What's a school thats big on history or has a big history dept.

So the OP wouldn’t “like a college with an open curriculum?” (My words.) I didn’t suggest that colleges of this type should be the only ones @FreeSAMple1 should consider.

What you’ve written about colleges with distribution requirements is not universal. At Reed, for example, I think a student would be required to take a class in biology, chemistry or physics. This could force a student to take either a redundant class or a more advanced class that may be both outside of their interests and superfluous.