The Department of History has earned an outstanding reputation for both the quality of its teaching and the high standards of its scholarship. 

The department is nationally and internationally recognized as a center for the study of the South and the Civil War. But it also has graduate students and faculty working in a host of other areas of American history, including the cultural history of the 20th century. It also has particular strengths in British history, the Middle Ages and Renaissance studies, and modern European history. 

The History program is offered at Louisiana State University.