One of the greatest weeks of my life was the week David McCullough came to teach a one-credit course at Hillsdale College in 2006. McCullough, the great writer and teacher of history, held forth on ...

In the last few months, two rich essays have appeared looking back at a series of flare-ups, since 2019 or so, in the perennial debate over the politics of historical study. In July, Past & Present ...

“G reek literature contains the germs of almost everything, so you can treat of almost all tendencies in treating of it,” the Hellenist Gilbert Murray wrote in the year 1900. One and a quarter ...

The history department at Western made me fall even more in love with history....the history department made me feel seen. Joshlyn, History Major The fundamental goal of the study of history is to ...

Introduction to the histories of art and the practice of art history. You will encounter a range of arts (including painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, prints) and artistic practices from ...

History is set to return as a subject in Nigeria’s primary and secondary schools. Barring any unforeseen hitches, the reintroduction which was mooted in 2016, will be actualised sometime in 2025.