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National Book Award Finalist Delivers 4th Annual Africana Studies Lecture on March 23

March 5, 2017 Anne Tracy

UTC’s Department of History and Africana Studies program are pleased to welcome 2016 National Book Award finalist Heather Ann Thompson of the University of Michigan to deliver the 4th annual Africana Studies Lecture on Thursday, March 23, at 5:30pm.

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The U.S. and the World: Foreign Policy and the 2016 Presidential Election

September 29, 2016 Anne Tracy

On October 5, the UTC History Club and Euphrates Chapter held a roundtable with UTC’s history faculty on “The U.S. and the World: Foreign Policy and the 2016 Presidential Election.” The History Department’s regional experts broke down the foreign policy positions of the presidential candidates for an audience of UTC students, professors, and community members.

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Why the U.S. President Needs a Council of Historians

August 10, 2016 Anne Tracy

In a new article in The Atlantic, Graham Allison and Niall Ferguson, both scholars at Harvard University, urge the president to establish a “Council of Historians,” arguing that “the U.S. could avoid future disaster if policy makers started looking more to the past.”

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The Flexibility of a History Degree

July 31, 2016 Anne Tracy

A new post from the AHA discusses the career flexibility and versatility history majors get with their degrees. History, as the author notes, “is an all-encompassing degree.”

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More reasons to study history: “Why America’s Business Majors Are in Desperate Need of a Liberal-Arts Education”

July 1, 2016 Anne Tracy

More reasons to study history, this time from The Atlantic. Bottom line: take more history classes!

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History isn’t a ‘useless’ major. It teaches critical thinking, something America needs plenty more of

June 2, 2016 Anne Tracy

From the Los Angeles Times: “History isn’t a ‘useless’ major”!

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If you majored in the humanities, you really should apply to Harvard Business School

April 26, 2016 Anne Tracy

“If you studied the humanities in college, Harvard Business School doesn’t just want you, it needs you,” says Dee Leopold, Harvard Business School’s director of admissions.

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Why Study History?

April 21, 2016 Anne Tracy

A few reasons: History helps us understand people and societies, contributes to moral understanding, provides identity, is essential for good citizenship, and is useful in the world of work.

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How A Major in History Gives You the Intangible Edge

April 21, 2016 Anne Tracy

“Studying history … gives graduates tremendous flexibility in the job market. In fact, history is not merely a degree you could consider—it is the degree you would be remiss not to.”

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Entering the Job Market with a BA in History

April 21, 2016 Anne Tracy

“History is dynamic, and you should be a bright, capable, and thorough thinker, writer, communicator, and researcher because of your time as an undergraduate.”

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How Big Data and UTC Interns are Changing History

April 21, 2016 Anne Tracy

UTC interns working with Envisioning History are adding momentum to a big data-driven project on World War II.

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That ‘Useless’ Liberal Arts Degree Has Become Tech’s Hottest Ticket

August 8, 2015 Anne Tracy

“Throughout the major U.S. tech hubs, whether Silicon Valley or Seattle, Boston or Austin, Tex., software companies are discovering that liberal arts thinking makes them stronger.”

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Just What Are the Liberal Arts Anyway?

August 8, 2015 Anne Tracy

“We are building the brain trust of the future.”

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