History at Miami

Welcome to the Miami University Department of History! We hope you choose to join us for an undergraduate major, minor, or even a few classes; as a full-time Masters student, or part time as a teacher taking advanced credits. If so, you will learn that history isn’t just “names and dates” but also analysis; not just “facts” but their significance; not just a time and place in the past but humans living and loving, creating and destroying as we always have; not just “history repeating itself” but people making decisions in different conditions and sometimes acting on different values. Enter our website and browse! Join us and learn!

QUICK FACTS

History majors graduating in 2010-11:  117
History majors enrolled in 2010-11:  343
Enrollment in history courses, fall 2010:  2,750

Recent Faculty Publications

Looking South: Race, Gender and the Transformation of Labor from Reconstruction to Globalization
Mary E. Frederickson

Looking South writes southern workers onto a world stage as Mary E. Frederickson’s original scholarship seamlessly connects the New South, the Nuevo South, and the Global South. She highlights the major economic and cultural...

Lynching: American Mob Murder in Global Perspective
Robert W. Thurston

Addressing one of the most controversial and emotive issues of American history, this book presents a thorough reexamination of the background, dynamics, and decline of American lynching.  It argues that collective homicide in the U.S. can...

Protestant Empire: Religion and the Making of the British Atlantic World
Carla Gardina Pestana

The imperial expansion of Europe across the globe was one of the most significant events to shape the modern world. Among the many effects of this cataclysmic movement of people and institutions was the intermixture of cultures in the colonies...

Body by Weimar
Erik Jensen

Body by Weimar explores the ways in which athletes reshaped gender, the body, and modern culture itself in Germany during the 1920s. Unlike nudism, mass gymnastics, and the panoply of life-reform movements that remained popular into the...

"To Everything There Is a Season": Pete Seeger and the Power of Song
Allan M. Winkler

For over half of a century, Pete Seeger's life and music cut across the major issues of the day. A tireless supporter of union organization in the 1930s and 1940s, he joined the Communist Party, performing his songs with banjo and guitar...

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