History

Overview

The History Department produces an informed citizenry in a rapidly changing society by giving its students the tools and skills to analyze and understand the world around them. Historians are investigators, experts at collecting, piecing together, and examining evidence, but they are also storytellers, weaving together past lives and events into complex narratives. 

As History majors, students will be exposed to the momentous sweep of our collective past and encouraged to seek out connections to our present. They will learn to think with rigor, communicate with clarity, and analyze difficult problems. The study of History thus gives students a foundation of marketable skills from research to writing to collaboration that provide excellent preparation for professional careers in a wide variety of fields.