1964 colleges and universities in Anhui province were adjusted, and the history department was merged into the history department of Hefei Normal University. From 65438 to 0979, Anhui University rebuilt the Department of History on the basis of the Department of Politics, and successively set up majors such as history, archival science, archaeology and museum science. The Department of History now has professional teaching and research sections on ancient history of China, modern history of China, world history and archaeology, as well as academic research institutions such as Huaihe River Basin Social and Economic Research Center, Anhui Cultural Heritage Protection Research Center, Anhui Hu Shi Research Center and Chen Duxiu Research Center. There are also two school-level scientific research and innovation teams: regional socio-economic history, handed down literature and unearthed literature research. There are 4 1 staff, including 33 full-time teachers, including professors 13, associate professors 12, 8 lecturers, national talent project 1 staff, 2 reserve candidates for academic and scientific leaders, 2 provincial excellent teachers, and young and middle-aged backbone teachers from Anhui Province and Anhui University/kloc-. Other part-time teachers 18.

In terms of personnel training, the history department follows the development idea of "all-round training and teaching students in accordance with their aptitude", faces modernization, the world and the future, adopts a hierarchical personnel training mode of "based on specialty, diversified development, thick foundation and high quality", establishes a history teaching system from undergraduate, master to doctoral, and has post-doctoral mobile stations to train high-level scientific research talents. In order to meet the needs of the society and combine the characteristics and advantages of the discipline, the history department attaches importance to the cultivation of professional and research-oriented talents, and transports all kinds of talents at different levels to the society. There are 237 undergraduates and 233 postgraduates (including 22 doctoral students). In addition to offering professional courses such as history, archaeology and museology, they also undertake humanities and science and technology quality courses of the school, and relevant personnel also hold positions or undertake scientific research work in Huizhou Research Center and school departments.

With the pace of 2 1 1 project construction, the scientific research achievements of history department are increasingly prominent. Among the history departments of more than 200 universities in China, the ranking of the history department of our school has gradually increased. He has published more than 60 academic monographs on history, archaeology and related disciplines, and published more than 60 papers 1000 in professional journals such as Historical Studies, China Historical Studies, World History, Historical Studies and Historical Theory Studies. He has successively undertaken the National Social Science Fund Project 18, of which 4 projects were approved for hosting in 20 12, and more than 60 sub-projects, projects entrusted by ministries and commissions and other projects of the National History Compilation Project. The History of Economic Development in Huaihe River Basin, the History of Economic Development in Modern Huaihe River Basin and the Study of Huizhou Clans won the first prize and honorary prize in Anhui Social Science, which formed characteristics and advantages in Huizhou studies, the history and culture of Huaihe River Basin, modern Anhui people and the study of historical documents. The Department of History also edits and publishes professional academic journals such as History of Anda University, Hu Shi Studies, Chen Duxiu Studies and Hui Studies.