History and Social Science
The history and social sciences program at The Hill is designed to introduce students to both the stories of the past and the practice of history as an intellectual discipline.
The Case Method Project at The Hill
In 2018, McNally Chair of History and Social Sciences and Senior Master Teacher of History and Social Sciences Daniel McMains ’98 started teaching his history classes at Hill in a new way using the Case Method Project. This method was originally developed at Harvard Business School, which uses case-based teaching in its graduate-level classes. At Hill, all honors-level U.S. history classes are are completely case-based.
Currently, Mr. McMains is one of only 300 high school teachers in the country using Harvard cases in their classes. However, he was recently recognized by the Case Method Project as the first teacher in its history to have taught 50 case studies.
History and Social Sciences Courses:
- 20th Century History
- World History (Honors option)
- World History/Modern Europe
- World History/Middle East
- World History/Latin America
- Power and Identity in World History (Honors option)
- Economics
- Economics AP
- Advanced Economics (College Level)
- Psychology
- Psychology AP (College Level)
- U.S. and Comparative Government and Politics AP*
- Comparative Government and Politics AP*
- U.S. Government and Politics AP
- United States History
- United States History (Honors)
- United States History AP
- Social Justice (Honors)
- War Series (Honors option)
- History of the Civil War (Fall)
- History of the Second World War (Winter)
- History of Modern Counter Insurgency (Spring)
- History of Vietnam War (Spring)
- Advanced History Seminar (College Level)
- Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise