History News
- Professor Nicola Miller steps down as Head of Department
- Summer Roll of Honours
- 'The vicissitudes of recognition'; Axel Honneth's keynote lecture at Rousseau 300
- New UCL MA degrees in the Americas
- Lecturer in Latin American History
- Chair in Modern British History
- Lecturer in US History
- UCL History Reaches Out to State Schools
- UCL Historian Turns 100
- Mini-Lecture: Dr Adam Smith
- Mini-Lecture: Prof Catherine Hall
- George Grote Prize in Ancient History Competition 2011
- Professor Burk talks Wodehouse on BBC2
- Dr Adam Smith on BBC Radio
- PhD Appointments
- Mellon Research Fellowship
- Provost's Teaching Award
- BBC Radio 4: Prof Kathleen Burk & Dr Adam Smith
- George Grote Prize
- Fellowship Awards for UCL History's Ben Kaplan
- Grote Chair of Ancient History
Teaching Assistant Vacancies
- We currently have vacancies for Postgraduate Teaching Assistants for next year. Details here
Events
- 21 May: China in Latin America
- 20-22 June: Festus-Volterra Colloquium
- 3-5 Jul: Year 12 Summer School
- 27 Nov: Jimmy Burns Memorial Lecture
Mini-Lecture: Dr Adam Smith
22 November 2011
Dr Adam Smith (UCL History) describes how 150 years ago, the first shots
of the American Civil War were fired, yet the United States was the
world's first modern democratic nation - a place in which virtually all
white men could vote and in which mass political parties vied for votes.
What was the relationship between the coming of the war and this kind
of democratic politics?
Watch the Video on YouTube
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