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Contribute new research to the oldest PhD history program in the country.

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Undergraduate Studies

The department seeks to develop each student’s capacity for comparative reasoning and to deepen their understanding of global connections.

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Faculty research ranges from medieval to modern history and emphasizes the histories of Europe, the United States, East Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East.

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Arts and Sciences Meets AI: Bringing the Past Alive

A one-of-a-kind database is based on expertise from Professor Louis Hyman and other Hopkins researchers. Working with the museum curators and archivists, a treasure trove of employee insurance records dating back to the early 1900s for the B&O Railroad Museum, will now be able to be scanned and digitized using AI technology.

Women Who Wrote About a New American Nation

Hilary Gallito ’25 is studying the words of three remarkable Revolutionary-era women who wrote about America as it was being formed.