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Matthew Restall wears a paisley blazer, blue shirt and Elton John-style pink glasses.

Q&A: Matthew Restall delves further into pop music history with recent books

October 30, 2025

Author and historian Laura Edwards standing leaning against a brick wall

Laura F. Edwards to deliver 2025 Brose Distinguished Lectures

October 14, 2025

Liberal Arts professor explores ‘nine lives’ of Christopher Columbus

October 09, 2025

Black and white photo of Frances Harper

Symposium celebrating writer, activist Frances Harper set for Sept. 19-21

September 15, 2025

A.K. Sandoval-Strauaz

Professor edits new book focused on Latino influence on urban history

May 28, 2025

Kathryn Salzer stands with Sue Paterno and Clarence Lang.

Kathryn Salzer named Paterno Fellows Program director

May 15, 2025

Dara Walker receives American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship

May 07, 2025

Thirty-five students were chosen to represent the college based on outstanding academic achievement and contributions to Liberal Arts student life

College of the Liberal Arts announces spring 2025 student marshals

April 18, 2025

Tobias Brinkmann (left) talks to his students in front of him while standing in a parking lot outside a building in the former ghetto in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Penn State students study Holocaust history in Baltics through embedded program

April 08, 2025

Picture of person sitting at table with image projected in the background.

University supports Ukrainian academics through Nonresidential Scholars Program

March 26, 2025

Faisal Husain stands outside university in Istanbul.

History professor uses Fulbright to teach environmental history in Turkey

January 22, 2025

Penn State exterior library ball with sculpture

Q&A: 'HumIn Focus' series considers the societal value of higher education

October 22, 2024

Penn State students and faculty sit in four rows on stairs with Leo Varadkar, former prime minister of Ireland.

Students study deliberative democracy, meet former prime minister of Ireland

September 06, 2024

Monica Pineiro stands outside Weaver Building at Penn State University Park.

Monica Pineiro named Liberal Arts college marshal for summer 2024 commencement

August 07, 2024

Don Redford stands against backdrop of anicent Egyptian site.

Acclaimed Egyptologist Donald Redford passes away at 90

July 12, 2024

Penn State Liberal Arts community mourns loss of professor emeritus Wilson Moses

July 10, 2024

Greg Eghigian in a news studio

Video: Bird, balloon or UFO? Professor talks history of flying saucer sightings

June 28, 2024

Historian and Cherokee history specialist receives Mellon Foundation Fellowship

June 10, 2024

Katherine Godfrey standing outside in Seville, Spain

Historian awarded fellowship to study matrilineal networks in colonial Colombia

June 04, 2024

A book cover with the title "After the Flying Saucers Came: A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon" over an illustration of a UFO flying over a mountain

Flying saucers and alien abductions: New book explores history of UFOs

June 04, 2024

History faculty member Christina Snyder named Guggenheim Fellow

May 09, 2024

Old Main clock to the right, with clouds pictured above

Two Penn State faculty elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

May 02, 2024

Najee Rodriguez

Advocating for fellow students

April 30, 2024

Headshots of the 34 Liberal Arts major marshals selected to represent the College of the Liberal Arts at spring 2024 commencement

College of the Liberal Arts announces spring 2024 student marshals

April 14, 2024

Two table flags in the foreground with a plaque of Penn State's Alma Mater in the background

Penn State Global announces 2023-24 award recipients for global engagement

February 27, 2024

Q&A: HumIn Focus series asks what it means to be Indigenous

February 21, 2024

Center for Black Digital Research, Library of Congress forge new partnership

February 01, 2024

Cover image of Michelle Sikes's new book featuring the title "Kenya's Running Women: A History" above a photo of a person running down a dirt road in Kenya.

Q&A: Kenya’s trailblazing women runners chart course to success in new book

December 01, 2023

Penn State students pose for a group photo in Cádiz, Spain.

Liberal Arts students embrace Spanish history and culture in Cádiz

October 19, 2023

Promotion & Tenure 2023

Tenured, promoted faculty honored through books at Oct. 2 recognition program

October 11, 2023

Female student in front of "We Are Penn State" screen

World Campus disability services assists whole student, not just disability

July 25, 2023

An exterior photo of the Sparks Building at University Park.

