The department was opened in 1993 at the Gharyan College of Education (formerly), where an elite group of professors assumed the task of teaching within the department, and the History Department became one of the basic departments in the College of Arts, in which the student, after completing the academic courses, obtains a bachelor’s degree in history, as the first batch graduated in the year 1997 AD, with 40 male and female students, most of whom joined the educational staff, and some of whom obtained master’s and doctoral degrees.