Undergraduate Program

Why Study History?

The History major teaches students to think, to write, and to research. We have a world-class faculty ready to help students learn in deep, historical ways about major issues in the world today, from climate change to war to racial injustice. History majors are taught to use skills from multiple disciplines, the sciences included, to explore the past in all of its complexity, and to translate that research for an audience. That might involve creating museum exhibits or writing historical fiction, just as much as traditional scholarly prose. Our students have gone into a wide variety of fields, notably law, medicine, business, and public policy.