Best schools for a history major?

[Anonymous]

Considering the state of current America, I'd say history majors are *needed.* There's so much ahistorical crap going on right now. Sometimes I touch base with the history majors I know just to check my instincts about what's kinda red guard, or 19th century, or what happened to our enlightenment, and are we getting new rounds of fundamentalists from the left and right...

I'm not a history major, that may be obvious. But like I said, we need them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All SLACs are good for this generally, in that you are taught almost exclusively by tenure track professors. This is especially true at SLACs with a consortium, so you have other SLACs to choose from and possibly even graduate courses as a senior: the Claremont Colleges, the Five Colleges, and the tri-co consortium come to mind.

As for larger schools, the top Ph.D. History programs don’t typically provide the best undergraduate experience. Best bet is probably mid-size schools with lots of resources and smaller classes.

THIS^^^. Go to a smaller school with a good history dept where your kid will be in smaller courses and able to engage with the professors. whether they are headed to law school or any other PHD program, they will benefit from this and with recommendations. It will be easier to engage with profs and be more involved in research, etc at a smaller school.

This is a horrible idea. Once Republcans take over these schools will be worthless.

They are private schools. Worry more about the publics.

Harvard managed to tarnish itself without the GOP’s help.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All SLACs are good for this generally, in that you are taught almost exclusively by tenure track professors. This is especially true at SLACs with a consortium, so you have other SLACs to choose from and possibly even graduate courses as a senior: the Claremont Colleges, the Five Colleges, and the tri-co consortium come to mind.

As for larger schools, the top Ph.D. History programs don’t typically provide the best undergraduate experience. Best bet is probably mid-size schools with lots of resources and smaller classes.

THIS^^^. Go to a smaller school with a good history dept where your kid will be in smaller courses and able to engage with the professors. whether they are headed to law school or any other PHD program, they will benefit from this and with recommendations. It will be easier to engage with profs and be more involved in research, etc at a smaller school.

This is a horrible idea. Once Republcans take over these schools will be worthless.

They are private schools. Worry more about the publics.

Harvard managed to tarnish itself without the GOP’s help.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Considering the state of current America, I'd say history majors are *needed.* There's so much ahistorical crap going on right now. Sometimes I touch base with the history majors I know just to check my instincts about what's kinda red guard, or 19th century, or what happened to our enlightenment, and are we getting new rounds of fundamentalists from the left and right...

I'm not a history major, that may be obvious. But like I said, we need them.

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Agree completely.

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Anonymous wrote:All SLACs are good for this generally, in that you are taught almost exclusively by tenure track professors. This is especially true at SLACs with a consortium, so you have other SLACs to choose from and possibly even graduate courses as a senior: the Claremont Colleges, the Five Colleges, and the tri-co consortium come to mind.

As for larger schools, the top Ph.D. History programs don’t typically provide the best undergraduate experience. Best bet is probably mid-size schools with lots of resources and smaller classes.

THIS^^^. Go to a smaller school with a good history dept where your kid will be in smaller courses and able to engage with the professors. whether they are headed to law school or any other PHD program, they will benefit from this and with recommendations. It will be easier to engage with profs and be more involved in research, etc at a smaller school.

This is a horrible idea. Once Republcans take over these schools will be worthless.

They are private schools. Worry more about the publics.

Harvard managed to tarnish itself without the GOP’s help.

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+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does he know what era and area of history he is interested in? If so, he should look at what professors have written papers on those topics (google scholar is great and free for searching) and see what university they teach at. History gets very specialized very quickly!

If he is interested in history more generally, then honestly any university or SLAC is probably fine. He could also look at factors such as what social science research opportunities the school offers, any interesting travel abroad history focused programs, grad school acceptance rates, and class sizes to form close relationships with professors.

The word you're failing to use, is "which"

[Anonymous]

William & Mary