History
It’s a paradox: as a history major at McDaniel, you’ll spend countless hours exploring and investigating things that happened long ago, but you’ll also be developing a skillset—an instinct for research and critical reading, a knack for writing precisely and persuasively, the good judgment required to summarize large volumes of information—that’s more coveted in today’s workplace than ever before.
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Carroll County, Washington, D.C., Baltimore
The McDaniel Commitment in Action
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Meet a Green Terror Class of 2024: Sydney Lewis English and History
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Undergraduate Research Senior’s research uncovers missing link in Native American nation’s history Applying Your Knowledge
Deep into a summer of research, senior Josh Irvin found the proverbial needle in a haystack — the one document, a letter written in 1805 by Revolutionary War general Jeremiah Slade, that detailed the deal that enabled the Tuscarora Indian nation to sell their reservation lands in North Carolina.
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