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| Department of History at University of North Carolina | |
|---|---|
| Name | Department of History, University of North Carolina |
| Established | 1793 |
| Type | Public university department |
| Location | Chapel Hill, North Carolina |
| Parent | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Department of History at University of North Carolina The Department of History at the University of North Carolina is a major academic unit within the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that offers undergraduate and graduate instruction grounded in chronological and thematic studies of the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia. The department situates its curriculum and research amid regional and international frameworks exemplified by relations among United States, United Kingdom, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Russia, China, Japan, India, Ottoman Empire, Mali Empire, Songhai Empire, Aztec Empire, Inca Empire, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, Nigeria, Egypt, Greece, Byzantine Empire, Persia, Qing dynasty, Ming dynasty, Tang dynasty, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Caribbean, Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Israel, Palestine.
The department traces roots to the founding of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and early professorships that engaged with American Revolution, Constitution of the United States, Bill of Rights, Civil War, Reconstruction era, Jim Crow laws, Progressive Era, Great Depression, New Deal, World War I, World War II, Cold War, Vietnam War, Civil Rights Movement, Women's suffrage, Labor movement, Gilded Age, Antebellum South, Native American histories. Over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the unit expanded to include specialists on Renaissance, Reformation, Enlightenment, French Revolution, Napoleonic Wars, Russian Revolution, Mexican Revolution, Spanish Civil War, Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Holocaust, Imperialism, Decolonization, European Union, NATO, United Nations, reflecting shifts in historiography and professionalization epitomized by associations like the American Historical Association and the Southern Historical Association.
The department awards Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees with concentrations that intersect with programs in American studies, African studies, Latin American studies, Asian studies, European studies, Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, Public History Program, Digital Humanities, Museum Studies, Global Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Environmental Studies, Religious Studies, and professional collaborations with Kenan-Flagler Business School, School of Law, Gillings School of Global Public Health. Courses often address topics such as Slavery in the United States, Reconstruction era, Industrial Revolution, Imperial China, Tokugawa Japan, Mughal Empire, Ottoman Empire, Transatlantic slave trade, Age of Exploration, Atlantic World, Cold War politics, Decolonization of Africa, Latin American independence, Mexican–American War, Spanish Empire, Treaty of Paris (1783), using methodologies from archival research exemplified by connections to Library of Congress, National Archives, Bodleian Library, British Library, Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Faculty research spans fields including studies of Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Sojourner Truth, Rosa Parks, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Woodrow Wilson, and international figures such as Napoleon Bonaparte, Otto von Bismarck, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Sun Yat-sen, Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Simon Bolivar, Toussaint Louverture, Catherine the Great, Queen Elizabeth I. Research centers and faculty projects address archives concerning the Civil Rights Movement, Great Migration, Atlantic Slave Trade, Transnationalism, Imperialism, Globalization, Revolutionary movements, and digital projects that integrate resources from World Digital Library, Europeana, HathiTrust, emphasizing peer-reviewed scholarship in journals such as the American Historical Review and Journal of American History.
The department leverages campus resources including the Wilson Library, the Southern Historical Collection, the Documenting the American South archive, the North Carolina Collection, the Rare Book Collection, and partnerships with the North Carolina State Archives, Chapel Hill Town Hall, Historic Sites and Monuments Commission, Bennett Place State Historic Site, Monticello, Mount Vernon, Gettysburg National Military Park, and regional museums. Holdings include manuscripts, maps, newspapers, photographs, and oral histories connected to events like the Battle of Guilford Court House, Zebulon B. Vance administration, Wilmington insurrection of 1898 and international collections relating to Napoleonic Wars, European colonization of the Americas, Trans-Saharan trade, and Atlantic migration.
Undergraduates and graduate students engage in groups such as the History Honor Society (Phi Alpha Theta), the Carolina Public Humanities Collective, the Graduate History Association, the Undergraduate History Club, internship programs with North Carolina Museum of History, Ackland Art Museum, Southern Historical Collection, and study abroad opportunities in countries including United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Ghana, South Africa, Japan, China, India, fostering participation in conferences like the Organization of American Historians and the International Congress of Historical Sciences.
Alumni and faculty include scholars and public figures connected to Supreme Court of the United States, United States Congress, North Carolina General Assembly, university presidencies at Duke University, University of Virginia, Princeton University, journalism at The New York Times, The Washington Post, diplomacy at United States Department of State, leadership in institutions such as Smithsonian Institution, National Archives and Records Administration, and contributions to scholarship on Civil Rights Movement, Reconstruction, American Revolution, French Revolution, Russian Revolution, Mexican Revolution, Indian independence movement, African decolonization.
The department hosts public lectures, symposia, and workshops in partnership with UNC-Chapel Hill, the Carolina Center for Public Service, the North Carolina Museum of History, local schools, and national organizations like the National Endowment for the Humanities, American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, facilitating exhibits, oral history projects, digital humanities initiatives with Library of Congress collaboration and civic programs connected to Chapel Hill–Carrboro regional heritage, historic preservation efforts, and statewide educational outreach through archives and museum partnerships.