The History Department’s undergraduate program offers a wide variety of opportunities to study how people, societies, and cultures of the past have evolved over time.  

The Department’s courses allow undergraduates to engage with a host of approaches to historical study: social, political, economic, cultural, intellectual, military, digital, and more. Our offerings give students the chance to explore diverse places such as medieval Europe, the Indigenous Americas, Communist China, and the modern Middle East, and introduce them to a range of topics including the histories of food and fashion, African piracy, the French and American Revolutions, Latin American spirituality, and the 1960s. 

From examining local communities and the lives of ordinary individuals, to investigating the development of nations and transnational relationships, Brock History students learn how familiar features of life in our own backyards – which sometimes seem small and insignificant – have helped shape and, in turn, been shaped by the wider world.