for outstanding scholarly work or...