Recent Undergraduate News in History
WashU History undergraduates are finding new ways to deepen their research and share their work with the wider community.
Undergrad Francisco Perez Organizes Lecture at the Missouri Historical Society
Francisco Perez, an undergraduate in history, organized a lecture at the Missouri Historical Society
Q&A with Living History Scholars
We interviewed the 2026 living history scholars, Calvin Crossland and Jennifer Ong.
Ben Wexler Receives Hamburg Stipendium for Summer 2027 Research
Graduate student Ben Wexler has been awarded the Hamburg Stipendium – Writing in Residence 2027.
How I chose my major: Calvin Crossland
Senior Calvin Crossland found a balance between passion and practicality by pursuing majors in economics and history, two disciplines that help him understand how the world works and how it came to be.
Grounded analysis: The history of electricity in Mexico City
William Greenleaf Eliot was not an abolitionist | STLPR
16th-century German humanists, assemble! Constructing a multi-century genealogy of knowledge
Christine Johnson quoted in "The American Prospect" about how the Black Death made life better
How to constitute a nation
History majors write about William Greenleaf Eliot in Student Life
Alum to discuss podcast "My Fugitive" at St. Louis International Film Festival
Mustakeem to give book talk on "Slavery at Sea"
Flowe wins Littleton-Griswold Prize for “Uncontrollable Blackness”
Mustakeem joins historian lectureship program
Twenty Years After 9/11: History Repeats Itself
