Chair: Maria Höhn;

Professors: Nancy Bisaha^a, Robert K. Brigham, Sumita Choudhury, Miriam Cohen, Rebecca Edwards, Maria Höhn, James Merrell, Lydia Murdoch^ab, Ismail O. D. Rashid;

Associate Professors: Quincy T. Mills, Leslie Scott Offutt, Michaela Pohl^b, Joshua Schreier;

Assistant Professor: Julie E. Hughes^b;

Post Doctoral Fellow: Nianshen Song.

^a On leave 2015/16, first semester
^b On leave 2015/16, second semester

^ab On leave 2015/16

Advisers: The department.

Programs

Major

• •  History Major

Correlate Sequence in History

• •  History Correlate Sequence

Courses

History: I. Introductory

• •  HIST 101 - Martin Luther King Jr.
• •  HIST 103 - Indo-Islamic Kingdoms/Cultures
• •  HIST 108 - International Human Rights
• •  HIST 116 - The Dark Ages
• •  HIST 117 - High Middle Ages, 950-1300
• •  HIST 121 - Readings in Modern European History
• •  HIST 122 - Encounters in Modern East Asia
• •  HIST 123 - Europe at the Crossroads, 1500-1789
• •  HIST 124 - Europe 1945
• •  HIST 125 - Infamy on Trial: Famous Trials in Early Modern Europe
• •  HIST 126 - Terrorism in Russia and Eurasia
• •  HIST 128 - Europe 1945 - Rethinking History
• •  HIST 132 - Globalization in Historical Perspective, 1850 to the Present
• •  HIST 141 - Tradition, History and the African Experience
• •  HIST 143 - Russia, Ukraine, and the Steppe
• •  HIST 151 - British History: James I (1603) to the Great War
• •  HIST 160 - American Moments: Rediscovering U.S. History
• •  HIST 161 - From Gold Rush to Dust Bowl: Writing the American Frontier
• •  HIST 162 - Envisioning Latin America
• •  HIST 164 - Latin American History ‘through the lens’
• •  HIST 174 - The Emergence of the Modern Middle East
• •  HIST 175 - Mandela: Race, Resistance and Renaissance in South Africa

History: II. Intermediate

• •  HIST 204 - Independent India: 1947-1990s
• •  HIST 208 - Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy Since 1945
• •  HIST 214 - The Roots of the Palestine-Israel Conflict
• •  HIST 216 - History of the Ancient Greeks
• •  HIST 217 - History of the Ancient Romans
• •  HIST 218 - The Crusades, 1095-1291
• •  HIST 224 - Wars in 20th Century East Asia
• •  HIST 225 - Renaissance Italy
• •  HIST 226 - Northern Europe in the Renaissance, c. 1300-1550
• •  HIST 230 - From Tyranny to Terror: The Old Regime and the French Revolution
• •  HIST 231 - France and its “Others”
• •  HIST 232 - France/North Africa: from Corsairs to post-Colonialism
• •  HIST 235 - Ending Deadly Conflict
• •  HIST 236 - Germany, 1740-1918
• •  HIST 237 - Germany, 1918-1990
• •  HIST 242 - Russia and the Steppe to 1800
• •  HIST 243 - Russia and the Soviet Union, 1861-2000
• •  HIST 251 - A History of American Foreign Relations
• •  HIST 252 - Imagining India, 1707-1947
• •  HIST 253 - The Jungle in Indian History
• •  HIST 254 - Victorian Britain
• •  HIST 255 - The British Empire
• •  HIST 259 - The History of the Family in Early Modern Europe
• •  HIST 260 - Sex & Reproduction in 19th Century United States: Before Margaret Sanger
• •  HIST 261 - Women in 20th Century America
• •  HIST 262 - Contesting Colonialism: Latin America 1450 - 1750
• •  HIST 263 - From Colony to Nation: Latin America in the Nineteenth Century
• •  HIST 264 - The Revolutionary Option? Latin America in the Twentieth Century
• •  HIST 265 - African American History to 1865
• •  HIST 267 - African American History, 1865-Present
• •  HIST 270 - The Black Power Movement
• •  HIST 271 - Perspectives on the African Past: Africa Before 1800
• •  HIST 272 - Modern African History
• •  HIST 274 - Beyond Jamestown and Plymouth Rock: Revisiting, Revising, and Reviving Early America
• •  HIST 275 - U.S. History’s Greatest Mystery: Revolutionary America, 1750-1830
• •  HIST 276 - Democracy in America? U.S. Politics and Power, 1828-1896
• •  HIST 277 - The Making of the “American Century”: 1890-1945
• •  HIST 278 - Cold War America
• •  HIST 279 - The Viet Nam War
• •  HIST 283 - U.S. Consumer Culture
• •  HIST 290 - Field Work
• •  HIST 297 - Readings In History
• •  HIST 298 - Independent Work

History: III. Advanced

• •  HIST 300 - Thesis Preparation: Sources, Methods, and Interpretations
• •  HIST 301 - Senior Thesis
• •  HIST 302 - Senior Thesis
• •  HIST 304 - Approaching the Taj Mahal
• •  HIST 305 - People and Other Animals in India
• •  HIST 308 - Humanitarian Intervention
• •  HIST 316 - Constantinople/Istanbul: 1453
• •  HIST 326 - Machiavelli: Power and Politics
• •  HIST 332 - Dangerous Ideas: Challenging Authority in Eighteenth-Century France
• •  HIST 337 - The Rise and Fall of Nazi Germany
• •  HIST 338 - German-American Encounters since WW I
• •  HIST 342 - Stalinism
• •  HIST 343 - Youth in Russia, 1880-Present
• •  HIST 351 - Problems in U.S. Foreign Policy
• •  HIST 355 - Childhood and Children in Nineteenth-Century Britain
• •  HIST 357 - The First World War
• •  HIST 360 - Black Business and Social Movements in the Twentieth Century
• •  HIST 361 - Varieties of the Latin American Indian Experience
• •  HIST 362 - The Cuban Revolutions
• •  HIST 363 - Revolution and Conflict in Twentieth-Century Latin America
• •  HIST 365 - Race and the History of Jim Crow Segregation
• •  HIST 366 - American Encounters: Natives, Newcomers, and the Contest for a Continent
• •  HIST 367 - Peoples and Environments in the American West
• •  HIST 368 - American Portrait: The United States c. 1830
• •  HIST 369 - Social Citizenship in an Urban Age
• •  HIST 373 - Slavery and Abolition in Africa
• •  HIST 374 - The African Diaspora
• •  HIST 375 - Years of Disunion: The U.S. Civil War
• •  HIST 381 - Love and Death in Tokugawa Japan, 1603-1868
• •  HIST 382 - Marie-Antoinette
• •  HIST 385 - Colonialism, Resistance, and Knowledge in Modern Middle Eastern History
• •  HIST 386 - Central Asia and the Caucasus: Nation Building and Human Rights
• •  HIST 389 - Constructing China from Beyond
• •  HIST 399 - Senior Independent Work