MA in History

History can certainly make you more knowledgeable and interesting to talk to and can lead to all sorts of brilliant vocations, explorations, and careers; just take a look at all these former history majors, for example. But even more important, studying history helps us ask and answer humanity s Big Questions. In fact, we faculty often tell our students that history is all about questions.If you want to know why something is happening in the present, you might ask a sociologist, an anthropologist, an economist. But if you want deep background, you ask a historian. We are the people who know and understand the past and can explain its complex interrelationships with the present.