History

As a Union history major, you’ll explore world-shaping forces and develop strong research skills in analyzing evidence and perspectives.

Union’s curriculum covers African, Asian, European, Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. history, plus courses on global history, science, medicine, public history, and gender studies. Classes also address topics like the environment and race in film, all taught by professors.

Our students gain a global perspective through international programs, including two faculty-led, mini-terms in public history. The South Africa mini-term in Cape Town examines post-Apartheid historical representation through visits to museums, townships and wildlife reserves. The Holocaust History mini-term in Warsaw and Krakow explores Holocaust memorialization in Poland.

Public history is history presented or practiced outside the classroom - in museums, monuments, historic sites, battlefields, archives, digital history and film.

As a public history minor, you will learn the theory, methods, practice, and controversies of public history in its various dimensions. Students take an introductory course and can then choose from a variety of courses counting for public history credit, including "The Museum: Theory and Practice," "Oral History," "Representing America: United States History in Film" and "Race in American Memory."