"Beijing Normal University" for short is a university directly under the central government in the history discipline of national key universities directly under the Ministry of Education. It is one of the earliest departments of Beijing Normal University, and evolved from the second-class branch of Shi Jing University Hall founded by 1902. In March 2006, Beijing Normal University, Department of History and Historical Studies.
The Institute was merged into the School of History of Beijing Normal University. The merged School of History has a complete range of disciplines and a strong faculty. This school has a full range of postgraduate education disciplines and a strong faculty. It is one of the units that set up a postdoctoral mobile station in history and obtained the right to confer a doctorate in history. There are 6 doctoral programs, 8 master programs, 2 doctoral supervisors and 2 master supervisors.