• PEOPLE Faculty, office hours, graduate students, staff
• COURSES Course directory, permits, independent study
• UNDERGRADUATE Major, minor, advising, honors, study abroad
• GRADUATE Applying, guidelines, facts & figures, students
• EVENTS Calendar, series, conferences
• DEPARTMENT Visiting, forms, jobs, news, centers, faculty resources

Welcome

Welcome to the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Over forty historians in the standing faculty with a broad range of research specialties advance our understanding of the past. Penn's graduate program trains the next generation of scholars and teachers. The Department's strong commitment to undergraduate education can be seen in the prominence of the history major, one of the largest on campus, in the numerous teaching awards earned by both standing faculty and graduate students, and history's strong presence in general education. History faculty direct and participate in many interdisciplinary centers on the Penn campus, and edit a number of scholarly journals.

Location

The Department of History is located in College Hall, one of Penn's most distinctive historic buildings. Built in 1872, College Hall was the first building on the University's new campus in West Philadelphia. Designed by Thomas Webb Richards, a professor of drawing and architecture, the building originally housed almost all college functions. College Hall is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and forms part of the University of Pennsylvania Historic District.