The History BA at Northwestern empowers students to dissect continuity and change across civilizations, ideologies, and everyday lives. Courses range from Medieval Islamic empires to Cold-War espionage, emphasizing archival analysis, oral history, and digital cartography. An experiential-learning requirement places majors in museums, journalism outlets, or legal-aid offices where historical insight drives contemporary action. Faculty foster methodological dexterity—quantifying census data one day, decoding personal diaries the next—while interdisciplinary clusters connect history to environmental science, economics, and public health. Alumni excel in law, public service, data journalism, and startup leadership, armed with narrative acuity and evidence-based reasoning.
Digitize Prohibition-era Chicago police records and build a searchable database
Map the spread of the 1918 influenza using historical newspapers and GIS
Produce an oral-history podcast on mid-century civil-rights activists in Evanston
Analyze plantation account books to model economic networks of slavery
Create a VR tour reconstructing Bronzeville’s jazz scene in the 1940s
Study climate anomalies in medieval Europe via dendrochronology proxies
Examine propaganda posters to track gender roles in WWII mobilization
Assess archival photographs to document urban renewal displacement patterns
Write a policy white paper on reparations informed by historical precedents
Develop a digital exhibition on Indigenous boarding-school experiences
Use text-mining to uncover themes in early feminist periodicals
Compare historiographies of the Silk Road in Chinese and Persian sources
Investigate nuclear-test site impacts on Pacific Islander migration histories
Analyze Cold War declassified cables for shifts in diplomatic rhetoric
Catalog culinary recipes to trace spice trade globalization in the 17th century
Design an educational board game simulating revolutionary politics in 18th-century France
Quantify the economic legacies of colonial railways through longitudinal datasets
Turn evidence into insight and stories into strategy with Northwestern’s History degree.
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