Department Overview
The History Department at Malone Global University examines the human past through chronology, geography, historical subjects, and the people, institutions, events, movements, and societies that shaped historical development. The department emphasizes chronological understanding, evidence-based interpretation, historical context, and the relationship between events across different regions and periods.
History may be approached in several ways. Students can follow developments across time, investigate the history of a particular region, examine specialized historical subjects, or study individual historical objects such as civilizations, governments, wars, movements, people, institutions, and major events.
Chronology
Study history in chronological sequence, from the earliest human societies through the ancient, medieval, early modern, modern, and contemporary worlds. Chronological study emphasizes change over time, continuity, turning points, transitions, and connections between historical periods.
- Explore Historical Chronology — Follow historical developments through periods, centuries, eras, and major chronological transitions.
Regions
Study history geographically by examining the peoples, states, societies, cultures, economies, and institutions that developed within particular parts of the world. Regional history also examines migration, trade, warfare, diplomacy, cultural exchange, and interaction between neighboring and distant societies.
- Explore Regional History — Study the histories of Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Oceania, and their constituent regions and societies.
Historical Subjects
Historical subjects organize the past according to recurring areas of human activity and historical inquiry. These subjects allow events from different times and places to be compared through common themes, institutions, systems, and forms of human experience.
- Explore Historical Subjects — Study political, economic, military, social, cultural, intellectual, religious, diplomatic, legal, technological, labor, environmental, and other specialized areas of history.
Historical Objects
Historical objects are the specific people, societies, institutions, events, movements, conflicts, documents, places, and organizations that historians investigate. This section provides structured access to individual subjects of historical study and connects them to broader chronological, regional, and thematic contexts.
- Explore Historical Objects — Study civilizations, empires, states, people, organizations, wars, battles, revolutions, movements, treaties, institutions, events, documents, and historically significant places.
History Resources
Supporting materials for historical study are maintained in the Malone Global University Library. These resources may include primary sources, maps, timelines, chronologies, bibliographies, datasets, reference materials, and research tools used throughout the History Department.
- History Resources — Access supporting reference and research materials for the study of history.