History Spotlight

Here is just a sample of the recent accomplishments of our faculty and students.

Nicole Eustace
Nicole Eustace

Nicole Eustace's "Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America" (Liveright) has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

Anne O'Donnell
Anne O'Donnell

Anne O'Donnell's "Power and Possession in the Russian Revolution" (Princeton University Press) has been awarded the Ed A. Hewett Book Prize.

Larry Wolff
Larry Wolff

Larry Wolff's "The Shadow of the Empress" (Stanford) has won the Kurt Weill Prize.

Jennifer Morgan
Jennifer Morgan

Jennifer Morgan has been named a 2024 MacArthur Fellow.

Alumni Books

Explore books authored by NYU History alumni.

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Mara Yue Du, PhD 2017

State and Family in China: Filial Piety and Its Modern Reform

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Thomas Fleischman, PhD 2013

Communist Pigs: An Animal History of East Germany's Rise and Fall

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Cody Ewert, PhD 2018

Making Schools American: Nationalism and the Origin of Modern School Politics