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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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American Studies Program, Asian American Studies Program, Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, History
Are you interested in becoming a history major? You can apply online, after securing your own major advisor. For more information: history-major-application-information. Paper Applications are available at 120 Mary Ann Wood Drive.
Important notices:
Codes for pre-1800 and World Areas courses are currently available soon on the Course List ( https://courses.cornell.edu/courses/hist/), and in archival Catalogs.
World Areas are coded as HAN, HNA, HEU, HGS, HTR
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Announcing History’s 2nd Open House/Trivia Night at 120 Mary Ann Wood Drive
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 2026
Time: 4:30-6:00
Location: 120 Mary Ann Wood Drive, Room 125
Details: Join us for a night of fun trivia, a chance to hear history’s faculty talk about their course offerings, and to find out what CHS is. Handouts (including course flyers) will be available, faculty will be on hand to answer questions, this will be a great time to meet other majors and minors, snacks, and earn prizes for trivia questions. Highlights about our first trivia event: https://history.cornell.edu/news/history-department-hosts-lively-open-house-and-trivia-night.
*Please share the details about this event with friends who are interested in History!
On the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, what’s notable is the lack of change in the last year, says David Silbey, a professor at Cornell University who specializes in military history and defense policy.
Two Cornell researchers collaborated with colleagues in the United Kingdom in an effort to understand the organized violence of modern war.
Cornell faculty, staff, students and community members celebrated the 95th birthday of Toni Morrison, M.A. ’55, by unveiling a new historical marker in front of 513 N. Albany St., where she lived while in graduate school.
This month’s featured titles by A&S alumni and faculty include a look at the urban-rural divide, a biography of an anti-poverty activist, and a business guide for "winning dream jobs, awards, and elite opportunities.”
Scholar of law Philippe Sands will give the LaFeber-Silbey Lecture in History on March 5, considering "Lessons from History and Literature, from Nuremberg to Pinochet and Beyond.”
The new book explores what happened to “mixed blood” children born to Japanese women and foreign soldiers.
The 12 early-career scholars will pursue research in the sciences, social sciences and humanities.
History Department Hosts Lively Open House and Trivia Night