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Upcoming Events:

Faculty Talk
Wednesday March 7, 2012, at 4 pm in the History Department
Prof. Susan McDonough will give a talk on her book

Low lecture, co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Dresher Center for the Humanities
Wednesday April 25, 2012 at 4pm in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
Peter H. Wood, Professor Emeritus of History, Duke University, "Near Andersonville: Winslow Homer's Civil War"

In 1866, the great American artist Winslow Homer created an unusual picture linking Georgia's infamous Andersonville POW camp to the black struggle for freedom, but the painting of an enslaved woman vanished for a full century. Dr. Wood, the first scholar to explore it closely, suggests that Homer's image provides a striking new way for Americans to view the Civil War, and ourselves, in the twenty-first century.

Winslow Homer, Near Andersonville

The UMBC history faculty is composed of scholar-teachers at the forefront of knowledge in their fields. The department offers a B.A. and M.A. in history and is affiliated with the Ph.D. programs in Public Policy and Language Literacy and Culture. The department's faculty are committed to helping students expand their understanding of the world through learning to apply the knowledge and analytical abilities gained by studying the past.

The study of history enables students to develop writing, research, analytical, and communication skills that broaden their perspectives on the past and provide new sights on current issues and problems. In addition to encouraging mature judgment, the history curriculum trains students to work sensibly and logically with a wide variety of evidence. Graduates in history work in a wide range of fields including government, business, and education.