Participate in the video series, History in Your Backyard by the New England Journal of History.Dean College is the home base for the New England Journal of History, where you can pursue internships and other learning opportunities.Learn methods and techniques of bringing academic history to a public audience through a variety of media.Build your career skills and portfolio by publishing your work in digital history and creating exhibitions in public history.Choose a topic that you’re passionate about and dive deeply into original research for a senior capstone project.
Engage with professors and classmates in small, discussion-based classes and seminars.Our students have interned with the Franklin Historical Museum, Blithewold Mansion, Gardens & Arboretum, Voice of America (Washington Center), Foxboro Regional Charter School, AES Corporation and Congressional Internships (Washington, D.C. Complete a for-credit internship with a Boston-area museum or historical society.Cold War America: Culture and Conflicts.And you’ll build rhetorical, analytical and communication skills as you learn how to draw lessons from the past to address contemporary problems. You’ll also take hands-on public and digital history courses, examining how historians construct history and present it for various audiences. You’ll explore a variety of primary and secondary sources (including original documents, film, music and visual images) and build information literacy skills in order to recognize, evaluate and critique the evidence on which historical narratives are based. You’ll study the cultural, social, political, economic and religious influences on human development. and world history, the diversity of historical perspectives, and the research and analytical methods to make sense of it all. It’s a first-person account passed down from a 94-year-old World War II veteran, a new presidential biography based on recently discovered documents, and the ongoing process of research and analysis.Īs an associate or bachelor’s degree student in History at Dean College, you will gain a broad understanding of the major forces and events of U.S. History is more than what’s written in dusty textbooks. As a History major at Dean College, learn how to interpret and analyze historical sources in the search for truth, greater understanding and answers to today’s most pressing questions.
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