History Spotlight

The 2025 New England Museum Association Conference was in Manchester, New Hampshire this year. Current UNH Museum Studies students attended, along with several Museum Studies alumni! Visit the link below to learn more about NEMA. 

Dr. Trica Peone, project director for New England's Histories in the Congregational Library & Archives, studies early witchcraft cases and was recently featured in an article in the Boston Globe.…

Linda Upham-Bornstein, Research Assistant Professor in the Department of History, was recently interviewed about “tax strikes” during the Great Depression for an article in Mother Jones:  “Sorry Geese: If You Don’t Pay Your Taxes, Uncle Sam Might Have You Plucked.”

Linda Upham-Bornstein, Research Assistant Professor in the Department of History, was recently interviewed about her new book, “"Mr. Taxpayer vs. Mr. Tax Spender: Taxpayers' Associations, Pocketbook Politics, and the Law during the Great Depression" on Newbooks Network, Nov. 2.

What's next after college? How does college help prepare you for future success? We’re celebrating the UNH class of 2025 by putting the spotlight on three members of the class. We asked Gabe Dennett, Molly Gearhart and Samantha Filipi five questions about the best parts of their UNH…

What made you choose UNH? I transferred to UNH in the Fall of 2021 after spending my first year at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Initially, I had planned to do my full bachelor's degree at the VU, but I was not satisfied with the curriculum. I was born and raised in NH and I had…

Sofia Thornblad is executive director of the Horatio Colony House Museum in Keene, NH. She was previously an intern at the museum and was able to learn many of the position’s responsibilities during that time.

After graduating from UNH in 1990, I started an apparel business, Coed Sportswear. The business purchased the trademark for Coed Naked, and Coed Naked would become arguably the greatest selling and most recognized t-shirt in the country.

During her time in COLA, Kasey Birth has parlayed her passion for World War II history into a multi-year internship, fascinating research opportunities, academic recognition and more. The history major interned for a full year at the Wright Museum of World War II in Wolfeboro, N.H., her hometown.…

When he stepped onto campus as a freshman, Peter Murray knew he wanted to study history. By the time he was a senior, he had added photography and a new appreciation for the visual arts to his varied interests, which include competitive powerlifting and working for the New Hampshire Air National…

Originally from the small town of Homewood, Ala., Sarah Jarrar found a home at UNH as a sophomore transfer student in 2018. “I immediately felt welcomed by the faculty,” she says, “and was eager to learn more about what UNH had to offer.” A commuter student from Bow, NH, Jarrar has maximized her…