Berry College History Department

05/10/2026

It’s graduation weekend! Good luck to all our students ❤️❤️❤️

04/11/2026

History honors awardees: Kate Powell, Hannah McDaniel, Abigail Barnes, and Hannah Smith. Also a photo of Abby Barnes giving a presentation on “The Ideal Child” at the Student Scholarship Symposium.

04/08/2026

I don't have the heart to tell them that this isn't how history books become "VERY large." I do encourage donations, however, for Berry's first Day of Giving! Link: https://dayofgiving.alwaysberry.com/pages/home

02/20/2026

Notebooklm & Heygen - helped me highlight the department's really cool History Plus program.

02/20/2026

Proud of History majors' Ryleigh Corcoran and Emma Smith.

01/30/2026

Berry History Major Hannah McDaniel was featured in the Alumni Accent. https://berry.edu/articles/stories/2025/history-education
Berry Alumni Georgia State Senate

01/21/2026

The history department's January 2026 newsletter.

01/10/2026

Berry history alum, Zach Darling, leading Savannah Christian basketball team to success.

In his fourth season leading the Savannah Christian boys program, Zach Darling has his Raider squad playing an impressive brand of basketball.

12/07/2025

Phi Alpha Theta’s holiday party decorating Christmas cookies.

11/21/2025

This past August, a Berry College professor participated in a research workshop at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

Professor of History Matthew G. Stanard worked alongside scholars from the U.S., Poland, Israel, Ukraine, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Italy for the Jacob and Yetta Gelman International Research Workshop on N**i Propaganda. The program lasted two weeks. Their work included exhibit tours, presenting their own research, and the examination of questions surrounding propaganda and N**i persecution.

“The U.S. Holocaust Museum’s Mandel Center does extraordinary and important work, and it was an incredible opportunity to lead this workshop alongside Dr. Stanislovas Stasiulis [of the Lithuanian Institute of History],” Stanard said. “Delving into the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s archives and hearing about the research projects of such a diverse group of engaged international scholars reminded me of the value of the discipline of history. We do not know what we know about the past by some magic. It takes hard work, time, debate, reflection, and funding to uncover and understand our shared history, including its most horrifying chapters.”

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is America’s national institution for the documentation, analysis, and understanding of the history of the Holocaust. It serves as the nation’s memorial to the millions of people who were murdered in the Holocaust.

Stanard teaches history at Berry and serves as the president of the French Colonial Historical Society. He earned his B.A. from Wake Forest University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Indiana University-Bloomington. He is an established author and researcher.