BA in History in College Park United States | University of Maryland, College Park

Our redesigned major promotes more varied and comprehensive learning by eliminating prerequisite courses. The History Department aims to enrich students' cultural perspectives through historical studies while equipping them for diverse careers including publishing, education, museum curation, law, media, public service, military, archival science, international relations, business education, advanced research, and other professional paths. Key program objectives include: Developing skills to identify and properly utilize different types of historical sources (documents, scholarly works, correspondence, literature, films, political illustrations, articles) in academic projects. Cultivating research proficiency with both primary and secondary materials from archives, printed media, digital resources, and online collections. Mastering the formulation and defense of historical arguments.

This diversity often makes history departments at major American universities appear like modern Towers of Babel to observers, where multiple methodologies, research areas, and academic perspectives intersect. The University of Maryland's History Department exemplifies this phenomenon. Within a single corridor at College Park, you might encounter an acclaimed expert on U.S. slavery history collaborating with an environmental historian specializing in Germany's highway system development, or a cinema scholar analyzing modernist trends in American film. Nearby offices house specialists covering Renaissance Venice, the Revolutionary War, gender studies, Progressive Era America, U.S. legal history, African colonial periods, Habsburg-era Vienna, and ancient Roman civilization.