Pictured above are Ph.D. student Bonnie Laughlin Schultz and Journal of American History editor Ed Linenthal.

IU’s history students take advantage of a supportive but challenging learning environment.  Graduate students benefit from a range of learning and working opportunities, including Teaching College History seminars, an annual graduate conference, and a number of teaching and editorial positions.  The department graduates about a dozen Ph.Ds per year, as well as a smaller number of joint-MA/MLS students.  Our 400 undergraduate majors benefit from face-to-face interaction with faculty who have won numerous teaching awards, and who continue to create some of the most popular courses on campus, including those on the Holocaust, popular music, The Black Death, and Vietnam.

Claude Clegg, Department Chair

Greetings,

Founded in 1895, the IU Department of History today is home to more than 50 leading scholars and teachers who publish books, articles, and essays on a variety of subjects,

and who teach nearly 8,000 undergraduates each year.

IU’s history faculty offer courses in the history of Africa, Asia, Latin America, Russia and East Europe, Western Europe,

and the United States, as well as in an increasing number of thematic specialties, such as Cultural History, Jewish History, the African Diaspora, and the History of Gender and Sexuality. Department faculty also edit some of the leading historical journals in the world, including the American Historical Review, the Journal of American History, and one of the nation’s oldest regional-history journals, the Indiana Magazine of History. Together, their work helps to keep the department ranked, according to the 2006 U.S. News and World Report survey, among the nation’s top twenty history departments—seventh among public universities.

In short, the history department is home to a wide range of dynamic teaching and scholarship. I welcome you to use this site to learn more about our resources, and I hope that you will join my colleagues and me in the study of history at Indiana University.

Claude Clegg

Professor of History

Department Chair

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