Wheeler House
133 S. Prospect Street
Burlington, VT 05405
(Located at the Northwest Corner of S. Prospect and Main Street)
Phone: (802) 656-3180
Fax: (802) 656-8794
Email: history@uvm.edu
The word "history", which is Greek in origin, means "learning through inquiry," and that is precisely what UVM professors of history and their students do. The study of history is much more than memorizing dates, names, battles, treaties, and endless amounts of similar boring, and largely inconsequential facts. Together, students and faculty discover and interpret the past by asking questions and conducting research. In the process, students become educated people, possessing flexible minds and sophisticated world views who are prepared to meet the challenges of a constantly changing and increasingly complex world.
Virtually every member of our department has won or been nominated for one or more of the university's awards for excellence in teaching. We are equally proud of the fact that we are a community of scholars involved in the active pursuit of historical understanding. As scholar-teachers we are committed to sharing our love of history and our search for historical insight with our students.
The History Department enjoys a diverse group of students. Many who enroll in our classes are not history majors and many who are history majors have no intention of teaching history or otherwise becoming professional historians. What all of our students share is a passion for history and a desire to use its study as a means toward deepening their insight into the human condition, sharpening their analytical skills, and improving their ability to express their insights in clear English prose. In other words, they have chosen history as their main avenue toward a well-rounded education.
Most, we happily report, graduates go on to careers in business, the law, journalism, and a wide variety of other professions. Two of our recent history graduates, for example, have won Pulitzer Prizes, one for journalism, the other for literature.
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