• To encourage students’ interest in history.
• To unite students of different disciplines through their interest in history.
• To bring quality extracurricular events to the Monmouth College Student Body.
• To create an environment that fosters free and open discourse between faculty and the student body.

During the 2006-2007 academic year our activities have included:

• Springfield, Illinois, field trip to visit the Lincoln Museum and Library.
• A guest lecture by Monmouth Professor Amy de Farias entitled, "Tales of Chocolate: From the New World to the Old and Back."
• A guest lecture by Monmouth History Department Alumnus and Director of the National Negro Baseball Hall of Fame in Kansas City Raymond Doswell, entitled, "100 Years of Black Baseball: 1860 to 1960."
• Movie Night screenings of Enemy at the Gates, Baseball: National Pastime, and Battle for Algiers in the Stockdale Student Center where students can bring their supper tray into the room to watch the movie.