MA History (US History)

This pathway gives students the opportunity to study the breadth of United States history from before the nation’s founding to the twenty-first century’s ‘War on Terror’.

Throughout your study you will encounter the United States within its global context. From the initial contact between settlers and sovereign Indigenous nations, through the rise of racial slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow to the US empire, the Black Freedom Struggle, the Cold War and Vietnam, and the end of the American Century.

Each of these topics are covered through a range of methods that include political, social, cultural, and environmental histories alongside the lenses of settler colonialism, racial capitalism, and technology and mobility studies.

At Birmingham, Postgraduate Taught and Postgraduate Research students also have the opportunity to learn graduate academic languages free of charge, to support your studies.