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| Stephanie Lampkin, a junior ethnic studies and history major, was one of 10 students nationwide selected to participate in the SHEAR/Mellon Undergraduate Fellowship Program. Read more |
The Department of History offers a range of courses in European and United States history. In particular, the history of the United States from the 18th century to the present, medieval and early modern European history, modern continental Europe, and the history of Russia and the Soviet Union. The department also teaches Latin American History, as well as timely topics courses such as Foundations of Islamic History.
Cornell's One-Course-At-A-Time schedule makes possible term-long research seminars at the Newberry Library in Chicago, as well as other off-campus internship and independent research opportunities.
For example, students in Public Memory and Public History performed mini-internships at local historical museums in 2006, learning the skills of a growing profession while turning on-site research into a creative class web site. Students can also focus their efforts on in-depth projects such as the creation of documentary oral-histories in The Documentary Imagination During the Great Depression.
The Cornell campus and sections of Mt. Vernon are on the National Register of Historic Places giving students an immediate resource for extensive projects in local history, discovering the connections among transportation, commerce, settlement patterns, architecture, and the like.
And the Eric C. Kollman Memorial Lecture, which honors a distinguished former member of the Department, regularly brings outstanding history scholars to campus.
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