A.C. Murray Room 272, North Bldg. A fuller description of the History program is available in the History Handbook, which is produced in early April. It is an essential supplement to the Calendar, and students are urged to consult it.
History is exclusively neither an art nor a science, but a subtle blend of the two.
The historical imagination reaches beyond the limits imposed by scientific method, but it does not enjoy unfettered poetic license. What is not required of art is required of history - to discover what the old universe was like rather than to invent a new one. We study the past in order to influence, no matter how modestly, the world around us and the world within us. Historical inquiry is always a response to the human need for information, an understanding of the broad patterns of social development. Concentration in history can provide students with the analytical skills and intellectual judgement required in a number of fields.