Welcome to the History Department at the University of Minnesota! For well over a century, we have introduced undergraduates to the excitement and significance of historical studies. We have trained generations of graduate students who have gone on to teach and research in colleges, universities, museums, and libraries. Our faculty’s research has taken them around the world.
Reaching New Levels of Excellence
The University of Minnesota is moving forward with a strategic plan that will establish new levels of excellence in research, education, and public service. The history department is deeply involved in all these efforts.
We see scholarship, teaching, service, and outreach to the community in Minnesota and beyond as mutually reinforcing. All members of the faculty teach at all levels from freshmen surveys through graduate seminars. Many have won awards to recognize the high quality of their scholarship, teaching, and service. They have received fellowships from the most prestigious foundations and government granting agencies. We have a lively community of graduate student scholar-teachers. Our undergraduate major prepares some of the best students in the College of Liberal Arts for a variety of careers.
Our faculty contribute to knowledge about people and places all over the globe; our students study the ways people have interacted through trade, migration, media, and conquest from the ancient world to the present. They learn that what transpires in Minnesota is related to events as far away as Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia. The work of historians in all their endeavors is international education at its best..
Learn more about us
Explore our website. Find out about the recent books published by our faculty and their current research projects. Look at the range and quality of the courses we offer. Read about the variety of community outreach projects we have undertaken. And contact us to learn more!
With best wishes,
Eric D. Weitz
Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Chair of History
Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Chair in the College of Liberal Arts