Study a Bachelor of Arts in History at King's

Modern-day conflicts, ideas, and assumptions about the world all started somewhere. Historians work to understand the present by examining and empathizing with past human experiences, all the while becoming more sensitive to the nature of cultural formation.

Inside this program

Feed Your Historical Imagination

How did it feel to live in London during the darkest days of WWII? What was it like for Europeans and Indigenous peoples in North America to encounter each other for the first time? Engage with incredible stories of how humans lived, fought, and thought in times and places very different from our own.

Explore A World Full Of History

Choose from courses in British, European, North American, Russian, and world history. Learn different ways of doing history and ask deeper questions about how and why we study world events.

Engage With the Past

So many lessons can be learned from the lives of those who came before us. As a history major, you'll develop your historical perspective in lively classroom discussions and take initiative on your own research projects using primary sources. 

Research Profiles

Child Writing and the Traumatised Body Caroline Lieffers Humanities & Social Sciences

Texts by young conflict survivors, including the children of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, are worthy of historical and literary consideration on many fronts. How did young people experience, understand, and cope with damage to their bodies? How did they translate their experiences into prose? This essay suggests that their writing offers a deep well for other fields—trauma studies, the history of childhood, and even disability studies—to consider.

Disability in US History Caroline Lieffers Humanities & Social Sciences

This essay surveys the history of disability in the United States, from pre-contact Indigenous histories to the present. It gives particular attention to the ways that disability has intersected with other categories of discrimination, like race, and points out how disability activists have worked for positive change.

Re-forming History Mark Sandle and William Van Arragon Humanities & Social Sciences

Does the discipline of history need a reformation? How should Christian faith shape the ways historians do their work? This book, written for students, considers the “how” of doing history.

Communism Mark Sandle Humanities & Social Sciences

Why did communism grow so quickly? Why did it spread to turn almost half of the world red by the mid-1970s? What impact did it have upon capitalism and capitalist society?

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