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Johns Hopkins portrait

Hopkins Retrospective

Documents prompt reexamination of history of university's founder

Published Dec 9, 2020

Census records and additional research provide evidence that Johns Hopkins was a slaveholder during the mid-1800s, in contrast to the longstanding narrative that he was an early abolitionist whose father freed the family's enslaved people decades earlier

Black and white photo shows young soldiers in training lounging in their barracks

Retrospective

Hopkins and WWI

Published Sept 14, 2016

Exhibit digs into university archives to explore impact of 'The Great War' at home and abroad

Alternate Hopkins history

Published April 14, 2015

Professor writing a history of Hopkins discusses events that could have changed the shape of the university

History goes digital

Published Winter 2014

The Hopkins Retrospective project explores Johns Hopkins history and finds new ways to share it with the community. / Johns Hopkins Magazine