History

Historical thinking is an essential feature of faithful living. To think historically is to understand events, ideas, institutions, and civilizations within their thick and varied contexts. It involves honing a keen awareness of how all the dimensions of the creation are shaped by processes rooted in the remote and recent past.

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Program Overview

We believe in the importance of grounded, God-honoring civic reasoning for a vibrant society. Because of this, the history program challenges our students to deliberate thoughtfully in order to understand the shape, political dynamics, and historical roots of the modern world and to ask questions informed by the realities of historical development. We cultivate in students the skills, knowledge, and virtues necessary for thinking historically.

Students who study history develop a deeper understanding of certain aspects of the past and are able to think critically regarding issues surrounding teaching and writing history specifically as Christians. Our department offers both a major and minor in history and a concentration in art history to achieve these goals.

Graduate Outcomes

A degree in history leads to vocations in teaching, journalism, law, government service, pastoral ministry, academic scholarship, business, architecture history, and a host of other fields that benefit from a strong foundation in research skills, writing aptitude, and general training in the liberal arts.

Job Outcomes for Covenant History Majors:

President, Covenant College
Professor of History, Kennesaw State University
Legislative Correspondent, US House of Representatives
Executive Director, Stillhouse Foundation
Associate Attorney, Carlock, Copeland & Stair, LLP
Associate Editor, Agricultural History Journal
Immigration Attorney, The Door
History Teacher, Chattanooga Christian School

Alumni Graduate Schools:

Georgetown University
University of St. Andrews
University of Georgia
Case Western University
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Westminster Seminary California
Columbia Law School
University of Georgia School of Law

Sam West ’19

Riley Shannon ’20

W. Tom Okie ’02

Hannah Weichbrodt ’13

We are in the business of training students who are both serious minded and engaged in culture, and striving in these things to be faithful to God.

Jay Green

Professor of History

Programs & Features

The history department offers a history major along with an optional art history concentration.

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Many majors across other disciplines can benefit from a history minor.

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Students interested in teaching history for grades 6-12 can complete a BA degree with a major in history and then enroll in the one-year Master of Arts in Teaching at Covenant College. It is recommended that the Education Minor be completed.

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HIS 321 History of Modern Japan
HIS 328 Developing World Since 1945
HIS 349 American Urban History
HIS 352 History and Culture of African Americans since 1865
ART 370 History and Theory of Photography
HIS 399 Historiography

“Freedom Summer Revisited: A Comparison of Elite Activist Networks in the 1964-65 Mississippi Voter-Registration Movement”
“The Pocaiti in Romania under Communist Rule 1946-1989”
“The Durham Mines and the Convict Lease System: The Devaluation of Life and Inhumane Conditions in a Georgia Convict Camp”

Guided Capstone Requirements

Jasper Reynolds Public Relations
Heritage Foundation
The American Enterprise Institute
Research assistant, Chattanooga Times Free Press
Congressional intern, Office of US Congressman
International Justice Mission, South Asia

Meet the History Faculty

Alicia Jackson Associate Professor of History

Jay Green Professor of History

Paul Morton Professor of History

Richard Follett Professor of History

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