History Archives

Bradley Birzer

Hillsdale College

Richard Gamble

Hillsdale College

Darryl Hart

Knowing the nature of the arguments and tracing the lines of development is a large part of what it means to be educated.

Matthew Gaetano

Hillsdale College respects ancient and medieval traditions of learning but does so in a way that remains critical toward those traditions and that continues to engage the intellectual currents that have emerged in the more recent past.

Korey Maas

“My aim in the teaching of history is never merely to describe ‘change over time’ but, with my students, seriously to examine, to debate, and so to understand both the causes and the consequences of change.”

Kenneth Calvert

The central purpose of an education is to teach what it means to be human.

Dave Stewart

The history department at Hillsdale emphasizes those great ideas which have shaped the modern world, rather than ephemeral cultural phenomena and shallow identity politics.