Department of History
Positive Trends
Kenyon students Ruth Cohen and Patrick Kawakami are ready to begin their working careers.
Enlightening a Dark Past
Two Kenyon students organized a trip into the Deep South, bearing witness to a dark past and the hope of a brighter future.
The Cheerful Critic
History and English major Margaret Willison '07 turned her love of pop culture into a mini media empire.
Restoring History
Professor of History Glenn McNair fights against the myth of the Civil War's "lost cause."
Eyes on the Middle East
A seminar taught by Associate Professor of History Nurten Kilic-Schubel uses gender as a lens to examine a rapidly changing region…
Road to the Final Four
Shaka Smart '99Long before Shaka Smart shot to national fame as head coach for the VCU Rams and the Texas Longhorns, he was a history major at Kenyon…
Fulbright Fellows
Conor Michael Hennessey '14 & Mary Alice Jackson '15Conor and Mary will be teaching English in South America while pursuing projects related to research they began at Kenyon.
Unbroken Record
Best-selling author Laura Hillenbrand '89 discusses "Unbroken" and Kenyon's influence on her writing career.
Newsmaker
Matthew Winkler '77 is editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News, the global news service he founded with Michael Bloomberg.
Students of history at Kenyon come to a better understanding of the world by closely examining what men and women of the past have left behind.
Through engaged readings of texts, intensive discussions and substantive writing projects, history majors discern the amazing array of human experiences and their interconnections. As historians, students listen to the stories of those who have gone before them, and look at the pictures they have painted of their experiences. Students then begin to shape the narratives of their own lives and enrich their understanding of a complex world.
For history students, the past comes alive in individual and group projects designed to investigate, imagine and interpret the past. By writing and filming documentaries, staging simulations of elections, or creating a library exhibit on the history of baseball, students engage the past as a living, breathing reality that holds real meaning and the potential for clues to understanding contemporary life.