Programs and Special Opportunities

History Programs at Gettysburg College

A variety of special opportunities for history majors can significantly enrich a student's undergraduate experience. The Civil War Institute, directed by a member of the history faculty, provides a number of students with work related to the Institute's summer program. Civil War Era Studies offers The Gettysburg Semester and the Minor in the Civil War Era.

Each year a few seniors in the Eisenhower seminar are selected to do a portion of their research at the Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kansas. The Dorothy and Robert Bloom Award enables selected seniors in other seminars to work in libraries and archives at some distance from Gettysburg.

Each year many History majors take the opportunity to study abroad through the Gettysburg College Study Abroad Program.

Organizations and Clubs

• Civil War Club
• Phi Alpha Theta (Omega chapter) -- national history honors fraternity