The Department of History is committed to pursuing excellence in historical scholarship and teaching across many different time periods and research interests. Its outstanding faculty specializes in a wide array of historical issues and themes that transcend particular regions and periods. Courses connect undergraduate and graduate students with the excitement of historic discovery and provide a rigorous training in researching and analyzing the human past.

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Robert Travers

Associate Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies

Attention Undergraduates:

Are you interested in becoming a history major? You can now apply online, after securing your own major advisor. For more information: history-major-application-information. Paper Applications are available in McGraw Hall, fourth floor.

IMPORTANT NOTICES:

Codes for pre-1800 and World Areas courses are included with the course descriptions in the Class Roster and Courses of Study.

Pre-1800 is coded as HPE
World Areas are coded as HAN, HNA, HEU, HGS, HTR.

To search for courses under specific Major Requirement Codes, go to Courses of Study and enter the code in Search.

History News

Professor’s book wins American Historical Association prize

11/07/2022

Judith Byfield's book "The Great Upheaval: Women and Nation in Postwar Nigeria" was awarded the Martin A. Klein Prize.

Noted archaeologist to speak on new discoveries in Israel in Cornell lecture

10/26/2022

Israeli archaeologist Mordechai Aviam and his colleagues made headlines by finding possible evidence, near the Sea of Galilee, of the house of St. Peter.

‘Words as battle axes’: A&S professors appear in Frederick Douglass film

10/21/2022

Derrick Spires, Edward Baptist, and Gerard Aching help tell the story of the man born into slavery who became an advocate for African American freedom.

Klarman fellow’s research prompts Stanford to investigate its practices

10/20/2022

An archive discovery by Cornell historian Charles Petersen reported in an August 2021 newsletter prompted Stanford University to establish a task force to investigate its admissions practices for Jewish students in the 1950s.

From fabric arts to human waste: Student Biennial projects transcend

10/17/2022

More than a dozen students are taking part in the Cornell Biennial, which aims to serve as an anchor for the arts at Cornell.

Global Cornell awards support new international courses

10/14/2022

Five International Cornell Curriculum grants totaling $114,000 will support faculty developing courses that feature international experiences for students.