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Thursday, July 1, 2021

Welcome to our new Chair & new Associate Chair, Undergraduate!

The Department of History welcomes two new leadership roles today: Professor Dan Gorman is the new Chair, and Professor Andrew Hunt is the new Associate Chair – Undergraduate. Professor Susan Roy continues in her role as the Associate Chair – Graduate.

Monday, May 3, 2021

History's Anti-Racism Taskforce has launched!

History students, staff, faculty and instructors have come together to respond to racism on campus and in our world to form the History Anti-Racism Taskforce (HART).

Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Marking Remembrance Day

A person holding a wartime log from World War Two

Read about how our students and faculty are honouring the sacrifices of Canadians in war through research.

Friday, July 31, 2020

History's Archives Unleashed Project scales up with Archive-It

Photo: Internet Archive servers (by Ian Milligan).

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded an over $1,000,000 CAD grant to the University of Waterloo to support the “Integrating Archives Unleashed Cloud with Archive-It” project led by Professor Ian Milligan. Read more about the project in this Arts story or in this article in the Waterloo Region Record: "Waterloo Researchers land $1 million grant for early internet archival project."