Master of Arts in History

Offered through a formal collaboration among the history departments of UMass Amherst and Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges, the graduate program in history allows for broad grounding as well as deep specialization. You’ll select a major area of concentration—generally defined by a time and place (e.g., the United States before the Civil War)—and pursue study in two additional fields that explore other parts of the world and/or thematic areas like public history, cultural history, and political history. This program is particularly suited to those with interests in women’s history, public history, Latin American history, the history of the United States, European history, the history of science and technology, and the history of the Pacific world.