Archive for November, 2009

Allie Skjerven awarded Patricia Lindell Scholarship!

The History Department is pleased to announce that Allie Skjerven, senior History Major, has been awarded the 2010 Patricia Lindell Scholarship in the GAC library. This year’s project, to be carried out during Spring Semester 2010, will focus on how undergraduates utilize space in academic libraries.  Several academic libraries, most notably the University of Rochester […]

I Majored in History, Now What?

What can you do with a History major?  The answer may surprise you.  What would you like to do?  The History program at Gustavus prepares its majors to think historically.  Historical thinking involves skills that are crucial to thriving in our rapidly-changing global environment.  Among those skills are analysis of trends and causes-effects over time; interpretation […]