We are known across campus as a department committed to quality undergraduate teaching, and a number of our faculty have won major teaching awards. Students find that the Department of History is staffed with stimulating and helpful instructors.
Coon teaches agricultural history, early America, and the American Revolution.
Coon received the Burlington Northern Faculty Achievement Award in 1988. Garretson teaches World and Modern European history and has published journal articles in Austria and Germany. He has published articles in The Journal of American History, The Journal of Southern History , and the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography . Kale teaches modern European history and has a research specialization in the history of modern France. Kale is currently working on a political history of aristocratic salons in France during the early nineteenth century.