History Department

A Historical Overview of the Department of History:

The College of Education (formerly the High Teachers’ House) was established in 1923 AD and did not have a separate history department. Instead, the latter was within the social studies department until the early 1950s, when history was separated into an independent department.

1. Keeping pace with the movement of society through research and studies that contribute to providing practical solutions to society's problems, mainly by providing a model for another society that has faced the same problem, such as wars, epidemics, and social changes related to scientific progress.
2. Communicating with influential community institutions and symbols to ensure rapid and effective scientific application of any results reached by this or that study that relates to a phenomenon facing society with a historical extension.
3. The department sought to prepare teachers who specialized in history and were professionally and educationally qualified to teach in middle and middle schools, male and female teachers’ homes, and male and female teachers’ institutes.
4. Preparing academic talents qualified to teach in rival universities and colleges in ancient, medieval, Islamic, modern, and contemporary history disciplines.
5. Qualifying the department’s graduates in preliminary and postgraduate studies to prepare research, theses, and dissertations.
6. Highlighting Iraq's cultural and humanitarian role throughout its ancient history in human civilization and the importance of this factor in building and strengthening Iraq's present and future.
7. Utilizing history to better understand contemporary relations between peoples in a way that serves the goals of cooperation for peace, freedom, and progress.
8. Protecting the student against calls aimed at abandoning the national and Islamic heritage and emphasizing the reality of communication between the ancient and the present. This contributes to giving the nation its true identity.
9. Benefiting from peoples' experiences in overcoming the conditions of isolation they may have experienced throughout their history.
10. Continuous updating of scientific research tools through communication with international scientific research centers, such as scientifically distinguished universities and specialized research centers, participation in scientific meetings and research conferences, and subscription to scientifically influential scientific journals.

1. Every academic year is full of specialized scientific effort by a teacher or student, as teachers in the History Department publish scientific research in respected scientific journals. Many of them are in influential scientific journals, and students contribute to this effort, especially graduate students.
2. Some professors also write general methodological and historical books that supplement the department’s library and highlight the department’s impact in enriching the human historical library.
3. The Department of History holds scientific conferences periodically in the field of historical specialization, which go beyond the size of internal participation to the title of the international conference and in a way that contributes to joint scientific communication outside local borders.
4. Teachers participate in specialized scientific research at local and international conferences inside and outside Iraq.
5. The department regularly holds scientific events, such as workshops, seminars, panel discussions, and scientific lectures.
6. Participating in social and national events and holding scientific exhibitions.
7. Participating in improving the reality of the department and college through volunteer campaigns aimed at improving the surrounding environment within the college, which reflects positively on the academic life of teachers and students.