150 Years Of Discovery And Impact
In recognition of our 150th anniversary in February 2026, we launched the first university-wide timeline, encompassing milestones, breakthroughs, and evolutions of our campuses that date back to our inception. However, the entries ultimately featured are but a small cross-section of the incredible acts of ingenuity, innovation, and ideation that has defined all corners of this university.
Below, you will find additional resources that Hopkins Retrospective and Special Collections consulted in the development of this timeline. These include division-specific timelines, prior histories of Johns Hopkins, and exhibits and archives at the Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries. We encourage you to review these sources (among others) for an even more expansive snapshot of the countless moments in which the people of Johns Hopkins have advanced our mission over these past 150 years. We have linked these for easy access.
For questions or additional insight into these resources, please contact [email protected].
School, Division, and Department-Specific Timelines
- Johns Hopkins Medicine
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
- Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering (Engineering at the University, Mary Ruth Yoe, 1989)
- Johns Hopkins School of Nursing (Our Shared Legacy: Nursing Education at Johns Hopkins, 1889-2005, Mame Warren, 2006)
Institutional Chronologies and Profiles
- Mame Warren: Johns Hopkins: Knowledge for the World (2000)
- Hugh Hawkins: Pioneer: A History of the Johns Hopkins University, 1874-1889. (1960)
- Helen Hopkins Thom: Johns Hopkins: A Silhouette (1929)
- John C. French: A History of the University Founded by Johns Hopkins (1946)
- Julia Morgan: Women at the Johns Hopkins University: A History, 1986
Early History of Johns Hopkins
- Michael T. Benson: Daniel Coit Gilman and the Birth of the American Research University (2022)
- Daniel Coit Gilman: The Launching of a University (1906)
- William H. Buckler: Assembling the Homewood Site (1941)
- Kathryn Jacob: “Mr. Johns Hopkins” (Johns Hopkins Magazine, January 1974)
Additional School and Division-Specific Readings
- Louise Cavagnaro: A History of Segregation and Desegregation at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions (1992)
- Neil A. Grauer: Leading the Way: A History of Johns Hopkins Medicine (JHU Press, 2012)
- Elizabeth Fee: Disease and Discovery: A History of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, 1916–1939. (JHU Press, 2016)