Penn State World Campus liberal arts degree programs help students reach goals

July 10, 2023

Rachel Shelden stands in front of paintings of Supreme Court justices

History faculty member's research honored by Supreme Court Historical Society

June 29, 2023

Photo of the 1889 Johnstown Flood damage

WPSU explores the present-day lessons hidden in the shared tales of 'Past PA'

May 17, 2023

Collecting the Andes 2 artists

Three-part project probes, celebrates art, culture and history of Andean peoples

May 07, 2023

Casey Sennett at the Pyramids of Giza for embedded course ARAB 99/499: Youth Life in Egypt (December 2022)

Liberal Arts student fulfills dream to study and see the world

April 28, 2023

Headshots of the 36 Liberal Arts major marshals selected to represent the College of the Liberal Arts at spring 2023 commencement

College of the Liberal Arts announces spring 2023 student marshals

April 20, 2023

A.K. Sandoval-Strauaz

A.K. Sandoval-Strausz elected to Society of American Historians

April 19, 2023

Professor’s latest book examines religion's role in Ukrainian society

April 10, 2023

Group photo with Michelle Kengkart (center) and, left to right, Grace Pilch, Owen Perry, Mihir Kulkarni, Leila Filien and De'jah Coates, posing in front of the Parthenon in Athens, Greece.

Liberal Arts students learn about wonders of the ancient world in Greece

April 10, 2023

Students at Grodzka Gate – NN Theater in Lublin, Poland

Liberal Arts students travel to Poland to learn about the Holocaust

April 05, 2023

Laurel Pearson, associate teaching professor of anthropology, gives the Liberal Arts First-Year Lecture from behind a podium on September 19, 2022.

Liberal Arts to host event examining sustainability throughout human history

April 03, 2023

Students in the Multilingual and Intercultural Communication embedded program took a day trip to Bologna, Italy.

Intercultural communication class travels to Italy over spring break

March 28, 2023

Nikki Michael 2023 Editathon

Libraries to host virtual Wikipedia editathon focusing on Native American women

March 23, 2023

Ziyen Curtis is the director of human resources for Enactus, a sustainability-focused student organization at Penn State.

Liberal Arts student pursues sustainability, gender and racial equity

March 14, 2023

Photo of Margaret Burnham, University Distinguished Professor of Law at Northeastern University, and the words Richard B. Lippin Lecture in Ethics, Februay 23 at 6 p.m. in the flex theatre, HUB-Robeson Center on a blue background

Civil rights pioneer Margaret Burnham to present Rock Ethics Institute lecture

February 06, 2023

The students in front of the Sphinx of Memphis

Liberal Arts students travel to Egypt through embedded program

January 30, 2023

Samantha Escobar, a third-year Liberal Arts student at Penn State, leans against a pillar outside the main entrance to Old Main.

Scholarship recipient helps donors invest in the lives of other students

December 06, 2022

Two flying saucers

‘Fun’ research on historic ads about flying saucers, UFOs remains relevant

November 23, 2022

Kaitlin Pasternak, a first-generation student majoring in history at Penn State

First-generation Liberal Arts student reflects on college experience

November 07, 2022

Ira J. Allen (left) and Nathan Crick (right)

Paterno Fellows to host panel on 'the future of democracy' Nov. 1

October 27, 2022

Penn State Global welcomes Paul Zeleza, distinguished professor, for lecture

October 04, 2022

Jenna Lugo is a third-year student majoring in political science and history with a minor in global and international studies.

Smithsonian internship helps Paterno Fellow explore her history passions

September 28, 2022

Brockopp at KMP

Penn State history professor examines ancient Arabic manuscripts in Tunisia

August 29, 2022

Jay Johnson holds a bouzouki behind and next to plants

Education abroad helped Liberal Arts alumnus pursue love of classics and music

August 16, 2022

A group of students stands at Piazzale Michelangelo in Florence, Italy

Liberal Arts students learn about Roman history firsthand on trip abroad

August 01, 2022

Korn_Josh&Sarah w-Lang

Liberal Arts alumnus establishes endowment in School of Public Policy

July 20, 2022

Shelden_Rachel 2019

Richards Civil War Era Center director garners NEH fellowship

June 27, 2022

Covart_Wilde Lion Shrine 2022

History alumna creates fund to support undergraduate research in the humanities

June 10, 2022

StatelessHistories_KoreanRefugee

Stateless Histories project brings understudied subject to light

May 09, 2022

36 student headshots

College of the Liberal Arts announces spring 2022 student marshals

April 13, 2022

Crystal Sanders

Crystal Sanders recognized by American Historical Association

March 22, 2022

"Woman Suffragists and their Chinese Allies" from the New York Tribune, April 11, 1912

OLLI's Winter Warm-Up courses offered to the community at no cost

January 14, 2022

The_Record_of_Murders_and_Outrages

Historian explores racial violence, early days of Reconstruction in latest book

January 06, 2022

An old photo of William McClure wearing a hat and tie, next to some old handwritten Choctaw text.

Multi-university project to focus on language and history of the Choctaw Nation

November 15, 2021

John McFarland stands in front of ocean

Alumnus combines love of learning and history to fuel military career

November 12, 2021

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Matthew Restall wears a paisley blazer, blue shirt and Elton John-style pink glasses.

