Welcome to the School of History
As a critical engagement with the past, history sharpens judgements, expands perspectives, challenges a sense of the self-evident, and feeds curiosity. History finds connections in experience across place and time; it also confronts us with the need to understand the unfamiliar. Most of all, history is concerned with the skills of inquiry and argument – with assisting us to shape and present a view of the world.
News
2013 Allan Martin Lecture
More than ten years after his death, historians continue to honour the contributions of Professor Allan Martin (1926-2002) through the...
Edward M Curr and the Tide of History Published
In Edward M Curr and the Tide of History, Dr Samuel Furphy from the School of History at ANU looks at the life and legacy of a prominent figure...
Dual Biography Published
In the newly published Progressives at War Dr Douglas B Craig, School of History, examines the careers of two prominent American public figures...
Blue Mountains Crossing Bicentenary Seminar
Dr Martin Thomas, ARC Future Fellow with the School of History will participate in a seminar in Katoomba on Friday 10 May to mark the bicentenary of...
Seminars
29
May
‘2013
School of History Seminar Series 2013 - Semester 1 Program
Wednesday, 29th May 2013 - 4:15pm - 5:30pm
Semester 1 program
Events
04
Jun
‘2013
Symposium - Deep Time and Deep Histories: A Transdisciplinary Collaboration
Tuesday, 4th June 2013 - 9:00pm
06
Jun
‘2013
This month in history
This Month in History - Nimbin Dreaming
Held from 12-21 May 1973, the Nimbin Aquarius Festival was a watershed event in the growth of an alternative movement in Australia. A salient feature of the festival, both at the time and in recollection, was its incorporation of Aboriginal culture...
