The Department of History sorts out historical evolution context from multiple time periods and regional perspectives, focusing on historical event textual research, historical cultural inheritance and social historical development law summary.

Its main research directions include ancient historical documents sorting, modern social historical changes, regional cultural history and diplomatic history research. It advocates respecting historical materials, seeking truth from facts and exploring objective historical development laws.
The department has rich historical literature resources, and regularly carries out historical culture popularization and field historical relic investigation activities. It provides professional talent training and academic research support for historical research, cultural publicity, cultural relic management and other industries.
Department of History Website(https://history.wfu.edu/)