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Students at Millsaps confront history face to
face through the faculty’s extensive use of primary historical
documents in teaching. Many classes also bring the past to life
for students through the use of literature, art, music, film, and
other cultural products of the time and place under study. The proximity
of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History provides opportunities
for original research by students. Many history majors participate
in summer study abroad programs.
The Millsaps history department is particularly
strong in women’s history, American, European and African history,
and certain aspects of world history. The faculty includes historians
with national and worldwide reputations for their research and writing,
but emphasizes teaching on a personal level with undergraduates.
- The history department has developed a curriculum that is intended
to expose students to the variety of human experience that is
history in the broader sense and to examine the bases by which
historians make the choices of what to include in their recorded
versions of history.
- We seek to encourage the free exchange of ideas and interpretations
and to help students understand that the really important historical
questions -- the "why" questions -- have no single "right"
answer, but that all interpretations must be judged on the basis
of the evidence that is offered to support them.
- Courses are designed to allow students to practice the thinking,
evaluation, interpretation, discussion, and writing that are essential
parts of the study of history at the same time that they are learning
the "facts."
Activities
- Phi Alpha Theta:
An international honor society in history founded in 1921. Membership
is composed of students and professors, elected on the basis
of academic excellence. It encourages all members to engage
in the study, teaching, and writing of history.
- History Club
An organization of students majoring or minoring in history.
They offer many activities to broaden the public’s interest
in the subject.
Life After Millsaps
A large number of the department's
graduates go on to law school, a smaller number to graduate studies
in history, and many others into a variety of careers. We have had
several history majors who also majored in pre-med and have gone
on to medical school. In recent years, Millsaps history majors have
gone to well-known graduate and law schools such as such as Harvard,
Yale, Columbia, North Carolina, Indiana, Cornell, Vanderbilt, Virginia,
Texas, George Washington, Emory, Washington & Lee, Michigan
State, and many others.
For more information visit the
History
Department Website.
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