WordNet
n. the academic department responsible for teaching history [syn: department of history]
Usage examples of "history department".
The Israeli military historian Aryeh Yitzhaki, who worked in the army's history department after the war, said he and other officers collected testimony from dozens of soldiers who admitted killing POWs.
Finally, I must thank Professor David Herbert Donald of Harvard's History Department not only for his books on Lincoln and Herndon and on Charles Sumner, but for his patient reading -- and correction -- of the manuscript.
Keep those MLA style sheets handy-particularly if you're dealing with the History Department.
Having explained this, he left the stall, a bit ruffled still at the idea that anyone could be uninterested in what after all was a historic event (he was himself a new instructor in the History Department), and went to give instruction to respectfuller students.
It was listed as history, not science or religion, and they chose one of the oldest and stodgiest white male members of the history department to teach it.
He was a good family man, at least according to a character witness, the Chairman of the History Department where he taught.
Professor John Crowley, once head of the history department at Stanford, now the nominal leader of the colony, sat with Flannery and Jean Dobbs, examining the suppurating arm of a ten-year-old boy.