A documentary screening sponsored by the UTC History Club and Spectrum.
Why the U.S. President Needs a Council of Historians
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.”
The Flexibility of a History Degree
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.”
More reasons to study history: “Why America’s Business Majors Are in Desperate Need of a Liberal-Arts Education”
More reasons to study history, this time from The Atlantic. Bottom line: take more history classes!
Check out the documentary films from the Department’s spring break study tour in Vienna and Budapest
Over spring break 2016, Department Head John Swanson led a study tour in Vienna and Budapest for the UTC students in his class on “Two Sides of the Iron Curtain: Making Documentary Film.” The students worked in pairs and made short documentary films exploring a series of historical and social issues in Austria and Hungary.