Presidents' Day Lecture and Student Research Poster Sessions

Please join the History Department and RCHGHR for this year's Presidents' Day Lecture and Student Research Poster Sessions with Special Guest speaker Steven Hahn!

Thursday, February 12, 2026
5pm-7pm
Rowan Welcome Center

Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon

Mark your calendar for the fourth annual Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon @ Rowan hosted by the Center for Digital Humanities Research on February 13, 2026! 

Douglass Day is a hands-on digital humanities event that marks the birthday of Frederick Douglass, the renowned African American abolitionist, writer, reformer, and statesman. Each year, thousands of participants come together to transcribe documents related to Black History and make those materials more accessible and searchable online. This year we will transcribe documents from the Colored Conventions Collection in the Library of Congress.

Friday, February 13, 2026
11am-3pm
Bunce Hall 252

Click to Register Here!

Gender, Sexuality, and Migration

Please join Psi Iota Fellow, Dr. Hernandez-Matos and Guest Speaker, Dr. Salvador Vidal-Ortiz for a Lecture on Gender, Sexuality, and Migration - a history of non-belonging. 

November 24th

6:30pm

Zoom only, Scan for link.

Fall Events from RCHGHR

The Rowan Center for the Study of The Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights has a packed Fall schedule with many educational events for you to attend. 

CDHR Research Lunches

Please join the CDHR faculty, staff, and students for the monthly Digital Humanities Research Lunch presentations. Register here or contact rowandhadmins@rowan.edu for more details!

Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon

Rowan University Libraries is partnering with History, English, Center for Digital Humanities Research, and Women’s and Gender Studies faculty to host a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. Facilitators will introduce the basics of Wikipedia editing, followed by hands-on editing. During that time the facilitators will also be available to help. Participants can also continue editing online throughout the month, and the facilitators will continue to be available throughout the month to help. There will be three sessions, and an introduction will be provided at the beginning of each. Lunch will also be provided. Feel free to attend any or all sessions!

Please register at go.rowan.edu/editathon before attending and bring a laptop. For questions, contact rowandhadmins@rowan.edu.

2nd Annual Betty Bowe Castor '63 Lecture

Please join the History Department for a free lecture with Dr. Kalumbu noted African musicologist and Grammy-nominated artist! Registration is required so please be sure to sign up! Tickets for a pre-lecture event at 5pm will also be available for purchase with all proceeds going toward Operation Uganda Renewed Initiatives. 

Read more about Operation Uganda Renewed here and how you can take part!

The American Revolution, Preview Event

Rowan University Previews Ken Burns's The American Revolution! Please join acclaimed television critic David Bianculli, beloved professor of public history Jennifer Janofsky, and moderator of ceremonies William Carrigan as they preview the first part of Ken Burns’s new six-part, twelve-hour series The American Revolution. After introductory comments and clips that set the stage, we will watch the first hour of the documentary more than a month before it premieres on November 16^th. During this intermission, we will hear reactions from the panelists and check in with the audience. The evening will conclude with the second hour of the film. This is the first of a series of events that the Department of History plans to host in honor of the coming 250^th anniversary of the American Revolution.

Time: 5pm

Date: October 7, 2025

Location:  Rowan University Welcome Center, 131 Rowan Blvd, Glassboro, NJ

From PBS:  THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION examines how America’s founding turned the world upside-down.  Thirteen British colonies on the Atlantic Coast rose in rebellion, won their independence, and established a new form of government that radically reshaped the continent and inspired centuries of democratic movements around the globe. An expansive look at the virtues and contradictions of the war and the birth of the United States of America, the film follows dozens of figures from a wide variety of backgrounds. Through their individual stories, viewers experience the war through the memories of the men and women who experienced it: the rank-and-file Continental soldiers and American militiamen (some of them teenagers), Patriot political and military leaders, British Army officers, American Loyalists, Native soldiers and civilians, enslaved and free African Americans, German soldiers in the British service, French and Spanish allies, and various civilians living in North America, Loyalist as well as Patriot, including many made refugees by the war.