The study of history promotes better understanding of how societies work, the factors that bring them together and set them apart, and the events that have shaped their development. It helps to explain how different political and legal systems came into being and how economic and geographic conditions have driven the growth of nations.
Students in history choose from a wide variety of courses in Canadian, American, European, and world history. We also offer courses in social, economic, political, diplomatic and military history, women's history, native history, family history, history of medicine, history of technology and environment, as well as historiography and methodology.
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News
Plaque commemorates uOttawa’s fallen
The driving force behind the memorial is Anne Millar, a doctoral candidate in the Department of History.
- Professor Lotfi Ben Rejeb is a finalist for the Capital Educator Award 2009.
Dimitri Kitsikis, professor emeritus in the Department of History and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, was honoured with a public foundation being established in his name
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2008 - Professor Ruby Heap, an historian specializing in women’s history and science, is recipient of the Fulbright Visiting Chair in Canadian Studies at Kennesaw State University.
Research
- Research Perspectives is a journal of discovery and invention from the University of Ottawa.
