{"id":269,"date":"2022-09-23T20:39:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T20:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/history2022\/?page_id=269"},"modified":"2022-12-12T19:52:52","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T19:52:52","slug":"department-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/history\/department-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Department History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">History has been an integral part of the undergraduate and graduate curriculum at Vanderbilt since the university was founded in 1873. The first undergraduate students of the discipline immersed themselves in subjects as various as the Roman Empire, English constitutional history, the history of religion (including Islam), political economy, and contemporary American politics. Graduate study came early\u2014in the 1880s\u2014to Vanderbilt. Taught in weekly seminars, a new instructional form, students were expected to master the standard texts\u2014in ancient history and in legal history, for example\u2014while the more advanced among them engaged in innovative research on such issues as the Civil War, local government in the South and Southwest, the tariff, Henry George, and socialism. Vanderbilt\u2019s first Ph.D. in history was awarded in 1899, one of only three awarded in the South before 1900.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Today, the Department of History\u2019s 40 full-time faculty members offer courses that span the globe\u2014from Africa and Asia to Europe, Latin America and the United States\u2014and that introduce students to a range of historical questions and methodologies. The undergraduate program attracts over 150 majors, and the graduate program annually enrolls about 10\u202fstudents in a variety of fields. Department faculty are at once devoted and skilled teachers on the one hand and innovative and accomplished researchers and writers of history on the other.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History has been an integral part of the undergraduate and graduate curriculum at Vanderbilt since the university was founded in 1873. The first undergraduate students of the discipline immersed themselves in subjects as various as the Roman Empire, English constitutional history, the history of religion (including Islam), political economy, and contemporary American politics. Graduate study&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":41,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-headline-img.php","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/269\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}