Since earning her doctoral degree from the UNC History Department in 2007, Dr. Christina Snyder has established herself as a leading historian of North American race, colonialism, and slavery from pre-contact through the nineteenth century. She is currently the McCabe … Read more

Increasingly, Ph.D. graduates are pursuing careers outside the academy–in the federal government, at museums and public history sites, in university administration, and at higher education consulting firms. Still, Ph.D. graduates rarely become high school teachers. According to one study, only … Read more

In some ways, the average working day of John Hall (M.A. ’03, Ph.D. ’07) as an Army officer is not unlike his workday as a professor of Military History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A lieutenant colonel in the Army … Read more

Who says a historian has to stick to the facts? When Katy Simpson Smith, PhD ‘11, got a major book advance from HarperCollins, she left her adjunct teaching position at Tulane University to write fulltime—and now she’s the author of … Read more

A few of Phil’s favorite UNC professors: Barbara Brandon Schnorrenberg taught “Western Civilization” and British history courses. She also instructed the first course in women’s history at UNC. Enno Kraehe was a professor of modern European history and wrote extensively … Read more

In February 2017, President Donald J. Trump appointed Lt. General H.R. McMaster, who received a Ph.D. in History from UNC in 1996, as national security adviser. McMaster is the first national security advisor with a Ph.D. in History and, according … Read more

In 1975 UNC-CH awarded the first Morehead-Cain scholarships to women. Among the first female recipients was Katie Ziglar ’79, who agreed it was “high time” the university accepted women into the prestigious program. Ziglar fell in love with history and … Read more

In 1990, UNC-CH alum Dr. Gordon “Nick” Mueller, then a professor and administrator at the University of New Orleans, was approached by colleague Stephen Ambrose to start a modest museum to honor those who participated in D-Day. Mueller, whose graduate … Read more