The study of history offers tools for retrieving and interpreting the past—and, in the process, for better understanding the questions and challenges of our own time. The faculty and students of Indiana University's Department of History apply these tools to inquiries that range across geographic and disciplinary boundaries.

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Early American Field Gathers Strength

In Fall 2006, Kirsten Sword joined Konstantin Dierks and Sarah Knott in the early American field. All three scholars are concerned to situate early America in the wider world. Sword's latest research traces the thoroughly Atlantic story of the founding of the first American antislavery society. MORE...>