A recent history study has been completed on the World War II (1941-1946) prisoner-of-war (POW) camp and alien internment camp that once was present near what is now South Family housing at Fort McCoy ...

DNA analysis of African Americans buried at an early U.S. iron forge reveals locations of their African and European ancestors and finds more than 40,000 living U.S. relatives. The study is the first ...

We encourage art history majors and minors to study abroad in the belief that it provides students with a unique opportunity to experience other cultures and traditions first-hand. We recommend that ...

W hat does it mean to study slavery? To study something means to make arguments based on evidence. But what counts as evidence, and who has the authority to make those determinations? In part because ...

A history BS that prepares you not only to become a historian, but also to succeed in fields as diverse as business, education, government, journalism, law, and public service. Four Thematic ...

Let me continue this series on the Persian empire based upon the words of historian Will Durant (see article one in this series). Again, we must study history to determine what works. If we practice ...

Native American leaders in western Massachusetts are marking the end of a historical study into a massacre that took place in 1676, during King Phillip’s War. According to historical record, 250 ...

These are EXCELLENT resources and it will enhance student engagement at our alternative learning environment…keep student attention and extremely focused on the content itself. What I personally love ...

With an independent study course, the History Department offers students the opportunity to work under the direction of a faculty member to pursue a topic that is not covered (or not covered in ...

W e take history to be an essentially worldly, secular, materialist, empirical discipline. We presume that the factors, human acts, and dynamic forces that we invoke to explain why the world is as it ...