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Johns Hopkins University. Department of History

 Organization

Dates

  • Existence: 1876-

Biography

The study of history at Johns Hopkins began with the university's founding in 1876. The Hopkins history department has the oldest PhD program in the United States.

Dr. John Marshall joined the faculty in 1997 and was appointed chair of the department in 2013.

Source: http://history.jhu.edu Source: Lisa Enders, Department Administrator

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

John G. A. Pocock papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0425
Abstract

This collection contains lectures, speeches and writings; reprints; book manuscripts; and the conference papers of John G. A. Pocock, a historian of political thought and professor emeritus at Johns Hopkins University. His papers spans the years of 1962 to 2017, with the majority of the materials dating from Pocock's time at Hopkins. This holding notably includes his handwritten manuscripts of Barbarism and Religion (1999).

Dates: 1962-2017

John Higham papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0358
Abstract

John Higham was a historian and professor at Johns Hopkins University with a principal field of interest in American social and intellectual history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The collection consists of holographic course notes, outlines, examination booklets, and other assignments completed during his undergraduate years at The Johns Hopkins University, 1937-1939, as well as material relating to Dr. Higham's teaching and writing career.

Dates: 1937-1990s

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