The History Department helps students to appreciate the profound differences between ourselves and others and to imagine (and to some degree experience) the world as people have in times now lost and in places we shall never see.
Happening at Mount Holyoke
D. Caleb Smith, a new faculty member at Mount Holyoke College in history, is interested in sharing the narrative of unsung heroes and everyday Black union leaders who were a driving force in labor and civil rights protests.
Patricia Dawson, new faculty in history at Mount Holyoke College, researches history through an Indigenous lens, looking at material culture.
America’s Gilded Age was a period of unparalleled accumulation of wealth, says Mount Holyoke’s Dan Czitrom — making it the perfect setting for TV drama.
Mount Holyoke College is located in Western Massachusetts on the ancestral land of the Nonotuck people. It is also important to acknowledge the neighboring Indigenous nations who continue to be connected to this land: the Nipmuc and the Wampanoag to the East, the Mohegan and Pequot to the South, the Mohican to the West and the Abenaki to the North.
The History Department helps students to appreciate the profound differences between ourselves and others and to imagine (and to some degree experience) the world as people have in times now lost and in places we shall never see.
