The Ph.D. Program in History of the City University of New York is a major center for research and graduate training in a wide array of fields of historical inquiry, ranging from ancient to contemporary times and covering Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, and East Asia.  It has over one-hundred-and-twenty-five students, from all over the United States and other countries.  Its distinguished faculty of over seventy historians prides itself on its close involvement with students.  The program stresses training in primary research and encourages interdisciplinary study.  Our location in midtown Manhattan enables our students to take advantage of the rich resources for historical research in the area, including the collections at the nearby New York Public Library.  Students are supported by a variety of forms of financial aid and have broad opportunities to teach at the CUNY undergraduate colleges.  Graduates of the program teach in colleges and universities across the country and abroad and work in archives, publishing houses, and public history positions. 

February 12th 2008 Graduate Center Historian James Oakes Wins 2008 Lincoln Prize for The Radical and the Republican The Lincoln Prize, one of the most generous and prestigious awards in the field of American History, will be awarded to James Oakes, a professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Read More...