Phillips Exeter Academy

History

How you'll explore history at Exeter

We won’t only read texts. We’ll listen to podcasts. We’ll watch films, whether it’s a professionally produced documentary or a quick clip of a primary-source video — we’re using a lot of different types of materials to help us enrich our understanding of the past.

Betty Luther Hillman, chair of the Department of History

Academy Building

The historic building is home to several departments and Assembly Hall.

Explore History Courses

With our extensive History courses, you'll learn how the past has helped shape the present.

Featured Courses
HIS504

Europe Since 1945

Once the region of geopolitical domination, Europe after World War II was forced to rebuild and redefine its place in a rapidly shifting world.

 

HIS202

Peoples and Cultures of the Modern World

This course examines people who live in the developing world and the impact of modernization and industrialization on their ways of life.

 

HIS308

Precolonial Africa

This course introduces students to the complexity and dynamism of the African past, from antiquity to the dawn of the 20th century.

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