Newfoundland History Much of the departments post-graduate work is done in Newfoundland history. With support services in other departments such as Anthropology, Folklore , English, Geography, Political Science and Sociology, Memorial University is the logical place to do graduate work at all levels in Newfoundland history. The department has considerable experience in the application of statistical analysis to massive datasets. The Maritime History Archive comprises one of the best repositories of information on maritime history to be found anywhere in the world, and members of the Department of History act in an advisory and consultative capacity for students and scholars all over the world. Since 1989, the International Journal of Maritime History has been published at Memorial.
Maritime history is one of the fields in which the department offers a PhD degree.
The department has a strong program in Canadian history at both the master's and doctoral level. Faculty strengths include social history, especially labor and working class history, ethnic and women's history, Western Canadian history, Atlantic provinces history, ethno history and military history. Microfilmed collections from the United States National Archives, Congressional Record, and United States Depository Collection, together with various materials in the Provincial Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador and the Maritime History Archive, permit the department to supervise MA work in selected aspects of American history. The department provides opportunities for master's level work in British and European history. Copies of the British Parliamentary Debates and Papers, runs of some newspapers and journals, the Reports of the Historical Manuscript Commission, and a growing collection of printed diaries, autobiographies and letters make research possible.