Q&A: Matthew Restall delves further into pop music history with recent books

October 30, 2025

Author and historian Laura Edwards standing leaning against a brick wall

Laura F. Edwards to deliver 2025 Brose Distinguished Lectures

October 14, 2025

Liberal Arts professor explores ‘nine lives’ of Christopher Columbus

October 09, 2025

Black and white photo of Frances Harper

Symposium celebrating writer, activist Frances Harper set for Sept. 19-21

September 15, 2025

A.K. Sandoval-Strauaz

Professor edits new book focused on Latino influence on urban history

May 28, 2025

Kathryn Salzer stands with Sue Paterno and Clarence Lang.

Kathryn Salzer named Paterno Fellows Program director

May 15, 2025

Dara Walker receives American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship

May 07, 2025

Thirty-five students were chosen to represent the college based on outstanding academic achievement and contributions to Liberal Arts student life

College of the Liberal Arts announces spring 2025 student marshals

April 18, 2025

Tobias Brinkmann (left) talks to his students in front of him while standing in a parking lot outside a building in the former ghetto in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Penn State students study Holocaust history in Baltics through embedded program

April 08, 2025

Picture of person sitting at table with image projected in the background.

University supports Ukrainian academics through Nonresidential Scholars Program

March 26, 2025

Faisal Husain stands outside university in Istanbul.

History professor uses Fulbright to teach environmental history in Turkey

January 22, 2025

Penn State exterior library ball with sculpture

Q&A: 'HumIn Focus' series considers the societal value of higher education

October 22, 2024

Penn State students and faculty sit in four rows on stairs with Leo Varadkar, former prime minister of Ireland.

Students study deliberative democracy, meet former prime minister of Ireland

September 06, 2024

Monica Pineiro stands outside Weaver Building at Penn State University Park.

Monica Pineiro named Liberal Arts college marshal for summer 2024 commencement

August 07, 2024

Don Redford stands against backdrop of anicent Egyptian site.

Acclaimed Egyptologist Donald Redford passes away at 90

July 12, 2024

Penn State Liberal Arts community mourns loss of professor emeritus Wilson Moses

July 10, 2024

Greg Eghigian in a news studio

Video: Bird, balloon or UFO? Professor talks history of flying saucer sightings

June 28, 2024

Historian and Cherokee history specialist receives Mellon Foundation Fellowship

June 10, 2024

Katherine Godfrey standing outside in Seville, Spain

Historian awarded fellowship to study matrilineal networks in colonial Colombia

June 04, 2024

A book cover with the title "After the Flying Saucers Came: A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon" over an illustration of a UFO flying over a mountain

Flying saucers and alien abductions: New book explores history of UFOs

June 04, 2024

History faculty member Christina Snyder named Guggenheim Fellow

May 09, 2024

Old Main clock to the right, with clouds pictured above

Two Penn State faculty elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

May 02, 2024

Najee Rodriguez

Advocating for fellow students

April 30, 2024

Headshots of the 34 Liberal Arts major marshals selected to represent the College of the Liberal Arts at spring 2024 commencement

College of the Liberal Arts announces spring 2024 student marshals

April 14, 2024

Two table flags in the foreground with a plaque of Penn State's Alma Mater in the background

Penn State Global announces 2023-24 award recipients for global engagement

February 27, 2024

Q&A: HumIn Focus series asks what it means to be Indigenous

February 21, 2024

Center for Black Digital Research, Library of Congress forge new partnership

February 01, 2024

Cover image of Michelle Sikes's new book featuring the title "Kenya's Running Women: A History" above a photo of a person running down a dirt road in Kenya.

Q&A: Kenya’s trailblazing women runners chart course to success in new book

December 01, 2023

Penn State students pose for a group photo in Cádiz, Spain.

Liberal Arts students embrace Spanish history and culture in Cádiz

October 19, 2023

Promotion & Tenure 2023

Tenured, promoted faculty honored through books at Oct. 2 recognition program

October 11, 2023

Female student in front of "We Are Penn State" screen

World Campus disability services assists whole student, not just disability

July 25, 2023

An exterior photo of the Sparks Building at University Park.

