The Department of History provides a window through which students can study the globe and all human activity. An understanding of the past helps students understand how people construct, try to live in, and change their social, political, and symbolic worlds.
2009 Bottimore Lecture: "Presidents Lincoln and Davis at Home"
- History Feature Stories
Kyle Bell, '09History and LAIS double major awarded Fulbright Grant
From LURE to ViennaHumanities majors give talk at renowned mathematics institute
Joanna DrellMedieval Italy scholar co-edits 500-page primary sourcebook
Erna BrodberCelebrated Jamaican author spends semester at Richmond
Snead Essay ContestThree students' essays on early American history win contest
Drew Howell, '10Student researcher returns to Seville for second summer
Jen Donohue, '10Research on Irish feminism takes international studies major to the Green Isle
Faculty RetirementsFour A&S professors retire with a combined 134 years of service
- History News
- History department announces spring 2010 speaker series
- Spring 2010 history registration guide released
- Courses on historical evolution of Islamic society
- History department announces fall 2009 lecture series
- School of Arts & Sciences welcomes 16 new tenured or tenure-track faculty and three directors
- History Events
- November 11Pulitzer-Prize winning expert on American Revolution Gordon S. Wood speaks - 4:30 p.m.
- November 12Tocqueville's American Studies: A Symposium - 5:00 p.m.
- November 19Hays and Margaret Crimmel Colloquium: "The Aims of Liberal Education" - 4:00 p.m.
