历史系提供选择性的中型博士学位。该计划结合了在多个地理和时间顺序方面的培训，并着重于跨领域的比较，主题和跨学科研究。我们为历史学术和历史教学提供了严格的准备。我们在一个支持性的大学学院社区中这样做—在这种环境中，学生与领导机构一起工作，并鼓励彼此学习。历史学博士候选人与教职员工密切协商，使用我们灵活的考试结构来塑造他们的特定研究领域，将特定时间和地点的集中精力与跨地区和理论的兴趣融合在一起，并将历史与其他联系起来学科。该系的学术影响力因紧密的联系而大大扩大，包括与埃默里其他系，计划和学校（如非裔美国人研究
Emory has a thriving, nationally recognized doctoral program in U.S. history with 12 faculty members and 7 associated faculty. US History students form close mentoring relationships with faculty amid a lively intellectual community of graduate students from many different fields within the history department, as well as within the larger interdisciplinary community in the Laney Graduate School. <br><br>Students admitted to the U.S. history program receive rigorous and comprehensive training in U.S. history from the colonial period through the twentieth century as well as in their chosen fields of specialization. The program has strengths in U.S. slavery and emancipation, race, ethnicity, and immigration, African American history, gender and sexuality, Civil Rights history, U.S. Religious History, and Modern Conservatism. Comparable strengths in Latin American and African History support the investigation of comparative, diasporic, and transnational histories as well.