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With a $350,000 federal grant, UF researchers will showcase recordings that tell how antislavery activists secretly assisted those escaping slavery.

Third-year honors student Patrick Grey was selected as a 2023 Beinecke Scholar, a prestigious award supporting his future graduate education.

Why did the United States stop celebrating the “Glorious Eighth of January” as a national holiday? UF historian Sean Adams explores the obscure commemoration and controversial U.S. president at the heart of it all.

Environmental storytellers, advocates and visionaries work to repair humanity’s relationship with a changing world.

Members of a UF presidential task force outline UF’s history with Indigenous and Black peoples and cultures.

As UF’s first woman and 13th student overall to win the Rhodes Scholarship, Aimee Clesi plans to challenge wrongful convictions as she continues her education at the University of Oxford.

A panel of faculty members with strong ties to Ukraine, Russia and Europe discuss the ongoing crisis.

The U.S. News & World Report 2022 Best Graduate Schools rankings gave high marks to Criminology, History, English and others.

History professor Sean Adams led a group of educators on a historical tour across Florida and Alabama to learn more about the Civil War.

Check out the latest published work by our talented faculty and alumni.

Lillian Guerra, professor in the Department of History, and Amanda Concha-Holmes, courtesy faculty in the Department of Anthropology, received grants.

The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program hosted visiting West Point cadets for a crash course in racial equality, led by civil rights movement veterans and activists.