History
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Why study history?
Unidentified student group, 1940s, University Archives and Special Collections, University of Dayton.
Why study history?
Unidentified student group, 1940s, University Archives and Special Collections, University of Dayton.
Academics
We offer our students a challenging yet flexible program of study that emphasizes both the distinctiveness and the utility of the historian's craft.
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Opportunities and Activities
Extra-curricular activities enhance the learning experience beyond the classroom.
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About our Students
Our students are engaged in the classroom and beyond, through blogs, podcasts, campus events and more.
Student Involvement
About our Faculty and Staff
Our distinctive faculty teach courses focusing not only on past events and developments, but also on the manner in which historians gather evidence and reach conclusions.
Learn MoreThe skills of today's historian are often used across disciplines and in many professional settings.
Department of History alumni, please stay in touch. Your insights are invaluable to our majors.
In 1930, W.E.B. Du Bois, the great civil rights leader, scholar and author, wrote to the University of Dayton to ask for information on African American enrollment. Du Bois was gathering information for an article about higher education in The Crisis, the magazine of the NAACP. This video explores the University of Dayton's response.
Purchasing the Dayton Arcade was an important component of the University of Dayton's partnership with the community surrounding campus. The Arcade's place in the Dayton's History brings an opportunity for history faculty and students as well.
In a project that lasted for over a year, and through the capstone course taught by Dr. Todd Uhlman, students helped to excavate the past and explain the legacy of one of the most important spaces in the rise of the Gem City."
Marie Poinsatte, a senior history major and College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Summer Fellowship recipient, spent the spring and summer of 2020 studying the women’s suffrage movement in Dayton.
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University of Dayton Flyers running back Richie Warfield is working this summer as an intern for the office of Ohio Lt. Governor Jon Husted ’89, who earned All-American honors as a cornerback and kick returner for the Flyers, and was a starter on UD's 1989 NCAA Division III national championship football team.
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Historians Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders and Julius Amin have been at the forefront of the discussion of race in America with writings and interviews for regional, national and international news outlets. Follow this and other recent media coverage of the service, research, scholarship and commentary of College of Arts and Sciences programs and their faculty.
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Teaching English in South Korea through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program has special meaning for University of Dayton alumnus Will Landers ’19, who is one of five University students and recent alumni to receive 2020-21 Fulbright awards.
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Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders recently did a live interview with Al Jazeera English about the banning the Confederate flag from U.S. military sites.