The MA in History at UVA trains students to investigate historical events, movements, and narratives through archival research, historiographic analysis, and interdisciplinary inquiry. With strengths in American, European, African, and transnational history, this program supports students preparing for teaching, public history, or future doctoral studies. Students engage with original documents, develop methodological skills, and build nuanced historical arguments.
Archival study of enslaved family networks in Virginia plantations
Gender roles and propaganda in WWII American home front media
Comparative revolutions: Haiti, France, and the U.S.
Impact of the 1918 flu pandemic on small-town economies in the South
Digital mapping of Civil War battlefields and troop movements
Oral histories of Appalachian coal mining communities
Reconstruction historiography and the myth of the ‘Lost Cause’
Indigenous land treaties and U.S. westward expansion
Public memory and monument debates in the post-Charlottesville era
Medieval trade routes and the economic rise of Venice
A transatlantic study of abolitionist newspapers
Historical GIS of urban redlining practices in 20th-century America
Historical climatology: drought, famine, and societal collapse
Religion and reform in Progressive Era education policy
Archival reconstruction of LGBTQ+ student life at UVA pre-1980
Labor movement strategies in 19th-century textile industries
Explore the past through archival inquiry and critical scholarship in UVA’s MA in History.
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