In the Service of Clio: Blog CLXXXII (182): "I Want My History TV!"

There is a new trend in the history business. A number of history departments are creating promotional videos for their programs. The purposes of these videos seem to vary a bit. I suspect most of them are used at things like freshmen orientation sessions or college nights at high schools where universities recruit students. Some do seem to be trying to attract undergraduates, but others seem to be selling their graduate programs. There are 60 departments represented below from universities in Canada, France, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sri Lanka, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Some of these videos are hanging on departmental websites, but most are embedded on Youtube.com or vimeo.com.

Regardless of their location, what they tell us is the public perception that the department would like to project to the outside world.

(Technical note: All of the embedded videos allow the viewer to expand to full screen. The ones from USC and Princeton are hanging off the server for Blogger and the viewer is limited to a small version. "In the Service of Clio" has added direct links to the websites where the original versions of these videos can be found and if the viewer wants to, they can expand to full screen.)

Department of History
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Department of History

Baylor University

Department of History

Brown University

Faculty of History

University of Cambridge

Department of History
Central Michigan University

Department of History
College of Charleston

Department of History
The Citadel

Department of History
Clemson University

Department of History
Colorado College

Department of History
Concordia College

Department of History
Durham University

Department of History
University of Delaware

Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
Erasmus University Rotterdam

Department of History
Georgia Southern University

Department of History

Harvard University

Department of History
Illinois Wesleyan University

Department of History
University of Kelaniya

School of History
University of Kent

Department of History
University of Kentucky

Department of History
University of Limerick

Department of Politics, History, and International Relations
Loughborough University

Department of History
University of Manchester

Department of History

Marquette University

Department of History
University of Memphis

Department of History
Messiah College

Department of History
Millsaps College

Department of History
Misericordia University

Department of History (1 of 2)
Mississippi State University

Department of History (2 of 2)
Mississippi State University

Department of History
University of Nevada, Reno

Department of History
University of New Brunswick

Department of History
North Carolina State University

Department of History
University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Department of History
University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Department of History
University of North Carolina at Pembroke

Department of History
Northern Michigan University

Department of History
Ohio University

Department of History

The Ohio State University

Department of History and Political Science
Oklahoma Christian University

Department of History
Oklahoma State University

Department of History

University of Ottawa