United States 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 twenty-first 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. Our doctoral students in United States history research and teach a wide array of topics and they produce cutting-edge scholarship, winning awards and accolades that elevate our program over other institutions.

1. Chronological Areas of Study

• Colonial and Revolutionary
  (Chet; Todd)
• Early National
  (Chet; McCaslin; Todd; Torget)
• Civil War and Reconstruction
  (McCaslin; Mendoza; Torget)
• Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century
  (Mendoza; Moye; Moran; Pomerleau; Torget; Wallach; Wise)
• Twentieth Century
  (Mendoza; Moye; Moran; Phelps; Wallach; Wise)

2. Topical

• Old South
  (Todd; Torget)
• New South
  (Moye; Phelps; Wallach)
• American West
  (Wise)
• Spanish and French Borderlands
  (Torget)
• Texas
  (McCaslin; Mendoza; Phelps; Torget)
• Military
  (Chet; McCaslin; Mendoza)
• Women's History
  (Moran)
• Gender and Sexuality
  (Moran; Phelps)
• African American
  (Moye; Todd; Wallach)
• Mexican American
  (Mendoza)
• Local
  (Moye; Phelps; Torget)