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The Department of History at Iowa State University offers a major and minor in history to prepare students for careers in history, teacher and _____. Through your studies, you will travel across many centuries in a panorama of places and through a variety of methological, theoretical, comparative, and ideological lenses. Historians research, write, present information, and explain complex topics in language accessible to anyone who can read. Grapple with questions like, who are we and how did we develop into this type of society? How and why have human identities developed as they did? From wars and monarchs to factories and trades, from teatime and tee times to weapons and fashions, you will research, write, discuss, and learn about the massive range of human experience.