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About the Department
History provides valuable preparation for careers in university and college teaching and research, primary and secondary education, law, government, public service, journalism, libraries and museums, international business, and medicine.
Students of history explore periods and regions ranging from ancient Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome to the modern Middle East, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Areas of emphasis include politics, diplomacy, warfare, and intellectual life, as well as gender and women’s history, medicine and science, colonialism and intercultural contact, religious expression and practices, and environmental history. Our curriculum reflects long-standing disciplinary tradition in its organization by region, nation-state, and time period, but it also embodies a newer orientation toward transnational, comparative, and thematic courses.
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