Welcome to the history department at Cornell. The department is committed to pursuing excellence in historical scholarship and teaching across many different time-periods and research interests. Our outstanding faculty and students also specialize in a wide array of historical issues and themes that transcend particular regions and periods. Courses connect students with the excitement of historical discovery, and provide a rigorous training in researching and analyzing the human past.

The history department joins with diverse historians from other Cornell departments to form the graduate field of history, providing expert training for graduate students. Our department thrives on its close relationship with many other departments, centers and area-studies programs in the humanities and social sciences at Cornell.

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Dept. of History Spring 2011 Newsletter

The Cornell Historical Society

Upcoming events...

Thursday, May 5, Jackie Reynoso, "(Dis)Placing the American Revolution," 4:30pm, 366 McGraw Hall.

Program on Freedom and Free Societies - Upcoming Events

News (see all news...)

Ezra's Archives: This year saw the creation of two new initiatives on the part of undergraduate History majors (see more...).

Barry Strauss has published Masters of Command...

Peter Dear Revolutioninzing the Sciences, 2nd ed...

Kim Todt has been selected as the 2011 recipient of the John S. Knight Institute's Recognition in Teaching Award...

Student Awards and Job Announcements