University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of History

The Department of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill is an open learning community, dedicated to rigorous research and critical inquiry into the whole spectrum of human experiences across time and space. Our inquiry ranges from the Americas and Asia to Europe, Africa and the Middle East; and its study spans every historical era. The Department’s faculty approaches these diverse regions and times with a wide variety of historical methods and thematic perspectives—including political, social, cultural, intellectual, economic, military, gender, global, and oral history. Its courses provide careful, well-informed surveys of major historical events and long-established historical debates, but they also introduce students to the most innovative, new fields of contemporary historical studies.