Department of History, Emory University

The Department of History at Emory University is both very old and very new. So far as we can determine, Emory has never tried to function without a History Department, and our graduate program is now well over a half century old, having been established in 1949. Our tradition is venerable. Some of the very eminent faculty who honored the Department with their presence during the three decades after 1949 were Bell Wiley (American Civil War), J. Harvey Young (American medicine), J. Russell Major (early modern France), George P. Cuttino (medieval Europe), and Rondo Cameron (European economic history). Together they authored and edited more than sixty works of history. The prodigious research record that they and their colleagues produced helps to explain why the Department received a commendation as an excellent department by the American Council of Education just fifteen years after establishing a doctoral program.