PhD US History

United States history is a diverse field of study that encompasses a growing number of research approaches and specialty areas, and the University of North Texas stands at the head of these dynamic transformations.

UNT's enduring and distinguished reputations in the histories of Texas and the southwestern borderlands, in military history and in oral history have been augmented in the 21st century with new strengths in American social and cultural history that mark UNT as a leader in the rapidly advancing fields of race and ethnic studies, gender and sexuality, food and the body, and environmental history.

Areas of study for doctoral students:

1. Chronological

• Colonial and Revolutionary
• Early national
• Civil War and Reconstruction
• Late 19th- and early 20th-century
• 20th century

2. Topical

• Old South
• New South
• American West
• Spanish and French borderlands
• Texas
• Military
• Women and gender
• African American
• Mexican American
• Local