History is a way of understanding the whole of the human condition as it has unfolded in time. Without history, nothing makes sense, from the meaning of words to the formation of identities, to institutions, states, and societies. History straddles the boundary between the social sciences and humanities. Like the other social sciences, it has established methods of investigation and proof, but it differs from them in that it encompasses, potentially, every area of human culture from the beginning of recorded time. Like the other humanities, it uses ordinary language and established modes of telling its stories, but it is constrained by evidence left us from the past.
The History Department is home to a distinguished group of scholar-teachers whose work ranges from the medieval to the post-modern, from the Middle East to the Midwest, from gender and sexuality to science and economics, from micro-history to world history.
Gabriela Jarzebowska
Wednesday, April 17, 2019, starting 4:30pm in Allbritton 311
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More Damnable Questions: Brexit and the Irish
Susan K. Kent, A&S Professor of Distinction, Department of History, University of Colorado at Boulder
Tuesday, April 30, in Allbritton 311, starting 4:30pm
