Welcome to the History Department

As part of a public research university, our primary mission is to create and disseminate knowledge and research methods that promote the intellectual development of the people of Georgia and the nation.  Our nationally recognized faculty have produced outstanding research published by leading presses in the United States and Europe on topics ranging from the foundations of modern nationalism in the Caucasus, Europe, Egypt, Africa, and China, to economic development in the United States, Latin America, and Russia.  Graduates of Georgia State's history programs will have the ability to analyze conflicting information and viewpoints, write clearly and communicate ideas, find reliable evidence for judgments about human actions and motives, and place particular events in a wider context or historical pattern.