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History at the RUB

The Institute of History at the Ruhr University Bochum is dedicated to the researching and communicating history in all its facets. From antiquity to the present day, we offer a broad spectrum of research research projects and courses that enable us to delve deep into the past into the past and reconstruct historical developments that shape our and to reconstruct and understand historical developments that shape our present. Our lecturers and lecturers as well as our diverse resources and co-operations make the Institute of History a lively place of exchange and academic and scholarly discoveries.

Find out more about our work, our degree programmes and our current current projects on the following pages. We look forward to your visit!

Current dates & terms (12.10 - 24.10.2025)

all dates & terms

22.10.
Kolloquium
Aaron Blüm (Bochum)

German title:
Förderung von Identitäten in einer mehrsprachigen Erdöl-Boom Town durch Versicherheitlichung: Strategien und lokale Politik in Drohobycz vor 1918

23.10.
Kolloquium
Dirk Urbach (RUB)

German title:
Lehrpläne zwischen historischer Forschung, politischer Bildung und nationaler Meistererzählung


Course catalogue - Winter 2025/26

Here you can find the current, annotated course cataloguesBA, MA and M.Ed. (German onlay)


New publications from the Institute

Archive of publikations

Marcus Böick, Constantin Goschler, Ralph Jessen : Jahrbuch Deutsche Einheit 2025

Ch. Links Verlag, 2025

link to the book

Heidi Hein-Kircher, Frederik Frank Sterkenburgh: Modernizing Europe’s Imperial Monarchies

Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia in the Nineteenth Century

Springer Nature, 2025

link to the book

Heidi Hein-Kircher, Elisa-Maria Hiemer, and Denisa Nešťáková: Challenging Norms

Family Planning as a Reflection of Social Change in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe

New York · Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2025

link to the book

Jörn Rüsen, Michele Barricelli, Nicola Brauch, Estevão Chaves de Rezende Martins, Friedrich Jaeger: Handbuch der Historik

Wiesbaden, Springer VS, 2025

link to the book