History Department
Students explore yesterday to help inform today and tomorrow. They grasp that humanity has the capacity to create the magisterial works hanging in the Louvre as well as the horrors of Auschwitz, or the inspiring wonder of Angkor Wat as well as the Killing Fields of Cambodia. And they understand that history propels our lives.
With a History Degree...
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Rewrite HistoryHistory student Eryn Kane asked why Rosalynn Carter's legacy wasn't given more attention at the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site.
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Go Where History HappenedThese history students went to Mexico’s “cradle of independence” to learn about the nation's rebellion and separation from Spain.
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Discover the DramaSeth Givens discovered a collection of raw, unpolished military and civilian personal accounts of World War II.
Military and International
Military, foreign relations, strategic, naval, national security history, and more.
Colonialism and Postcolonialism
The making and remaking of the modern world—power and its legacies
Intellectual and Cultural History
Ideas, beliefs, and their historical context—including guilt, democracy, social order, equality
History of Religion
Belief systems, religious identities—and the interaction between religion and society
Political History
The stories of political power wielded among the world's societies over time
Gender History
How gender notions affected culture, politics, and social practices of the past