Penn State World Campus liberal arts degree programs help students reach goals

July 10, 2023

Rachel Shelden stands in front of paintings of Supreme Court justices

History faculty member's research honored by Supreme Court Historical Society

June 29, 2023

Photo of the 1889 Johnstown Flood damage

WPSU explores the present-day lessons hidden in the shared tales of 'Past PA'

May 17, 2023

Collecting the Andes 2 artists

Three-part project probes, celebrates art, culture and history of Andean peoples

May 07, 2023

Casey Sennett at the Pyramids of Giza for embedded course ARAB 99/499: Youth Life in Egypt (December 2022)

Liberal Arts student fulfills dream to study and see the world

April 28, 2023

Headshots of the 36 Liberal Arts major marshals selected to represent the College of the Liberal Arts at spring 2023 commencement

College of the Liberal Arts announces spring 2023 student marshals

April 20, 2023

A.K. Sandoval-Strauaz

A.K. Sandoval-Strausz elected to Society of American Historians

April 19, 2023

Professor’s latest book examines religion's role in Ukrainian society

April 10, 2023

Group photo with Michelle Kengkart (center) and, left to right, Grace Pilch, Owen Perry, Mihir Kulkarni, Leila Filien and De'jah Coates, posing in front of the Parthenon in Athens, Greece.

Liberal Arts students learn about wonders of the ancient world in Greece

April 10, 2023

Students at Grodzka Gate – NN Theater in Lublin, Poland

Liberal Arts students travel to Poland to learn about the Holocaust

April 05, 2023

Laurel Pearson, associate teaching professor of anthropology, gives the Liberal Arts First-Year Lecture from behind a podium on September 19, 2022.

Liberal Arts to host event examining sustainability throughout human history

April 03, 2023

Students in the Multilingual and Intercultural Communication embedded program took a day trip to Bologna, Italy.

Intercultural communication class travels to Italy over spring break

March 28, 2023

Nikki Michael 2023 Editathon

Libraries to host virtual Wikipedia editathon focusing on Native American women

March 23, 2023

Ziyen Curtis is the director of human resources for Enactus, a sustainability-focused student organization at Penn State.

Liberal Arts student pursues sustainability, gender and racial equity

March 14, 2023

Photo of Margaret Burnham, University Distinguished Professor of Law at Northeastern University, and the words Richard B. Lippin Lecture in Ethics, Februay 23 at 6 p.m. in the flex theatre, HUB-Robeson Center on a blue background

Civil rights pioneer Margaret Burnham to present Rock Ethics Institute lecture

February 06, 2023

The students in front of the Sphinx of Memphis

Liberal Arts students travel to Egypt through embedded program

January 30, 2023

Samantha Escobar, a third-year Liberal Arts student at Penn State, leans against a pillar outside the main entrance to Old Main.

Scholarship recipient helps donors invest in the lives of other students

December 06, 2022

Two flying saucers

‘Fun’ research on historic ads about flying saucers, UFOs remains relevant

November 23, 2022

Kaitlin Pasternak, a first-generation student majoring in history at Penn State

First-generation Liberal Arts student reflects on college experience

November 07, 2022

Ira J. Allen (left) and Nathan Crick (right)

Paterno Fellows to host panel on 'the future of democracy' Nov. 1

October 27, 2022

Penn State Global welcomes Paul Zeleza, distinguished professor, for lecture

October 04, 2022

Jenna Lugo is a third-year student majoring in political science and history with a minor in global and international studies.

Smithsonian internship helps Paterno Fellow explore her history passions

September 28, 2022

Brockopp at KMP

Penn State history professor examines ancient Arabic manuscripts in Tunisia

August 29, 2022

Jay Johnson holds a bouzouki behind and next to plants

Education abroad helped Liberal Arts alumnus pursue love of classics and music

August 16, 2022

A group of students stands at Piazzale Michelangelo in Florence, Italy

Liberal Arts students learn about Roman history firsthand on trip abroad

August 01, 2022

Korn_Josh&Sarah w-Lang

Liberal Arts alumnus establishes endowment in School of Public Policy

July 20, 2022

Shelden_Rachel 2019

Richards Civil War Era Center director garners NEH fellowship

June 27, 2022

Covart_Wilde Lion Shrine 2022

History alumna creates fund to support undergraduate research in the humanities

June 10, 2022

StatelessHistories_KoreanRefugee

Stateless Histories project brings understudied subject to light

May 09, 2022

36 student headshots

College of the Liberal Arts announces spring 2022 student marshals

April 13, 2022

Crystal Sanders

Crystal Sanders recognized by American Historical Association

March 22, 2022

"Woman Suffragists and their Chinese Allies" from the New York Tribune, April 11, 1912

OLLI's Winter Warm-Up courses offered to the community at no cost

January 14, 2022

The_Record_of_Murders_and_Outrages

Historian explores racial violence, early days of Reconstruction in latest book

January 06, 2022

An old photo of William McClure wearing a hat and tie, next to some old handwritten Choctaw text.

Multi-university project to focus on language and history of the Choctaw Nation

November 15, 2021

John McFarland stands in front of ocean

Alumnus combines love of learning and history to fuel military career

November 12, 2021

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