As a history major, you explore the intricacies of the past to better understand the present. You collaborate with faculty known for their extensive work in specialty areas covering medieval history, Latin American history, Native American history, Tudor and Stuart England, and Asian American history. You also have the flexibility to choose courses that match your interests and professional aspirations.
The skills you build鈥攃ritical thinking, clear writing, public speaking, and problem solving鈥攚ill be useful no matter what career path you follow.
The broad training you receive as a history major opens up numerous career options. Our history graduates are working in business, education, law, libraries, museums, and other diverse fields. You can find our graduates working for:
Our Bachelor’s degree in history provides excellent preparation for graduate studies. Our graduates have a successful record of gaining access to a variety of graduate and professional programs:
History Students
As a history major, you become confident applying your skills through internship experiences. Popular internship destinations for history students include the Judicial Archives Project, Harry S. Truman Presidential Museum and Library, National WWI Museum, and Missouri History Museum.
The Historic Deerfield Summer Fellowship Program is one of the summer fellowship opportunities for history students at Truman.
An engaged and dynamic learning community, the supportive faculty members in the Social Sciences and Human Inquiry Department encourage you to explore topics that fit your interests and goals.
This capstone experience provides an opportunity for you to take the insights you gained from your previous courses and apply those insights to the production of a polished and sophisticated independent research project.
Join history faculty members on study abroad trips to China or Cuba, or pursue one of the 500 programs offered through Truman's Center for International Study.
March 25, 2024
Jason McDonald, assistant professor of history, won the Lawrence O. Christensen Award for his article 鈥溾�榃atch Adair County Klan Grow鈥�: The Second Ku Klux Klan in Kirksville, Missouri, 1923-25,鈥� which was published in the Missouri Historical Review in October 2023. The Christensen prize is awarded to the best article on a Missouri history topic published […]
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History major Elizabeth Nahach won the annual Lynn and Kristen Morrow Prize for best student paper at the recent Missouri Conference on History held in Columbia on 15 March 2024. Besides Nahach History majors Nathan Dowell, V茅la Lightle, Logan Kammerer and history/anthropology major, Micaela Reiss, also represented Truman at the conference. The five students by […]
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