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 * Department of History, Brown University**

As one of the first institutions in the United States to provide for historical studies, Brown University has long valued and nurtured research in the Department of History. The faculty's high standard of scholarship and excellence in teaching are well known, and members of the department are committed to the value a rigorous education in the humanities confers upon students. The department trains students in the fundamentals of historical thinking: skills and attitudes that will provide a foundation for excellence in a wide range of careers and professions, including teaching, law, medicine, business, public service, and advanced historical research.

The undergraduate History concentration is one of the most popular at Brown. Our students regularly win prizes for their senior theses and seminar papers. The Brown Journal of History, edited by undergraduates and refereed by graduate students, has become a leading undergraduate history journal in the country. More than a third of the department's faculty have won university awards for undergraduate teaching or advising.

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 * Lebanon Valley College**

Lebanon Valley College has a seven person department that offers degrees in History, Political Science, International Studies, and Historical Communications. We are a regional liberal arts college, and many of our majors want to become teachers. One way we are working to innovate and do more with our students is collaborative faculty-student research. This amounts to an honors program within the department. Over the last three years, over 30 majors have done research with five members of the department. Several students have presented papers at conferences, their expenses paid by a fund administered by the department. Students have used their research experiences to get into graduate school, as well as land good jobs in high schools, politics, or business.

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History is not only the record of the past, but also the discipline of investigating and interpreting the past. The study of history develops habits of critical thinking and effective writing, as well as cultivates the careful analysis of various types of quantitative and qualitative evidence. Barnard students who major in History focus their study on a region (such as Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, South Asia), period (such as ancient, medieval, modern), or theme (such as urban history, intellectual history, colonial history, economic history, etc.). Class formats range from introductory survey courses to seminars. The senior thesis is the culmination of undergraduate history education at Barnard. Students draw upon the skills of research, analysis, and argumentation that they acquire as a History major to dig deeply into one area of history and to emerge as an expert on that topic. The Barnard History Department has funds to support archival and field research in the United States and abroad. In recent years, History majors have utilized these funds to conduct research in China, Florida, England, Hungary, Singapore, and Texas. In addition to the many events related to the study of history on campus, the History Department hosts events for faculty and majors several times a semester. A History degree is valuable not only to undergraduates who intend to pursue advanced degrees in the field, but also to students interested in exploring the diversity and complexity of the human past as they hone their analytical and expository skills. Historical knowledge and historical thinking are translatable to realms of experience far beyond the classroom---from the job market to the exercise of citizenship. Feel free to learn more about Barnard through their Facebook page. || History is one of the largest academic departments at Oberlin. Interdisciplinary by design, we engage our students in numerous subjects approached through a variety of methodologies to help them become astute observers, practiced researchers, and critical thinkers. Our students study history and historical narratives in different cultures, and political and social institutions in order to become competent communicators who are able to interpret information and express ideas in written, digital, and oral forms. We offer an in-depth curriculum that covers East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, Latin America, Europe and Russia, and the United States. Our courses also contribute to and provide entry points into many related fields of study, including Comparative American studies, Africana Studies, East Asian studies, Classics, and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies. Oberlin history faculty members are accomplished, widely published scholars, and committed teachers who work closely with students. We introduce our students to the joys of historical research, and teach them how to pose and answer significant and meaningful questions. History majors are regularly awarded department grants to do research in archives around the world. Our graduates go on to careers in a wide variety of fields, from teaching to law to social justice work, and our department is among the largest undergraduate source of students for doctoral degrees in history of any liberal arts college in the country. ||  In addition to offering regular BAs, MAs, and PhDs in American and European history, the Marquette University History Department has recently begun to expand its internship program and to offer courses that feature digital humanities. In fall 2015 the department co-sponsored an event with Marquette libraries that brought nationally known experts on digital humanities to a one-day workshop with faculty and students. A second event is being planned for fall 2016. Students in our courses on the Civil War era, modern Ireland, and Native American history produced digital projects that integrated primary sources with mapping software, textual analysis, and social media. Gray Brechin delivered our annual Klement Lecture on his digital media project, " The Living New Deal ," while our 2nd Annual Phi Alpha Theta lecture featured Sarah Bond and Tom Keegan of the University of Iowa, who spoke on "Meeting Places: Maps, Manuscripts and Making Digital Humanities Collaborative." Public history students, in collaboration with the Milwaukee County Historical Society, produced websites, videos, quizzes, and an interactive map to accompany the Society's " Brew City MKE " exhibit, while history interns helped produce a weapons exhibit at the Milwaukee Public Museum; processed documents at the Marquette University archives and a collection of campaign buttons at the MCHS; and produced a map of the Near West Side (Marquette's neighborhood) featuring all 900 businesses found in the 1923 city directory. Additional courses will integrate digital humanities in 2016-2017, while public history students will once again collaborate with the Milwaukee County Historical Society on their spring exhibit on "Music in Milwaukee." ||   Welcome to the University of Iowa History Department! We hope that you share our enthusiasm for the study of past societies and cultures. What are the origins of the world in which we live: its economy, its social and political organization, its many diverse cultures? What lessons can we learn from past societies' efforts to resolve their own challenges? Students of history cultivate an understanding of change - how it happens and why it happens the way it does - that enables them to engage the world they inhabit. History students develop a global consciousness that helps them to navigate the streets (and the news) from Iowa City to Berlin to Nairobi. Employers value history students' ability to analyze human and social behavior, to research pressing problems, and to express themselves clearly. Graduates of the UI History department occupy prominent positions in government, education, business, journalism, law, entertainment, the medical professions, and the non-profit sector. In fact, a recent study showed that History BA's earn more than graduates in any other humanities field. In addition to teaching, our faculty members do cutting-edge research. That research finds its way into teaching materials, books for scholarly and popular audiences, digital collections, news reporting, legal briefs, policy-making, museum exhibits, film and TV documentaries, and more. We're often called upon to advise journalists or policy makers who want to make sure they're getting their facts right - and who also want to make sure they're analyzing and contextualizing those facts correctly. To learn more, please visit our webpage or visit one of our pages on Facebook ! ||  
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