The program is designed to meet the varied academic and professional needs of graduate students, with flexible requirements that encourage students to define their own courses of study within a curriculum of comparative and transnational history. Students study many areas of world history, including our departmental strengths in American and European history, in a program that consistently receives high marks in national surveys and rankings and boasts an outstanding placement record.

The Department of History combines the best of both worlds: the intimacy of a small liberal-arts college department and the intellectual strength of a major research institution, just outside of Boston with its wealth of extensive historical resources. Our department offers students a comprehensive, flexible, and vibrant curriculum in an environment that is small enough to encourage intensive work with world-class faculty members, including several award-winning historians. We invite you to explore more.