The history behind International Women’s Day A march through Petrograd on March 8, 1917, the inaugural year for International Women’s Day. Q&A The history behind International Women’s Day Kristen R. Ghodsee, professor of Russian and East European studies, talks to Penn Today about the global holiday’s history, and why America has been late to embrace it.
Penn’s pioneering mathematicians Penn’s pioneering mathematicians Two of the first African Americans to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, Dudley Weldon Woodard and William Waldron Schieffelin Claytor worked on fundamental problems in the field of topology and supported graduate-level math education for minority students.
African Americans have been blocked from voting, but the Black vote is not a ‘bloc’ nocred African Americans have been blocked from voting, but the Black vote is not a ‘bloc’ Black History Month’s theme for 2020 is African Americans and the Vote. Three Penn scholars define what the “Black vote” means when viewed through history, and what it doesn’t mean when viewed as an indivisible bloc.
Karen Tani named a Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor Karen Tani named a Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor Karen Tani has been named the University of Pennsylvania’s 24th Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor, effective July 1. The announcement was made today by President Amy Gutmann and Provost Wendell Pritchett.
A hallmark year in voting history A vintage suffrage banner from the early 20th century. (Image: Birmingham Museums Trust) Q&A A hallmark year in voting history This year marks the centennial of the 19th Amendment as well as the bicentennial of Susan B. Anthony’s birth. Penn experts reflect on Anthony’s legacy and voting rights today.
The Amish and the Anthropocene The Amish and the Anthropocene Nicole Welk-Joerger, a doctoral candidate in the Department of History and Sociology of Science, discusses what a technology adopted by the Amish can tell us about climate change and the future.
Putting Black history lessons into action Putting Black history lessons into action Five GSE doctoral students and participants in Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action share the Black history they wish they learned in school.
Amy Offner traces the roots of neoliberalism in Latin America Amy Offner traces the roots of neoliberalism in Latin America Decades of negative media attention have reinforced Colombia’s reputation as a violent region controlled by drug cartels. Amy Offner views the nation through a much different lens.
Remembering Auschwitz, with eyes on the present Children liberated in the Auschwitz concentration camp, 1945. Remembering Auschwitz, with eyes on the present On the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, scholars and experts share their thoughts in light of the recent rise in anti-Semitism.
Prohibition was a failed experiment in moral governance Penn In the News The Atlantic Prohibition was a failed experiment in moral governance Samuel Freeman of the School of Arts and Sciences and Law School spoke about the “failed experiment” of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. constitution, which installed Prohibition, calling it “an amendment that had to do with a matter of private morality [that] didn’t work.”