What We Do

The mission of the Christopher Newport University Department of History is to serve the University and the Commonwealth by acting as a bridge to the humanities, the social sciences, and the hard sciences. The Department’s offerings complement these areas of learning by encouraging students to reach out and understand not only the history of mankind’s progress through the ages but also to seek out the answers to society’s contemporary problems and issues.

The academic environment of the Department of History embraces all aspects of national, Western, and global history. By means of comprehensive offerings of courses at the introductory, upper, and graduate levels of study, the Department cultivates in its students an appreciation and zeal for learning that encompasses both theoretical and applied bodies of knowledge. To that end the Department and its committed faculty impart to students and the community at large lessons from the great chronicle of human experience — intellectual, political, cultural, economic and spiritual. Faculty share their own intellectual curiosity and dedication to learning through effective teaching, significant research and scholarship, and active community service.